A (very) quick trip to Sihanoukville: A blogger's review.

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A (very) quick trip to Sihanoukville: A blogger's review.

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From last month:
A Glance at Sihanoukville
I was traveling through the Cambodia and after visiting grand Angkor Wat temple complex, it was time for some beach time. We traveled by road for Sihanoukville from Siem Reap, it was a long and tiring journey. We reached Sihanoukville at late night and crashed in our hotel near Otres beach, which is little outside the city. Next morning we woke up early and went to the beach for sunrise. The sun rises from the opposite site of the sea so, the view is not really great but the beach was empty and clean. There was a garden area developed next to the beach and trees provided us a place to sit in shade...
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Went to Otres Market for breakfast? Doesn't sound quite right.
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Not over complete post :-)
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Another viewpoint; blogger meets a couple on the beach in Sihanoukville, decides the place is a s-hole:

Brides and Arseholes in Cambodia
September 11, 2017

It was 3am, and I’d been swaying to mindless chart music at a beach bar in Sihanoukville for far too long. When I’d arrived in the Cambodian town the previous day, I was sorely disappointed by what I had found. I’d read about pristine beaches dotted with local food stalls – a paradise unweathered by the noxious disease I help spread that is tourism. What I found, however, was a patch of dirt that had been denigrated into a pop-up glitter strip. The otherwise-bare landscape was crowded with Soviet-style hotels, and seedy bars lined the disposable nappy-riddled coastline, brimming with creepy old men and fat Russian families streaked with sunburn...
http://globalhobo.com.au/2017/09/11/bas ... noukville/
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Was that blog written by a 5yo?

"Today mommy took me to the Otres and I did a big poop."
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CEOCambodiaNews wrote: Mon Sep 11, 2017 3:25 pm Another viewpoint; blogger meets a couple on the beach in Sihanoukville, decides the place is a s-hole:

Brides and Arseholes in Cambodia
September 11, 2017

It was 3am, and I’d been swaying to mindless chart music at a beach bar in Sihanoukville for far too long. When I’d arrived in the Cambodian town the previous day, I was sorely disappointed by what I had found. I’d read about pristine beaches dotted with local food stalls – a paradise unweathered by the noxious disease I help spread that is tourism. What I found, however, was a patch of dirt that had been denigrated into a pop-up glitter strip. The otherwise-bare landscape was crowded with Soviet-style hotels, and seedy bars lined the disposable nappy-riddled coastline, brimming with creepy old men and fat Russian families streaked with sunburn...
http://globalhobo.com.au/2017/09/11/bas ... noukville/

Quite true. Some people are trying to oversell Sihanouk for their own benefit when it actually really look like a dump compared to most Thailand beaches. Even Pattaya is a lot better.

We can like Cambodia for some reasons, but it's good to tell the truth sometimes !
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I spent six weeks in Sihanoukville this summer and am not keen to return. Otres especially was a dusty, muddy 'shit hole' full of stoned idiots (the ONLY place I've ever been where you simultaneously breathe clouds of choking dust while mired in thick, red mud).
You could be next.
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The same thing happened in Koh Samui and Pattaya in the mid to late 90s. Dust, construction, dirt, noise etc etc. Now look at it.
You can't stand in the way of progress, but you can bitch about it.

15 years time Otres will be a major beach resort. The Chinese will have gone and it'll be the new rich, maybe Russians or Indians. Who knows.
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bangkokhooker wrote: Tue Sep 12, 2017 4:09 pm The same thing happened in Koh Samui and Pattaya in the mid to late 90s. Dust, construction, dirt, noise etc etc. Now look at it.
You can't stand in the way of progress, but you can bitch about it.

15 years time Otres will be a major beach resort. The Chinese will have gone and it'll be the new rich, maybe Russians or Indians. Who knows.
No where near the same. And who is it who owns Pattaya.
Always "hope" but never "expect".
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AndyKK wrote: Tue Sep 12, 2017 5:09 pm
bangkokhooker wrote: Tue Sep 12, 2017 4:09 pm The same thing happened in Koh Samui and Pattaya in the mid to late 90s. Dust, construction, dirt, noise etc etc. Now look at it.
You can't stand in the way of progress, but you can bitch about it.

15 years time Otres will be a major beach resort. The Chinese will have gone and it'll be the new rich, maybe Russians or Indians. Who knows.
No where near the same. And who is it who owns Pattaya.
Never been to Pattaya (and don't intend to) so you may be rigght about that but I was in Samui from 93 till about 2002 and it was a shithole. Mabe not as many big casinos but still.

My point is that it is time for Cambodia to progress, It is no longer a sleepy backwater country. Onward and upward!
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