Beautiful cambodia .. and more pictures

Bas Geertsema

Hi everyone!

Here a short message from Phnom-Penh, the capital of Cambodia. Sihanoukville, the beach-town in the south of Cambodia, turned out to be a really nice place, so I stayed there for five days together with an thai/cambodian girl that I met on the boat. After that I went 100 km eastwards to Kampot, where I did some sightseeing and travelled to an abandoned french colonial town (with hotel/casino/church) in Bokor national park. An eerie sight, knowing that the town has been used in the civil war by both the vietnamese and cambodian armies.

There I met two swedish guys, Jens and Richard, with whom I motorbiked the surroundings the next day (I learned to ride the motorbike from a local taxiguy in Sihanoukville). Today we went to Phnom-Penh by bus, as an intermediate station to stay one night before we go further to Siem Reap to visit the ancient and mighty Anchor Wat (a huge ancient temple).

Cambodia has really surprised me. The quit country, beautiful surroundings, nice people, great atmosphere and easy-going vibe suits me. Considering the terrible tragedies (vietnam war, cival war) that has happened here only 25-30 years ago, where millions of cambodian people perished, this amazes me even more.

I added pictures to the Thailand South album of Krabi and Koh Phang=ngang. And added a new album with pictures from Cambodia.

Finally .. I wish everybody a very happy christmas!!

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