Bamboo Island

We've had a lazy few days in Sihanoukville, drinking lots of buckets, topping up our tans and playing in the swimming pool. Nikki, Joel and I having a sunset swim.
We've spend the past five days with Chris and Alastair so it's been lots of fun. Chris is officially the funniest person we have ever met so we've had more than a few laughs. Joel has left us in the care of the two boys (probably not a great idea as that just means bigger buckets and more beer towers!) He's left us to spend ten days in Vietnam then we'll meet up with him again in North Laos.

Today we went on a boat trip to Bamboo Island, a beautiful secluded island near Sihanoukville. The beach was very quiet and relaxed here, so we just chilled and sunbathed the whole afternoon, perfect!

Bamboo Island

We wanted to stay for sunset but unfortunately there was a storm heading our way. It was a pretty scary ride home as our little wooden boat got caught up in the massive thunderstorm! The driver couldn't even see were we were going, but we managed to get back safe and sound, soaking wet and cold. (Nikki was very unhappy about this!)

After two days back in the world of employment, we decided that due to Nikki's horrific hangovers and my dodgy kidneys, that 3weeks of drinking buckets non-stop wasn't really going to work for us! So we basically quit before we started. It was a good idea at the time and i'm sure it would be fun, but I think it would proabably kill one of us.

We're spending a couple more days here before we head north, to Four Thousand Island in Laos.

xxx