We caught up with Will, Emma and co back at the hostel in Phnom Penh and after a look through our shedules decided to do a trip south to the coast and a bit of beach time before templing it up in Siem Reap.
We (meaning me and Lauren) had done Phnom Penh the day i`d arrived and decided an extra day relaxing and exploring in Kampot would be time better spent before joining up with everyone the day after.
I`ve got to mention our meal together at FRIENDS that same night. It was a charity based restaurant with all the money going to the street kids and orphans who where then trained to be the chefs at the restaurants. A bit like what Jamie Oliver did in the UK, but the food was amazing and was also the last time our considerably large group would be together...anyway
The extra day allowed us to rent bikes once again and explore the area between Kampot and Kep, i woke up on the wrong side of bed this day as things were annoying me much quicker than usual. The roads were really bad as well, it was basically off-roading on road bikes and then to top everything off i was in what is quite possibly the most pitiful biking accident of all time!
I`d pulled into this pagoda for a quick look, there was nothing really there and i was about to exit until this monk came running over saying something to me, i thought i`d hang around and see what he had to say but as he made it to my bike he put his hand out to rest on the handle bar and ended up turning on my throttle... this as you`d imagine sent the bike forward, me sideways and left a nasty exhaust burn on my arm and a fair few cuts and bruises on my leg. Thank god there was a nice hammock and beach at Kep so i could just chill out and laugh at the fact that one of the most peaceful kinds of people in the world had just sent me skidding along the floor. oh well.
The next day and after re-joining with the now slightly depleted group we set off to rabbit island from Kep for a two night stay on this little deserted island. This would be my first island experience of the trip and i was excited at the prospect of doing nothing and have to say despite the lack of experience i performed it like a pro.
It also happened to be thanksgiving on one of the two days, and seeing as we now had an American in the ranks with Lauren, we held a somewhat shabby, slightly more drunken version of our own, turkey hats and roast chicken included.
After a few water fights and a stunning sunset the actual highlight of the time spent there was getting in the water after every light had gone out and swimming with these glow in the dark plankton, it sucks that i couldn`t get a photograph as words, especially my writing, could never do it justice, but it was basically like being in a disney film. Every hand stroke sent hundreds of these tiny glowing globes off in the same direction, it was stunning and hopefully i`ll get the chance to see it some more when scuba diving in Thailand.
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