waterfalls and beaches

Dear travel journal,
This morning we woke up in our mosquito nets, listening to the roosters and animals running around outside. First thing we noticed was that blake hadnt come to bed. We found him asleep on a matt under the house with the locals. Lol. After getting packed and sorted we walked the 2.5kms back to the community centre and had some breaky and then headed off on our morning hike. Jill and david got the ox cart half the way up which looked cool. It was literally just two massive oxen pulling a flat little wooden cart. We walked up to what the call the third waterfall (they have 1st, 2nd and 3rd waterfalls along the walk). It was a 6-7km round walk and was really nice and 3 of the dogs came with us the whole way which was pretty cool. The third waterfall was awesome - a small wooden bridge and ridge to walk on in places and it opened up onto the base of the waterfall which had massive rocks everywhere that we had to climb over to see it properly and there was spray going everywhwere but it was pretty cool. And the view over the mountains was pretty cool. Then we headed down to the second water fall, climbing under waterpipes, along rocks and over boulders to wear we could get changed and jumped in. The current at the base was a bit stronger then expected but once you made it to the bottom rocks it was quite easy to climb right up to the top. A man made ledge had been concreted in along the width of the fall and we just swam around and the boys climbed a tree and sat in the falls and relaxed. It was awesome. Then we headed back to the community centre, got our stuff and jumped back on the bus to sihanoukville. After a few hours we fell out of the bus and checked into the hotel, which is quite swish really. Although the properties just next door which we can see from our balcony clearly show their is still a poor side to this country. But it was quite nice and you could just see the beach over all the buildings. Once sorted we met in the lobby and walked down to a restaraunt on the beach front. Past the jetty and bars and tuk tuks and people playing in the beach. There was people and music and people selling things all up the beach bath. It was very cool. And with the moon still big tonight and the last night of the festival it was quite cool. Once settled into the table (which was actually in the sand) we had drinks and chatted and watched an amazing sunset and ate dinner and as it got dark people had a few drinks and the music got louder and we watched the fireworks going off and laterns being released up and down the beach. Then slowly we all headed back to the hotel, leaving just euan and felix to do their thing and headed to bed.Meer informatie