I admit though, this post will be a bit more of a travel log than most of my other ones. I don't really mean it to be but I have no other way to really share with you what a great weekend I had! Don't worry, I'll employ my sharp wit to entertain you the whole time. HA! Not. The pictures you will see will be MUCH more entertaining than my silly ramblings. I assure you.
Well now, let us begin. Friday morning started off bright and early with an extremely exciting bus ride to a coastal city in the southwest part of the country called Koh Kong.
I believe this picture was taken while I was drifting in and out of sleep while listening to my girl Marina from "Marina and the Diamonds." Don't ask me how I found this position comfortable. Because I didn't. Six and a half hours of driving, kinked necks, and random stops for diahrrea ridden Cambodian men later, we arrived to Koh Kong.
How do we celebrate our arrival? We eat food.
Our resort had this pretty sweet restaurant built over the bay. You can't see it but our little dinner hut has stilts for legs and we have strange skinny fish swimming beneath us. This restaurant boasted the best crab in all of Koh Kong and while I didn't order it for myself, it was pretty bomb. Fun little tidbit, do you see how my poor long legs are being jammed up against my chest? That's because I had this little visitor in front of my chair.
Meet Pugnacious. I normally dislike pugs but this one made me smile more than twice. I mean, how could I reject that admittedly cute frying pan smashed face? He followed us around the resort like our own personal guard dog while he entertained us with his dog/pig identity crisis. Dan loved him the most by far and named him Pugnacious out of pure endearment.
Anyways, after dinner it was kayaking time.
So you'd think that we'd go kayaking to enjoy the picturesque scenery and glassy water right? Well, for some reason we decided to go visit some rather grotesque statues first. This is what I'm looking at in confusion in the above picture.
And apparently it was a good idea to get out of the boats and pose like the statues. Makes perfect sense, really. We all joked that we were the ideal subjects for a horror movie. Naive college students, in a foreign country, touching and making fun of creepy statues, statues come alive at night and brutally murder said students. It's perfect.
Moving on. I promise we did actually kayak with the aforementioned purpose of scenery and water viewing. And I'm glad we did to be honest because there were some very breathtaking and even spiritual moments as we paddled around the bay. They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but I don't even think a thousand words can describe the beauty of the sunset I was blessed to witness.
Gorgeous ain't it? We brought our vista-induced high with us into town to a delightful little restauraunt called Cafe Laurent where we satisfied our western food cravings by dining on pizza, french fries, and creme brulee. All while looking over the night darkened bay. We were really roughin' it.
After some classically Asian karaoke and a wonderful night's sleep, I had this nutritious breakfast.
Yes that is cartoned milk and yes we ate ceral out of the bag. Milo is a chocolate drink that is very heavenly so obviously the cereal form was equally delicious. I'm sure I looked super attractive as I fought with the bag to get cereal into my mouth while not geting milk all over me. And that was fun. I share this only because I promised certain individuals a look into Cambodian cuisine. I think that fulfills that promise for this post. Yes.
The biggest part of Koh Kong came from our trip to the Tatai Waterfalls. The journey consisted of a short van ride and calm but rather loud trip on a boat up a river to the falls.
The engine on that thing was unprecedentally loud and left our ears ringing for a good twenty minutes after it was shut off. It was totally worth it though, because we were met to this awesome sight as we neared out destination.
Obviously I wanted to jump right into the water and play in the falls. Except our guide played a mean trick on us and made up climb over some rocks to get there.
Clarissa obviously looks super thrilled at this trick. But believe me, it was all worth it.
With no further ado, pictures of the frolicking. And frolick we did do.
Obviously hated every second.
With all of our rabble-rousing, we doubtlessly worked up an appetite. Barbequed shrimp, chicken, and fish anyone?
But the day still wasn't over. We decided to visit the biggest Mangrove tree forest in all of Cambodia. Don't know what a Mangrove tree is? It's okay, I didn't either. Here's what they look like.
This forest tour resulted in us climbing a bunch of stairs so we could take in the beautiful Cambodia countryside around us. Have I mentioned that Cambodia is incredibly stunning? I don't think I have. Cambodia is incredibly stunning people.
Pictures really just don't do it justice. I wish you all could've seen it with me.
While I don't have pictures, we finished our evening by having a romantically candlelit dinner cruise and we ate while admiring cloud-lightning shows and fireflies that lit the trees like Christmas trees. It was all to much, really.
That pretty much all wraps it up. Please know I was not trying to brag or rub it in how wonderful my weekend was. In all honesty, I couldn't stop thinking about all of you back home and which friends and family would have loved each aspect of my trip, and how much I would've given to have you here experiencing it with me. A thousand words couldn't really convey how much I felt that way.
Life is good you guys.
Until next time.
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