Sihanoukville

I'm in Sihanoukville now - and can you believe it but this is the last place I'm visiting in Cambodia before returning to Phnom Penh!  Where has the time gone???

My day started today (still in Kampot) to beautiful sunny skies so I decided to eat breakfast at the hotel - overlooking the river.

And then it was travel time - to Sihanoukville.
Sihanoukville is located on the coast in Cambodia and it has a much different look and feel than the other towns I've been to.  Sihanoukville was constructed as a port city in the late 1950's and as such it is much newer, and slightly more "urban" than other Cambodian provincial towns.
In it's short life Sihanoukville has been both prosperous and destroyed - and it suffered a great deal during both the American/Vietnam conflict and during the Khmer Rouge regime.

Nowadays, despite being Cambodia's premier beach town it is still a very fledging industry... but it has great white, sand beaches and incredibly warm waters in the Gulf of Thailand.   And amazing sunsets too!