Phnom Phen to Sihanokville, Cambodia

After leaving Siem Reap, we spent about 5 days in Phnom Phen (the capital). We visited the Royal Palace and the Silver Pagoda. But the Royal Palace is never open for tours, so we were stuck wandering around it and the Silver Pagoda was a bit of a let down. It has a sliver tiled floor of which each tile supposedly weighed 1 Kg. The tiles, except for a 20ft x 20ft patch, was covered with carpet. The area that was exposed was very tarnished and the tiles were lifting up around the edges so bad that they duct taped them together. The one place in Phnom Phen that was very interesting, although extremely sad, was S-21. That was a detention center use for torture and interrogation by the Khmer Rouge. The building was an old high school that they turned into a prison, so on the outside it looked eerily normal.
We are back at the beach. The sand here squeaks! We arrived on Saturday and it was busy. Many Cambodian that live in Phnom Phen come down for the weekends because it is only about a 3-4 hour drive. It has chilled out considerably since the weekend finished. So we have been 'busying' ourselves with relaxing on the sand and, at least for me, eating tons of seafood. There are women that roam the beach selling lobster and BBQ squid (which they actually cook in front of you) (picture to come). We got massages the other day done by blind Cambodians (they say the blind give the best massages) at a place called Seeing Hands which is actually an NGO that helps train people and get them started in the trade.
From here we are off to Bangkok!