We started the day off slowly with a well deserved sleep in to prepare for a tour around the beautiful Royal Palace of Cambodia. The Royal palace contained many extravagant temples and pagodas made of silver, gold and diamonds. The gardens surrounding the place were beautiful and well looked after, constantly being trimmed and nurtured by many gardeners. The Royal palace provided us with a great taste of how the Royal family of Cambodia live.
After the tour we made our way back to our hotel to pack, and we then set off on an estimated three hour bus trip to Kampot. Our road trip was cut short and soon resulted in much disaster for us and our previously happy bus driver. One hour into our journey to Kampot our beloved party bus decided that it didn’t want to go any further. We were 30 km’s away from Phnom Penh and over 100 km’s away from our intended destination.
We were stranded in the lush Cambodian countryside for a grand total of 3 hours. Our happy and chirpy driver went to work on his bus only to find out that it was beyond his mechanical capability, he was devastated as the bus was also his mobil home whilst working away from his family. We were all relieved when another bus arrived, we quickly transferred all our luggage to our new our bus, completing a smooth transition to then be well on our way.
We arrived at Veronica’s Kitchen for dinner at about 9:00pm where we all ate plenty of yummy Cambodian food. Feeling tired and with a full belly we eventually made it to Kampot Diamond Hotel at 10:00pm. We were all so keen for a good night sleep but no, no the blog was still to be done!, the three bloggers soldiered on and with the help off the legend himself Mr Walsh were able to write a ripper blog.
Today’s blog by – Jake Harrowell , Rachel Heath and Luca Micallessi
