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well we hav left vietnam behind and it looks like we have left the sunshine behind too!!!! we are currently in the middle of torrential rain that hasnt stopped for 4 days and there is thunder and lightning all day and night!! we are hoping that it is the remnants of the typhoon that has hit china and that this isnt the expected weather for the rest of our trip :o( we have heard from some friends that it is also raining in thailand so it is more than possible that my long wished for tan is just a dream and that i will be the same old pale me when i return to good old blighty in july!! we were in phnom penh, the capital of cambodia for one night then we headed over to a small sleepy town called Kampot which was reall nice. we spent our first night eating on the balcony of our guesthouse watching a dry electrical storm which was really cool!! we then went to a beach (which was too dirty to swim in), some bat caves and some rapids which we swam in. it was a great day and the sun was so hot that i went a bit pink!! the next day we booked to go on a mountain trek in the bokor national park but the weather closed in and it rained all day so although we still went up there in the 4x4 truck we didnt get to trek, we just looked around. there were 8 of us in the back of this openbacked truck and me an patrick were standing up at the front nearest the actual cab of the truck. the track to get up to the to of the mountain was really really bumpy and the trees were really closed in and very much like jungle. there were lots of low branches that we had to keep ducking and every so often we would see a huge spider in its web at the side. it was cool until one of the webs was accross the path of the truck and there was no way that we could avoid it so i broke the web with my head and had a massive black and yellow spider crawling across my hood!!! i have never screamed so much in my life!!! the othersmanaged to get it off and stamp on it but i was still shaking like a big girls blouse!!!! i decided to sit down after that as i have never been so scared in my life....until it happened again!!!! patrick broke the web but it still landed on me!!!!!! it was a good day after that except for the rain!! we moved on to Sihanoukville yesterday but havnt seen any of it yet because of the rain!! we may move on to thailand sooner than expected if it keeps up but as it stands we will head to bangkok on the 28th. take care and ill keep you updated on who is winning at cards as that seems to be all we will be doing for the next few days!!!!! maybe now is the time to take up alcoholism!!!!
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