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So we headed down after our mammoth motorbike ride to some R & R on the Si Phan Don, or Four Thousand Islands. Don Det was recommended to us by Mikey and Leigh so only a couple of hours on the minivan, and a short boat ride and we were there. We arrived onto a completely different side of the island than we had expected and so for the whole day thought we were on a completely different side of the island (there are only two sides on the tiny island, it's not hard to figure out but we seemed to manage to confuse ourselves).
We set up camp in a little bamboo hut over the river with balcony and matching hammocks, and spent the next four days not moving much at all. We both got through a fair amount of reading, and a few packets of Oreos. Not a bad habit to have on this island as Mr. and Mrs. Marijuana next door had a difficult time moving out of their smoke filled haze.
We did manage to trek up to the tip of the island where there was a small restaurant called Adam's Bar. Here we very legally topped up our tired old mp3 player with a ton of new music, $20 for 30 albums, and whiled away the evenings watching films there, while cotching on the comfy cushions and playing with the cutest little puppy, who wanted to bite everything!
We somehow got up the energy to cycle around the island, a journey that takes about half an hour, but we still managed to have to stop twice! Once for breakfast at an English geezers joint (we are gutted we are leaving on a Sunday as they do English Sunday Roasts!!) and then again at the Veggie patch run by a couple of visible hippies but to be fair they make the best cakes and ice cream! YUM!
It was amazing to have a little chill out here, and rest our bike-bruised-bums. But the atmosphere here drains the life out of you a little bit, and for some reason we struggled to climb out of the hammocks most days. We finally got the energy and courage to leave and so were up bright and early to catch the 8 o'clock boat out to get the bus to Cambodia. Running slightly late, we were pacing it up the street, not really concentrating when we saw a mirage in front of us. Tori and Tyler?! It can't be! They were there, and had been the whole of the previous day, next door but one to our bamboo heaven, and had missed them on our lazy cycle. (Having broken the kindle while on the bikes and not wanting to pay the extortionate internet cafe prices we hadn't checked the email that told us they were arriving.) Gutted, and needing to catch our boat; 'Walk with us!' we demanded and had a quick catch up and some loose arrangements to definitely meet in Cambodia.
Siem Reap here we come!
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