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MeznG. In the air, on the road, river or sea again
We farewell our tour group at the hotel. Some are departing the same time as us so we are on a bus together to the airport. The others leave later in the day so they wave us goodbye. Our flight with Cambodian Airlines is only 1 hour and is an easy comfortable trip. Sam met us at the airport as planned and had a tuk tuk waiting to take us and our luggage to Shinta Mani Resort, our home for the next 4 nights. The hotel is sensational and the staff are so attentive. Our room is on the ground floor and at most 10 steps to the sun lounge and 12 steps to the pool. Beautiful.
Sam informs us that we have a commitment at 7pm but apart from that the rest of the days is free. We are a little bit hungry so we go to Sam's favourite restaurant for Pork fried rice. It's a street stall run by a lovely lady Kunthea and her husband and kids. 3 plates of fried rice cooked fresh right there in front of us and a can of beer cost USD$4.75. As a special treat she makes us all a banana smoothie and although none of us are hungry at all, we can't knock it back, it's delicious.
We waddle back to the hotel where we are met with ice cold face washers and welcomed home.
It's pool time. The water us warmish but it's nice to be wet with something other than sweat! While laying by the pool we are served ice cold water and an ice cream in a cone followed shortly after by a 10 minute neck and shoulder massage, bliss.
After time to relax we get ready to meet Sam for drinks and dinner but first we have a beer and a cocktail in the bar of the hotel. We take a tuk tuk into the pub street area and Sam comes to meet us and takes us to the restaurant where we meet a few of his friends. There are 2 brothers, one who lives in Siem Reap with his girlfriend who is a teacher and the younger one who is visiting. Coincidentally their mum and dad from Australia are also there to visit the boys so along with Loz from Sister Srey it's a family tea. The restaurant is Genevieves named after an Australian who was a teacher and had a connection and passion for educating and caring for the disadvantaged. She and her husband Phil moved to Cambodia. About 15 years ago Genevieve died after battling cancer and Phil established the restaurant in her name. He employs Cambodians that are struggling. The only prerequisite is that they are willing to learn and want to work.Very few of his staff had any restaurant experience so they all learn together. Thursday night was quite busy and there were people willing to wait to get a table. The food is good and cheap.
We leave the restaurant to free up some tables and we head to a bar called Beatniks. The manager there is Dylan another expat Aussie who has fallen in love with Cambodia. There is a great network of people, Aussies, locals and other internationals and Sam fits very comfortably in with everyone and we are made very welcome too.
After a few more drinks we decide to head back to Shinta Mani as we are starting to wilt. we leave Sam with his mates and plan to meet him at Sister Srey in the morning for coffee before heading off on our adventure.
Sam informs us that we have a commitment at 7pm but apart from that the rest of the days is free. We are a little bit hungry so we go to Sam's favourite restaurant for Pork fried rice. It's a street stall run by a lovely lady Kunthea and her husband and kids. 3 plates of fried rice cooked fresh right there in front of us and a can of beer cost USD$4.75. As a special treat she makes us all a banana smoothie and although none of us are hungry at all, we can't knock it back, it's delicious.
We waddle back to the hotel where we are met with ice cold face washers and welcomed home.
It's pool time. The water us warmish but it's nice to be wet with something other than sweat! While laying by the pool we are served ice cold water and an ice cream in a cone followed shortly after by a 10 minute neck and shoulder massage, bliss.
After time to relax we get ready to meet Sam for drinks and dinner but first we have a beer and a cocktail in the bar of the hotel. We take a tuk tuk into the pub street area and Sam comes to meet us and takes us to the restaurant where we meet a few of his friends. There are 2 brothers, one who lives in Siem Reap with his girlfriend who is a teacher and the younger one who is visiting. Coincidentally their mum and dad from Australia are also there to visit the boys so along with Loz from Sister Srey it's a family tea. The restaurant is Genevieves named after an Australian who was a teacher and had a connection and passion for educating and caring for the disadvantaged. She and her husband Phil moved to Cambodia. About 15 years ago Genevieve died after battling cancer and Phil established the restaurant in her name. He employs Cambodians that are struggling. The only prerequisite is that they are willing to learn and want to work.Very few of his staff had any restaurant experience so they all learn together. Thursday night was quite busy and there were people willing to wait to get a table. The food is good and cheap.
We leave the restaurant to free up some tables and we head to a bar called Beatniks. The manager there is Dylan another expat Aussie who has fallen in love with Cambodia. There is a great network of people, Aussies, locals and other internationals and Sam fits very comfortably in with everyone and we are made very welcome too.
After a few more drinks we decide to head back to Shinta Mani as we are starting to wilt. we leave Sam with his mates and plan to meet him at Sister Srey in the morning for coffee before heading off on our adventure.
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