Friday 20th October

Up early for a trip to Sihanoukville on the coast. Our party of 250 piled aboard 6 buses and we got a good view of rural Cambodia as we headed South west for about 260km (160miles).

The journey was not without some hairy overtaking moments and featured a tire change but the traffic moved well enough and we were booked into our very pleasant hotel and sheltering from the rain at the hotel swimming pool by 1pm. The downpour was torrential for a while but the skies cleared before we had to head out from the hotel and that's really the last rain we've seen.

The run here featured a trail along the beach with good views and a couple of turns through a fishing village who'd likely not seen anything like this before. Some of the running was on sand but a few sections involved rock hopping which wasn't to everyone's taste. We then swam and enjoyed the sunset with beer before returning to the town and enjoying a very fine meal at a little restaurant a few meters away from the hotel gate.