On the boat we saw Aaron (the Aussie guy) and also met with a couple from Cambridge called Sam and Rachel who we ended up spending the majority of the time with.
As we approached the island I can only express it as breath taking... chalk white beaches, crystel clear sea and only a handful of people as far as the eye can see. (I can definatly see why our friends Olly and Gemma chose this place to get engaged last year!) We were shown to our beach hut which was literally a very girlie stones throw to the waters edge. When I say hut I mean hut, it was made out of palm leaves and had massive gaps between the walls and the roof so we were very at one with nature (we were definatly bunking with a family of geckos and a questionable furry animal Mike swears he saw!)
We pretty much just chilled for two lovely days and three nights, we played a lot of cards, drank a bit of Chang beer, saw an amazing guy do fire twirling and swam in the warm sea a lot.
Our best day was when we decided to go on a group adventure. We had been told about a desserted beach that you could just see poking out at the end of our beach that you could only get to by walking through the jungle (which we had been warned off due to the snakes). So after spending the morning building up enough courage and practising snorkling we doned our snorkle for the 45 min very scenic swim around the rocky edge of the island to the beach. It was awesome for me being the first time I have ever spent that long in the sea and my first time snorkling. It was mainly dead coral but we saw some many different types of fish and even some weird sea urchins! And it was definatly worth the swim...
We rocked up on this beautiful 400m stretch of untouched snow white sand and the beach was that kind where the sea went out for ages and your still only ankle deep! No shops, no people just sun, sand and sea! So what did we do with our time on this peaceful, desserted beach?? Well we played 'down on one knee' with a small buoy (not boy!) we found in the sea!
Unfortunatly we didn't have our camera on us because of the snorkling to get there so that amazing picture will have to stay in our heads!
The final night we had the most amazing storm which we felt we were right in the midst of due to our none sound proof (and slightly leaky!) hut. It was actually a bit scary when the thunder and lightening was directly above us but it made way for the most amazing sunrise I've ever seen the next morning!
Its safe to say we were very sad to leave Koh Rong... especially as we had to leave it to spend the next day waiting for 5 hours in a bar for our post (cash cards) to be delivered, but amazingly arrive they did!!! Thank you June Mckenna, you're a legend!
S xxx
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