Even the locals enjoy beaches and coconut shakes

Look out, Mousehead, there's a cat on my foot!
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We only had 4 days to kill in Cambodia, and fittingly we went to the beach and took a total of 3 photos.  Surprisingly, this was one of the best beaches we've found.  The sand is white, fine, and soft, the water is crystal clear and a dream to swim in, the beer is cheap, and the major resorts haven't arrived yet.  The vendors can be a little pushy, like following you, sitting next to you, and touching your legs demanding that you need to get their hair-removal treatment, but if you go far enough down the beach it is possible to avoid the vast majority of these people.

Cambodian section of the beach
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Unfortunately the weather wasn't super-hot, but we were still able to laze around on the sand each day, catch up on some reading, and fall in love all over again with farang beach living that we'd been trying so hard to avoid in Thailand.

All too quickly we found ourselves on a terrifying seasick-provoking rocky dinghy of a boat taking us to the border back into Thailand.  Two buses and a pickup truck later we found ourselves at an internet cafe in Bangkok at 5 am because it just seemed to make more sense at that point than getting a hotel for the night.  To those of you we emailed or talked to, we apologize for any incoherences.