Well Kept

View from our balcony.
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Becks' diary:

Tuk-tuk along the coast to Kep. We find out that the boat to Koh-Tonsay is $20, which seems excessive for just one night (we're not used to Cambodian prices, reading this back at home Ill think we were just being tight).

Get a room overlooking the turquoise sea. We hire a moped and set off in search of lunch, which is fish and rice in a place on stilts over the sea. We decide to head to a temple 30km inland in some caves. After a long bumpy drive we arrive, only to find the key has dropped out of the ignition on the way. Disaster! We can't even stop the engine or fill the tank and the light is already flashing empty. No choice but to head home and hope the fuel doesn't run out before we get there. Managed leave before one of the locals (trying to help) started pulling at the fuel hose.

Kep from above.
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We make it back... just, without spotting the key on the way. The guesthouse owner (whose mate's moped we borrowed) is laid back about it and the third Honda key he tries fits fine. How secure. It turns out that this, unlike our previous mopeds does not have a locked ignition, with obvious consequences.

We head down to the crab market, stopping at the statue of the naked lady on the way. While we're there a local guy turns up on his moped. "Are you happy?", he asks. "Yes thanks, very happy". "I very happy to meet you". All very friendly and we get chatting. as much as you can with the language barrier. He asks, innocently, if he can hang out with us, saying; "Can I play with you?", which starts us laughing. We tell him we're heading to the crab market and he follows on his moped. Along the way he starts to say, "I very happy when I meet you", "Us too", I reply (this is getting weird). "Because Mr Ben is handsome and you are beautiful" - ok very weird! Gets us going again. Sompat, our new friend, soon says he has to head back to Kampot. All the best as Ben was starting to fear his intentions.

Crab market is a small dirty enclosure with no crabs. Think you have to be up at the crack of dawn for that one. The Kep website innocently confesses, "we may not have white sandy beaches, but we do have a crab market". I'd take white sandy beaches any day!

For dinner we head to a very Cambodian looking place by the boat jetty. It's deserted, but so is everywhere round here, so we decide to try it anyway. Curried crab and fish curry are really good.