We did not leave the room until after 11:00 just chilled, I had done a bit of research where we are going next. Got the receptionist to get their tuk tuk driver to take us to a travel agent as they know travel better of their own country than I can research more on line. We are flying down to Sihanoukville tomorrow morning early a short flight and then get a ferry at 11:30 to the island of Koh Rong Samloem staying at a lovely resort. We have 5 nights there we both need to relax chill re charge the batteries after this amazing journey we have experienced. On the 9th back to the mainland and a bus up to Phnom Penh and a flight to Bangkok. I will either fly on back to Spain that night or fly out the next day.
Penny is going to stay on in Thailand for up to 2 weeks as she has nothing to rush home for. I am back in Aberdeen on the 17th & in the office on the 18th of this month. Get 5 days back in Spain to sort myself out and get ready for work.
Had a lovely lunch in town and watched the world go by and got a tuk tuk back to the hotel and had a swim in the large pool no one else in it, lovely. At 16:35 we were picked up and we are off to go hot air ballooning. We both have not done it before and Penny has a fear of this and is going for it. Good on her.
What a brilliant experience we drove into the jungle farm area and after 30 minutes we arrive in this large field where 2 balloons were being prepared. Once they were fully inflated we joined our English pilot 12 others in the basket and off we went. I would highly recommend you to experience this in a warm climate. We were up to 200m above the ground and we were given big bag of sweeties to drop done to the kids. We passed over 2 old temples hidden by jungle, then a crocodile farm where we spotted the crocs laying in numbers by the pool and over an army base by then we were meters above their building roofs and not long later we landed smoothly in a paddock. There was the ground team which packed the 2 balloons and equipment into truck and we headed back into town in a minibus. We all got dropped off at the Night Market and had some dinner and headed back to the hotel. Did not manage to get to bed until after midnight and have to be up at 04:00 to go to Angkor Wat and watch the sun rise.
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