The next morning, we left for Sihanoukville. We walked down the street to the Ferry port. Here's the view:


The walk was quite nice and helped wake us up in preparation for the boat ride.

I know you have wanted to do this trip for some time now. Glad to see that you finally got to do it. Here's to more happy adventuring for you.

This trip is interesting and the pictures tell a thousand words. It is like reading an adventures novel. Thank you.

Screwed up this post, let me try below...

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Well... there's more:

The tickets for the ferry were purchased the night before from the guesthouse. Arriving at the dock, the boat was much as it had been pictured in the official Koh Kong website:



Inside:


I boarded inside. The seats were very comfortable and the air-conditioning was nice. Inside the boat was a lady selling all kinds of food and drinks. I bought my breakfast from her very affordably and settled down as we got ready to depart.

After a bit, I made my way up to the roof and to the front of the boat. I made a bed out of couple big sacks of rice and layed down and listened to mp3 and started taking photos. Here's a few views as we progressed on the first half of the journey:









The boat followed the coastline and progressed smoothly and at a good pace for (I forget how long it was since it's been awhile) maybe 2.5 hours, but then we came to an island and docked long enough to offload cargo. The island people met the boat, put planks from the docks to the rails to walk on, and formed a human-relay to get the cargo off.











Next, we continued on into more open water. I tried to sleep, but my rice-sack bed was gone and I couldn't get as comfortable.

Some of the coast along the way:





Anyway, it was still pleasant and 2 hours or so later, we got to the port at Sihanoukville.