Jungle trekking to paradise

One day before our next change of location, we booked our flight to Sihanoukville and an interesting sounding accommodation on Koh Rong Sanloem. After the past two weeks full of new impressions, we wanted to relax a bit at the end 🏝️😊.

For this purpose, we chose the Sunboo Beach Bungalows at Sunset Beach. The only hurdle: Sunset Beach is off the beaten path and can only be reached via a jungle trail. The landlady wrote to us in advance and said that it would take about 40 minutes to walk and that we should definitely arrive before sunset 🙈. No one likes to walk the route in the dark. We thought we could handle it 🙈.

After the flight and the chaotic ferry ride to the island, we walked or climbed through thousands of mosquitoes and hundreds of lizards accompanied by deafening cicada chirping, and after forty minutes in the middle of the jungle with no end in sight, we realized that 40 minutes probably doesn't fit 🙈.

So! Did the landlady assume that we would jog? Since when are via ferratas called trails? And has anyone actually walked over here with luggage? 😂 Is this even the right way? Is this even a way? 😂 Or was it just Christian's increased temperature and Nathalie's fear of heights?

For our part, despite all adversity, we did not let ourselves be stopped and ultimately took a good 1.5 hours for the jungle trekking including full luggage of now about 20 kg (souvenirs 🤷‍♂️😬). Totally sweaty, we arrived on the other side of the island eight minutes before sunset. That was close 😂. Here, Parisa, who turned out to be the Austrian landlady, quickly handed us a beer on the house and walked with us the 10 m to the beach. What we were allowed to see here was nothing less than the actually most beautiful sunset of our lives 😊🌅. That excuses the hardships 👍! Even if only just 😉...

The accommodation is exactly as expected: lonely and rudimentary. There is only electricity via solar power, the water for the shower is only available cold, and at night there is no water for the shower, toilet, or sink 🙈. Of course, there is also no wifi or internet. Instead, we have a mosquito net, a fan, and at the front there is a water dispenser with filtered water for thirst 💪...