A Drunken Night on Pub Street

The entrance to our guesthouse, Alibi.

For both Allan and myself, leaving Sihanoukville was really difficult.  It truly felt like we were leaving our own strip of paradise behind.  We knew that 4 days beach side wasn't enough time to begin with and, while there, we began to fantasize about leaving our jobs behind and moving to this remote beach side town where life, and time, stood still.

Pub Street: The place for drinking and debauchery

After realizing that we'd most likely only be able to afford a good two months of beach side living without jobs, we boarded a bus to Siem Reap, our last stop in Cambodia and our home for the next 6 days.

The awesome Max and Emma.  Our Stray Asia friends.

Siem Reap is absolutely breathtaking.  The architecture is very French Colonial complete with awnings on windows and verandas on the second level of every  building.  The town itself isn't that big but what it lacks in size it makes up for in character, tenfold.  A river runs directly through the town and either side of the river are shops, cafes, guesthouses and street carts.  Siem Reap still remains one of our favorite stops along the way.

My worst mistake was ordering a G&T bucket as NO ONE else would help me drink it

We checked into the cutest guesthouse that had the friendliest staff around.  The neat thing about this place was that it was locally owned by a fantastic Cambodian family which made you really feel like one of them, for a short time at least.  Another great thing about this place was it's proximity to everything fun, especially Pub Street.

Yes, I'm still drinking it

Even now, I am struggling with the words to describe Pub Street.  Okay, try this...think of Las Vegas' Fremont Street.  Complete with lights dangling everywhere, people dancing in the streets, beer replacing water and more street food than you could even think of eating.  Oh, and then times that by 2.  Seriously, it was a different party every night.  This night, though, we met up with two of our Stray Asia friends to have dinner and go dancing.

So cute

These two ruled the dance floor.  It was epic

And dancing we did.  Since there are really only two bars in the vicinity of Pub Street, we started at one and drank way too many buckets than went to the other one and drank way too many buckets there AND started dancing with everyone.  Yes, even Allan was dancing on stage.  Then we went back to the other bar and started drinking buckets again and dancing.  We actually ended up getting two free t-shirts out of it (YAY for drinking buckets) and woke up with the worst hang overs ever.

Poor hungover Allan

Best introduction to Siem Reap if I say so myself....