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- Sihanoukville Beaches -
Most
people come to Sihanoukville for the beaches. There are
several beautiful beaches and most of them are only visited by
tourists.
From the beaches and surrounding hills, you can see many of
Cambodia's small islands. Many of these beaches are filled with grass hut restaurants and bars.
All the resorts in Sihanoukville have their own beaches. Some of the beaches are very rocky, some are deserted.
Some beaches are filled with beach stands, where tourists and locals
are spending their spare time in weekends and holidays.
The resorts have private beaches for their guests. These are maintained by the resorts and are very quiet and clean. Outside of the resorts, you can find the following beaches,
which are located mostly 5 minutes from downtown:
Victoria Beach
is close to the harbour, at the bottom of "The Hill".
Victory beach has quickly become the tourist beach on the West side of town.
it's an easy walk from Victory Hill, with plenty of seafood, boating activities, guesthouses, and a full service casino.
In the middle is this quiet beach, and it has some restaurants towards the port.
There's also a pier for island boat trips.
Independence Beach is at a kilometer or two and nothing but beach. Mostly closed down now except in front of Seabreeze Guesthouse and a private beach at the Independence Hotel complex.
Sokha beach is a private beach, 1.5 kilometers long, for the guest of the Sokha Resort hotel.
It's wider than most other beaches. It's a well groomed beach, not too many people, and for a fee (if you're not a hotel guest), a beautiful swimming pool, fitness center, and lobby lounge. At the near end of Sokha are a few hillside and cliffside bungalows.
Sokha Beach
Serendipity Beach is the tourist beach on the East Side. No beach stands here, just Western style bars and restaurants. One of the few places with rooms right on the beach. Many new internet shops, clothing, MP3 downloads, tour services and boat departures to the islands. Serendipity has turned into the shopping section of town.
This beach has grown ever more popular with backpackers and now
boasts a plethora of guesthouses, restaurants, and bars
right on the sand.
This is the place to go and to hang out with other
travellers, listen to new music, and to enjoy the full-moon
parties.
Serendipity Beach
Ocheteaul Beach on the East side of town, about a 5 minute motorcycle ride from downtown.
The most popular, and perhaps the best, public beach in
Sihanoukville. The beach is one long row of shacks offering
beach chairs and umbrellas, pool tables, hip music, and
cheap food and drinks.
Most restaurants serve Khmer style food, but many now offer Western dishes. Across the street from the beach, there's an assortment of
other restaurants and hotels.
This beach runs about 2 kilometers from Serendipity Beach to Otres Beach.
Otres Beach is outside of
Sihanoukville. Otres is the quietest beach in town.
The Beach is seldom visited because of the difficulty
in getting there. If you're willing to go several kilometres
out of town, or take the unpaved beach road past Ochheuteal
and over the steep hill to get there, you will be rewarded
with over three kilometres of white sand that hardly ever
sees any visitors.
Several small beach stands with food and umbrellas are available. There's no public electricity here yet, so many places use a generator when necessary. Also, sailboat and kayak rentals and windsurfing.
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