New Year's on Koh Rong

New Year's Eve was a very long day for me. I woke up at 08:00 and decided to go for a long run. Given the size of the beach, I had to do a couple of laps. But then I went for a swim and ate a giant breakfast with this guy:

Our side of the island didn't have much to look at while snorkeling, but Lazy Beach resort on the far side of the island had a bit, and was only a 1.5 km hike through the jungle. It was hard to get myself to put my camera in the water the first time, and I clearly need some practice shooting underwater, but it was pretty novel.









Koh Rong Sanloem is much quieter than the other island. We'd gone out the night before New Year's looking for someplace to have a drink and came up pretty short. But we were able to fund one place with a bit of life. While we were eating dinner we were approached by an English woman named Sarah who was trying to find interested folks to book a boat over to the other island for New Year's Eve.

The plan was to leave around 17:00, party all night, and come back at about 06:30 the following morning. We got off a bit late. This is what the boat looked like on the way there:



And this is what it looked like the following morning:



Koh Rong was a hell of a party. I didn't make it back to my bungalow until about 10:30. And then barely made it out of bed for the next 22 hours.