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lined with ramshackle restaurants, whose northwestern end - a tiny, rocky
strip - has emerged as a happy, easy-going travellers' hang-out known as
Serendipity Beach
.
South of Occheuteal Beach, beyond a small headland, lies
Otres Beach
, lined by dozens
of bungalow-style restaurants and resorts. Otres has cleaner water and is more relaxed
than anything in Sihanoukville proper, and is lengthy enough that finding your own patch
of private sand is not a challenge...just walk south. Otres Beach is about 5km south of the
Serendipity area. It's a US$2/5
moto
/
remorque
ride to get here (more at night).
One beach north of Serendipity lies Sihanoukville's prettiest beach, 1.5km-long
Sokha
Beach
. Its fine, silicon-like sand squeaks loudly underfoot. The tiny eastern end of Sokha
Beach is open to the public and rarely crowded. The rest is part of the exclusive Sokha
Beach Resort.
Moving north from Sokha Beach, you'll hit pretty
Independence Beach
near the classic
Independence Hotel, and the original backpacker beach,
Victory Beach
, now under Russian
management. The latter is clean, orderly and devoid of buzz.
Diving
The diving near Sihanoukville isn't terrific. It gets better the further you go out, although
you still shouldn't expect anything on a par with the western Gulf of Thailand or the An-
daman Sea. Most serious trips will hit
Koh Rong Samloem
, while overnight trips target the
distant islands of
Koh Tang
and
Koh Prins
. Overnight trips cost about US$100 per day in-
cluding two daily dives, food, accommodation on an island and equipment. Two-tank
dives out of Sihanoukville average US$80 including equipment. PADI open-water courses
average about US$400 to US$450 - pretty competitive by world standards.
Dive Shop
( 034-933664;
www.diveshopcambodia.com
; Road to Serendipity)
PADI five-star dive centre of-
fering National Geographic Diver certification. It has a dive shop on Koh Rong and works
closely with Paradise Bungalows.
DIVING
EcoSea Dive
( 034-934631;
www.ecoseadive.com
; Road to Serendipity)
Offers PADI and SSI courses.
DIVING
Marine Conservation Cambodia
DIVING
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