I had a great Christmas Day in Cambodia. I got up early and had a nice big breakfast in preparation for my ride to Bokor Hill.

It was quite a long ride taking about 90 minutes with about an hour of weird the amount of development happening in a national park. There is a load of Chinese money being spent and they have built a massive hotel and casino and by the looks of it hundreds of people will be able to stay there. Apparently the end result will wipe out most of the top of the hill where they are building.

We finally got to our main destination which is an abandoned hotel, it as been derelict since the 60's, but now looks like they are trying to restore it a little. It is still pretty cool to walk through. We then went to the abandoned church which is nearby.

After that we drove off to the "secret waterfall" which is not really a secret and isn't that big. It is cool because the water disappears into the rockes and then comes out as a waterfall further down. I think it would be more impressive in the wet season when there was more water flowing.

I then did the big drive back to the guest house for Xmas lunch which was a big BBQ of fish and chicken and loads of salad. We then just did the normal Xmas activities, sat around drank beer and played cards.

Today I am off the see the "secret lake" which is also not a secret and then check out some of the peppers farms around here. That is table pepper which apparently Cambodia is famous for and is exported all over the world and used in some of the best restaurants in the world. Who knew there was so many different peppers.

The final decision for tomorrow is to go back to Phnom Penh a day early to do the markets and the S21 prison museum.