outstanding work again pal i visited sihanoukville around 14 years ago and like your self thought it was beautiful i had a friend who visited around 4 years ago didn't stay was horrified with what had become of the place checked out of hotel and went to kep thank you for showing it how it is i think i will remember it as it was and not bother coming back
OMG NOOOOO! I had no idea this happened. I went to Otres 1 like 8 years ago for two days and ended up spending two weeks. I just couldn't leave. It was so magical! I stayed in a little bamboo hut on the beach at a place called Moms. This is so sad.
Hi Richy, It's not possible to polish a turd! You're correct some Cambodian Officials have sold the people down the river! The Chinese were to build 60 Hotels/Casinos, mostly employing Chinese construction workers and solely for Chinese guests. In December 2018 I stayed for 2 days at Sahaa Beach Resort on Otres Beach, (which was great) luckily away from the town centre where their were fields full of dumped building materials. I had travelled from Siem Reap to Phnom Pehn and Kampot. I will never return. As if the Cambodian people haven't had enough shit to deal with! Best wishes from Bangkok.
I was living in snooky in 2017,its changed so much,after the Chinese invasion I went to live in siam reap, love the place, been in in Thailand now since November 2022,in jomtien, going back to Cambodia in January 2024,back to siam reap. I'm a new subscriber,great channel keep em coming mate.
Hello Richy love your videos and insights into SE Asia im a Brit like you and counting the day to my retirement in March! I’m lucky I’m retiring at 55 and I intend to live in the Philippines after a slow tour around Thailand, Cambodia, Malaysia and Vietnam so your content is perfect! What the story with the Thrudark baseball hat? Thanks for everything your doing and who knows maybe our paths will cross for a pint and a chat sometime
Brilliant Tony, love hearing from people who are taking the jump. First person who has clocked on to my cap👍🏻. Someone asked about the emblem. I love my climbing and been outdoors, I bought loads off Thrudark but there no use in Asia. No better place to buy your gear other than the guys who lived and breathed it for years🏴
Watching this video making me want to cry 😭 this beach was once a very popular and beautiful place 10 years ago. It’s my romantic love place with my girlfriend watching a fireworks at the end of the year. We have good memories there together but now it’s ruined 😢💔 Angkor Wat and this beaches have made lot of money for Cambodia but now they have destroyed 💔
It’s insane Steve, broke my heart going back. I sort of knew what they’d done but speaking to people who lived through it and had their lively hood taken away, really brings it home the sheer destruction.
I have lived in east Thailand for the past 21 years, bordering Cambodia . Look at that hotel resort ,fantastic building . People built that , most probably locals ,being paid sweet FA
It is mate, but an eyesore from what it used to be. from what ive been told a lot of chinese labourers were brought over to build. If that's true its even more of a kick in teeth for the Cambodian people.
Hello mate! I can’t believe the state of the place! Do you remember FootPrints Hostel? I think it was on Otres 2? The whole place had such a vibe….i just can’t believe it 😢 thanks for the video though…appreciate it!
Hi mate, it was shocking to see. I don’t remember footprints, I always stayed at sea breeze on Ortes one. Hopefully they’ll get it sorted in the future, thanks👍🏻
@@ParkinsonRaw how about Kerfuffle? 😂 I assume that’s stopped too. Did you ever go? Me and the Mrs will be coming to Cambodia next year, going to rent tuk tuks and drive them around 😂
Another great blog Richy. Sihanoukville was my paradise and I used to go there two or three times a year from 2002 - 2015, as I lives in Thailand full-time. Amazing what has happened and I agree with all the other peoples' comments on its destruction. Don't know what the future is for the new Chinese Cambodia is, but it doesn't look rosey.
Thanks Andrew, we live in hope mate. After other countries see their total disregard for Cambodia they think twice about opening the door. And also for the Cambodian’s they can recover and get back to business and the tourists can return🇰🇭🙏🏻
Otres was our groups favorite place there too. Beer, beach food vendors, happy people, etc.. Once it was sold out to Chinese casinos.. it went to hell.
@@Cohowarren urgh.I live in Philippines in Taal/Lemery a farm & fish village.We are only 15 miles from the volcano. If you plan to live in Philippines it is wonderful ; just be sure to not live near any volcanoes.The air is being riddled with sharp,silicate crystals ..that end up in the lungs
I was there two weeks ago and was disgusted at what Sihanoukville has become. That beach Otres was always vibrant with beach food outlets, now the place is deserted. So sorry for the Cambodian people, now one big Casino city. Horrible.
Been twice there before Chinese investors got it . Won't be going again, I feel for the local Cambodians who got moved on .this what you get with corruption in government. The Chinese want to own every thing.
i stayed in otres beach in november 23,my first,and last visit to sihanoukville,it was like something post apocalyptic,people there are struggling to make a living,i cant see things changing in the near future,so sad to see this part of cambodia.
Hi Richy. Were you expecting it to be as it was, or did you know it has been mostly abandoned? It's such a shame to hear because watching your video, I could imagine the area thriving.
Hi mate, it was awesome back then. No I heard about it but didn’t want to see vlogs and be disappointed until I seen it myself. Otres is totally cleared. The whole beach front has been taken away for miles, I couldn’t imagine it was going to be so bad.
hi man i remeber it 12 years ago good fun drinking beer in all the bars on the beach 50 cent pints ice cold lovly girls super chap food my room was 5 bucks a night and over to the islands to smoke it up
In Vietnam they did this to Mui Ne and they are currently doing it to Phu Quoc island. Its unprotected greed. Nothing wrong with a touch of development but if they dont regulate it then this happens.
Went there first 2012, beautiful 😍 sitting on serendipity beach eating prawns and drinking beer 🍻 Went again 2018 holy f*ck! Went straight to Koh Rong island for our 3 day, kr was still good but even though I live in Cambodia I have no intention of going back.
Last time i was there it was boxing day and they were bulldozing down bars that day peak holiday time. There were places with doorman they would only let the chinese in. . Never will i go again so sad for the locals
@@grahammurray7426 it’s insane how they can get away with it, the lad I was talking to said the was loads of deaths by wreck less Chinese. All they had to do was to pay the dead persons family $10,000 and it was brushed under the carpet.
Let this be a lesson to the precious Koh Rong island which is still thankfully stunning and untouched. Watch out for the Chinese they will pour concrete on it, have more awful casinos, karaokes and be slurping noodles all day as they avoid the sun.
What happened to all the bamboo bars and restaurants,the music, the deck chairs on the sand, 30 years ago it was paradise for pennies,beach hut $3 night, beer delivered to your deck chair 50c ,and any other thing you desire.
I remember otres village about 8 or 9 years ago.. 1 bar.. very chilled.. I knew the bulldozers were imminent but, bloody hell it's terrible.. I will not be returning.
Please someone help cambodia come back again! It’s slowly being taken over! I last went 6 years ago and there were so much construction. It was scary. It was also difficult to find a place to check in if you’re not chinese.
There must be a load of Squatters in these abandoned buildings. I know in BKK the emptt buildings near the tourist hot spots are full of them eg khosan building sites.. lot of fun talking to the squatters in them... unlike squatters in my own country... (they meet ppl like me😊). Best have a beer mate before u go from Richy Parkinson to Rickety Parkinsons! Just so you know they are not prawns. They look similar but they have very nasty 'blades' on the sides of the head. They do not taste the same as prawn but have a unique crustacean taste different from prawn crab crayfish and lobster. They are nasty little things to handle live. I am unsure of their khmer name I am sorry as I only know them by the Thai and Aussie name. Aussie: Thumb Splitter.
look, I was there 20 years ago. I was also in China 20 years ago, it look just like it does now. Give it 5 years you'll be eating these words. Cambodia with the help of China will blow our minds. Visit China! And this is coming from an Australian, Im not Chinese. Invest now!
I’m always sceptical when someone starts a message with look, it rude where I come from. What I was saying was I was there in 2016 and the change is chalk and cheese, it looks like it’s being destroyed I wasn’t talking about the future. I will be visiting China at some point.
@@ParkinsonRaw go and look at photos of Shenzhen in the year 2000, it looked a lot like Sihanoukville, look at it now... All this anti China narritive that we keep being exposed to is straight out of the CIA. They bombed the living daylights out of Cambodia, couped prince Sihanouk, replaced him with general Nul and then did this (note below) After that we in the West do not have the right to an opinon... Our leaders altered the History of the entire region, yet the powers allow us to forget and most dont even know, and yes this is all related because theyre trying to attack the Chinese of their own territory right now - Taiwan and SO CONCERNED about the Chinese rebuilding the nation! Everything we know or believe is the product of our own industry of endless War. This is why our popular beliefs and understanding focus on the superficial and short term view. Its also why we dont like our History...👇👇👇 Operation Eagle Pull -12/04/1975 'Twelve helicopters, bristling with guns and U.S. Marines breached the morning horizon and began a daring descent toward Cambodia's besieged capital. Residents believed the Americans were rushing in to save them, but at the U.S Embassy, in a bleeding city about to die, the ambassador wept..." "We'd accepted responsibility for Cambodia & then walked out without fulfilling our promise. That's the worst thing a country can do," he says in an interview in Paris. And I cried because I knew what was going to happen.' John Gunther Dean Former U.S Ambassador Phnom Penh 'Children and mothers scrambled over fences to watch. They cheered, clapped and waved to the 360 beefy, armed Marines. A Cambodian military policeman saluted Armstrong smartly. Disgusted and ashamed, he dropped his helmet and rifle, leaving them behind. I tried to avoid looking into faces of the crowd. Always with me will be the children's little hands aflutter and their singsong "OK, Bye-bye, bye-bye." By 12:15 the last helicopters landed on the deck of the USS Okinawa waiting off the Cambodian coast. Tactically, the 2 1/2-hour operation had been flawless. In Phnom Penh , Douglas Sapper, an ex-Green Beret who stayed behind to save his company's employee, recalled the reaction of Cambodians who realised what had happened: "It was like telling a kid that Santa Claus was dead.' The U.S Admin under Nixon & Kissinger knowingly gave rise to the Khmer Rouge. But to add insult to injury, in the 1980's (after the genocide) then U.S President Ronald Reagan sent in the CIA and military units to covertly support and train the Khmer Rouge. When the heat in Central America got to hot for Reagan, fearing more bad press, he handed Cambodia off to the UK's Margaret Thatcher who did the same and supported the Khmer Rouge after they murdered over 3 million Khmer in peaceful Cambodia. 🇰🇭💙❤ DON'T THINK I'VE FORGOTTEN! -US led WARS, BOMBING CAMPAIGNS, INVASIONS - AND MILITARY INTERVENTIONS Attempted Sabotage, Coups and Destabilisation Since WW2 - (NOT INCLUDING RESULTING GENOCIDES) China - 1945/46 Syria - 1949 Korea - 1950/53 China - 1950/53 Iran - 1953 Guatemala - 1954 Tibet - 1955/70 Indonesia - 1958 Cuba - 1959 DRC - 1960/65 Dominican Republic - 1961 Vietnam - 1961/73 Brazil - 1964 Republic of Congo - 1964 Guatemala - 1964 Laos - 1964/1973 Brasil - 1964 Dominican Republic - 1965/66 Peru - 1965 Indonesia - 1965 - Coup Greece - 1967/74 - Coup Guatemala - 1967/69 #Cambodia - 1969/75 - (knowingly gave rise to the Khmer Rouge AND then supported, armed & trained even after the genocide) Chile - 1970/73 #Australia 🇦🇺 - 1975 (Gough Whitlam - CIA & MI6 backed COUP over Pine Gap, the Vietnam War AND Whitlam beating Nixon to China!) Argentina - 1976 Angola - 1976/92 Turkey - 1980 Poland - 1981 El Salvador - 1981/92 Nicaragua - 1981/90 Cambodia - 1980/95 Lebanon - 1982/84 Granada - 1983/84 Libya - 1986 Iran - 1987/88 Libya - 1989 Phillipines - 1989 Panama - 1989/90 Iraq - 1991 Kuwait - 1991 Somalia - 1992/94 Iraq -:1992 - 1996 Bosnia - 1995 Iraq - 1998 Sudan - 1998 Afghanistan - 1998 Yugoslavia - 1999 Afghanistan - 2001 Iraq - 2002/03 Iran - 2005 Somalia - 2006/07 Honduras - 2009 Libya - 2011 Ukraine - 2014 - Coup 👈👈👈 Venezuela - 2018 SYRIA - 🇺🇲 Backed rebels YEMEN - 🇺🇲🇸🇦 (US Backed genocide) ISRAEL - 🇮🇱🇺🇲 (Ongoing Apartheid over Palestine) Republic of Haiti - 2021 Cuba - 2021 Ukraine - 2022 Pakistan - 2022 - Coup Peru - 2022 - Coup Georgia - 2023 - unrest Sudan - 2023 - Coup attempt . DRONE STRIKES - USA - tens of thousands CHINA - ZERO (and no Wars since 1979)
It’s not a good look for a seaside resort is it mate, I thought I was like Baghdad after the war. Shame it used to be a beautiful City, hopefully it can get back to its former glory in the future.
I guess greedy people getting big money are fat and happy now.... sad that they don't fix up the cities and create better lifestyles for their people. Give some of that BIG money to your people...
Looks much better to me then what it was before, the first 30 minutes at least which I believe is Otres area. Pretty much paradise looking place in my eye now. Before the beach was total shit show with all the resorts relaxin sewage straight to sea and so narrow beach area when all the resorts took all space on beach. th-cam.com/video/Ep5i9s_ANm0/w-d-xo.html and the next 10 minutes I'm pretty that point there used to be just empty beach. That was private land/beach owned by was it French guy. Now seems to be public beach which is much better than someone guy keeping itself
It was vibrant with loads of tourists and an amazing place, if you think displacing people from their lively hoods and making it the empty shell it is today with zero atmosphere and no tourists what so ever is better then your seriously deluded mate. Everyone has their own opinions on paradise I suppose.
Western people wanted Southeast Asian countries keep poor and undeveloped so that they can come any time to enjoy cheap food, accommodation, ladies, etc. Local people want good road, economic development, better life.
That might be true for some people but not all. Otres wasn’t that cheap. All of the locals I spoke to are absolutely mortified at what’s happened. If you watched the vlog and think that is economic development you’re seriously mistaken. Also generalising all western people to be the same is extremely short minded. I appreciate the comment, everyone has their own opinions. As far as the ladies go I haven’t been with one since I’ve been in Asia and nor would I pay to go with one. Please try and stay open minded as I do. I am extremely grateful to the Asian people for allowing me to visit their country and I show that in all of my vlogs.
They didn't get a better life the chinese forced them out and took over. The locals wanted the barang tourist back not chinese colonisation.. your so wrong where sihanoukville is concerned
Haha give him a break ffs a few attitutde corrections (which he has clearly had) are character building. Its actually awesome to see someone doing media that is not SELF OBSESSED with their image. Fair play to him. But Rickety Parkinsons... remeber to feint and jab next time eh cuz.
Bet your no painting keyboard warrior. The guys clearly done some hard yards... and maybe walked in a few yards. 'Knock knock'... 'who is there?'... 'W.urlitzer?' 'W.urlitzer who?' 'W.urlizer 1 for the money... 2 for the show... I got all my teeth so knock em out blow by blow'.
outstanding work again pal i visited sihanoukville around 14 years ago and like your self thought it was beautiful i had a friend who visited around 4 years ago didn't stay was horrified with what had become of the place checked out of hotel and went to kep thank you for showing it how it is i think i will remember it as it was and not bother coming back
Thanks Nick, it is shocking mate. Such a shame. I’m in Kampot at the minute. It’s lovely and relaxing here.
OMG NOOOOO! I had no idea this happened. I went to Otres 1 like 8 years ago for two days and ended up spending two weeks. I just couldn't leave. It was so magical! I stayed in a little bamboo hut on the beach at a place called Moms. This is so sad.
It is terrible mate, was heartbreaking to see. I think I was there about the same time.
Hi Richy, It's not possible to polish a turd! You're correct some Cambodian Officials have sold the people down the river! The Chinese were to build 60 Hotels/Casinos, mostly employing Chinese construction workers and solely for Chinese guests. In December 2018 I stayed for 2 days at Sahaa Beach Resort on Otres Beach, (which was great) luckily away from the town centre where their were fields full of dumped building materials. I had travelled from Siem Reap to Phnom Pehn and Kampot. I will never return. As if the Cambodian people haven't had enough shit to deal with!
Best wishes from Bangkok.
Thanks David, it is crazy mate. I can’t believe the Cambodian people aren’t kicking off, corruption is rife.
I was living in snooky in 2017,its changed so much,after the Chinese invasion I went to live in siam reap, love the place, been in in Thailand now since November 2022,in jomtien, going back to Cambodia in January 2024,back to siam reap.
I'm a new subscriber,great channel keep em coming mate.
Thanks Anthony, I like SR but the tuktuk drivers can be a bit full on. I’m in Kampot at the minute and I love it here. It’s so relaxing.
Hello, the scenery is really fresh and happy with you❤❤
Thank you😎❤️
Hello Richy love your videos and insights into SE Asia im a Brit like you and counting the day to my retirement in March! I’m lucky I’m retiring at 55 and I intend to live in the Philippines after a slow tour around Thailand, Cambodia, Malaysia and Vietnam so your content is perfect! What the story with the Thrudark baseball hat? Thanks for everything your doing and who knows maybe our paths will cross for a pint and a chat sometime
Brilliant Tony, love hearing from people who are taking the jump. First person who has clocked on to my cap👍🏻. Someone asked about the emblem. I love my climbing and been outdoors, I bought loads off Thrudark but there no use in Asia. No better place to buy your gear other than the guys who lived and breathed it for years🏴
but ,a fascinating vid ,shows it as it is ,great stuff ,thanks
Thanks Ian, I always show it as it is mate. Good or bad you get the true picture.
Watching this video making me want to cry 😭 this beach was once a very popular and beautiful place 10 years ago. It’s my romantic love place with my girlfriend watching a fireworks at the end of the year. We have good memories there together but now it’s ruined 😢💔 Angkor Wat and this beaches have made lot of money for Cambodia but now they have destroyed 💔
I know what you mean, it is heartbreaking mate🥲
@@J_River
It's insane.Its true,and both saddens & sickens all who love Thailand
Thank you - for your recommendation Richy- it's very kind from you for a list!⛱
No problem mate, sorry I couldn’t pronounce your name properly. Being from the north of England we tend to say it as we see it👍🏻🇳🇱
Yeah i understand: in a Neterlands ''J'' have other it's like "Y' ) @@ParkinsonRaw
that's good to know, thanks buddy👍🏻
@@YomijnMe
The entire beach area has been completely ruined thanks to some gready individuals. Just 10 years ago it was paradise.
It was mate, heartbreaking to see.
Great take on Sihanoukville Richy.Thanks.
Thanks Paul, it was by no means easy but people have got to start highlighting this it’s out of control in Asia mate.
The food market was the sea before backfilled and 3 months later made a road and walkway
@@peterward9755 shocker mate.
2007 when I was there. Chicken farms and everything. Happy days. Aye, looks terrible now like.
It’s insane Steve, broke my heart going back. I sort of knew what they’d done but speaking to people who lived through it and had their lively hood taken away, really brings it home the sheer destruction.
You need to send me a copy of your book btw, Darren was telling me about it.
I have lived in east Thailand for the past 21 years, bordering Cambodia . Look at that hotel resort ,fantastic building . People built that , most probably locals ,being paid sweet FA
It is mate, but an eyesore from what it used to be. from what ive been told a lot of chinese labourers were brought over to build. If that's true its even more of a kick in teeth for the Cambodian people.
Hello mate! I can’t believe the state of the place! Do you remember FootPrints Hostel? I think it was on Otres 2? The whole place had such a vibe….i just can’t believe it 😢 thanks for the video though…appreciate it!
Hi mate, it was shocking to see. I don’t remember footprints, I always stayed at sea breeze on Ortes one. Hopefully they’ll get it sorted in the future, thanks👍🏻
@@ParkinsonRaw how about Kerfuffle? 😂 I assume that’s stopped too. Did you ever go?
Me and the Mrs will be coming to Cambodia next year, going to rent tuk tuks and drive them around 😂
I’m not sure to be honest🤣 tuk tuks sound fun though watch the roads they’re horrendous still.
Kerfuffle was the jungle rave? It had the ferris wheel in there….nuts! Have a good day buddy and thank you for replying
Another great blog Richy. Sihanoukville was my paradise and I used to go there two or three times a year from 2002 - 2015, as I lives in Thailand full-time. Amazing what has happened and I agree with all the other peoples' comments on its destruction. Don't know what the future is for the new Chinese Cambodia is, but it doesn't look rosey.
Thanks Andrew, we live in hope mate. After other countries see their total disregard for Cambodia they think twice about opening the door. And also for the Cambodian’s they can recover and get back to business and the tourists can return🇰🇭🙏🏻
How long will it take before they ruin Kep / Kapmot .
Is it starting to happen ?
@@julienfroidevaux1143 hopefully not it’s a beautiful City, I really enjoyed it there.
Otres was our groups favorite place there too. Beer, beach food vendors, happy people, etc.. Once it was sold out to Chinese casinos.. it went to hell.
Shocking mate, as stupid as it sounds I was brought to tears when I returned.
@@Cohowarren
urgh.I live in Philippines in Taal/Lemery a farm & fish village.We are only 15 miles from the volcano. If you plan to live in Philippines it is wonderful ; just be sure to not live near any volcanoes.The air is being riddled with sharp,silicate crystals ..that end up in the lungs
Damn sorry your trip to the beach was a pain to see hopefully the beach gets help soon, gov care the least what a shame 😢
Thank you, it is a shame mate🥺
Whatever happened to the chicken farm? That place was gangsta!!
All gone Sia, they’ve bulldozed everything.
Sad to see Richard and it’s all down to money and the people who suffer is the Cambodians 😥
It is June, it’s not like these people haven’t been through enough and then they get all the corruption still🥺
@@ParkinsonRaw sadly this is happening all over there will always be greedy people 😢
@@JuneOyston it is unfortunately June☹️
You see this in a lot of places in Cambodia and Laos as well! When Chinese investors/people come, it al goes down hill really fast!
It’s shocking mate
I was there two weeks ago and was disgusted at what Sihanoukville has become. That beach Otres was always vibrant with beach food outlets, now the place is deserted. So sorry for the Cambodian people, now one big Casino city. Horrible.
It is horrible to see mate, I loved this place and they’ve wrecked it.
Been twice there before Chinese investors got it . Won't be going again, I feel for the local Cambodians who got moved on .this what you get with corruption in government. The Chinese want to own every thing.
It is unfortunately mate, the south of Cambodia is amazing.
i stayed in otres beach in november 23,my first,and last visit to sihanoukville,it was like something post apocalyptic,people there are struggling to make a living,i cant see things changing in the near future,so sad to see this part of cambodia.
It is Peter, such a shame mate.
Hi Richy. Were you expecting it to be as it was, or did you know it has been mostly abandoned? It's such a shame to hear because watching your video, I could imagine the area thriving.
Hi mate, it was awesome back then. No I heard about it but didn’t want to see vlogs and be disappointed until I seen it myself. Otres is totally cleared. The whole beach front has been taken away for miles, I couldn’t imagine it was going to be so bad.
hi man i remeber it 12 years ago good fun drinking beer in all the bars on the beach 50 cent pints ice cold lovly girls super chap food my room was 5 bucks a night and over to the islands to smoke it up
Heartbreaking mate, I loved it there.
In Vietnam they did this to Mui Ne and they are currently doing it to Phu Quoc island.
Its unprotected greed. Nothing wrong with a touch of development but if they dont regulate it then this happens.
It is shocking Leigh, it’s happening all over Asia and Africa. Money talks unfortunately.
Went there first 2012, beautiful 😍 sitting on serendipity beach eating prawns and drinking beer 🍻
Went again 2018 holy f*ck! Went straight to Koh Rong island for our 3 day, kr was still good but even though I live in Cambodia I have no intention of going back.
It is such a shame Pete.
Last time i was there it was boxing day and they were bulldozing down bars that day peak holiday time. There were places with doorman they would only let the chinese in. . Never will i go again so sad for the locals
It is horrendous mate, can’t believe the people aren’t kicking off in numbers.
@ParkinsonRaw Chinese paid of all people of influence. Most locals couldn't afford the new rents and left. Modern day colonisation
@@grahammurray7426 it’s insane how they can get away with it, the lad I was talking to said the was loads of deaths by wreck less Chinese. All they had to do was to pay the dead persons family $10,000 and it was brushed under the carpet.
@ParkinsonRaw yes my mate lives in kampot now he left snooky said it was mental chinese wannabee gangsters running amok
@@grahammurray7426 I was getting that impression from the locals
Let this be a lesson to the precious Koh Rong island which is still thankfully stunning and untouched. Watch out for the Chinese they will pour concrete on it, have more awful casinos, karaokes and be slurping noodles all day as they avoid the sun.
Let’s hope it stays like that mate.
What happened to all the bamboo bars and restaurants,the music, the deck chairs on the sand, 30 years ago it was paradise for pennies,beach hut $3 night, beer delivered to your deck chair 50c ,and any other thing you desire.
It was amazing Peter, absolutely everything has been demolished now though. Shocking mate.
I remember otres village about 8 or 9 years ago.. 1 bar.. very chilled.. I knew the bulldozers were imminent but, bloody hell it's terrible.. I will not be returning.
Hi Jim, it is shocking mate to put it mildly. I couldn’t believe it.
Lived there for 4 years I had to move to Thailand in the end
I know what you mean Peter, that said I’m Kampot now and it’s amazing. I love it
looks like they removed the vibrancy that made that area buzzing! now it look like a sprawling metropolis that everyone is trying to escape lol smh
Just any other beach with no identity isn’t it Mickey.
Pls go to koh rong for nature . City need development pls understanding .
Unfortunately I haven’t got time mate I’m on a tight time line. I have just arrived in Kep.
Please someone help cambodia come back again! It’s slowly being taken over! I last went 6 years ago and there were so much construction. It was scary. It was also difficult to find a place to check in if you’re not chinese.
I couldn’t agree more, such a shame.
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🤣thanks Robert, I do like to keep everybody informed👍🏻
great show, it looks a lot like parts of Cuba, where the Chinese have run with there cleaned up $
Thanks Kelly, Cuba as well. They need stopping, it’s shocking ruining economies.
you're a builder! respect. earned living with your hands, not like the commie speculators
Thanks mate
There must be a load of Squatters in these abandoned buildings. I know in BKK the emptt buildings near the tourist hot spots are full of them eg khosan building sites.. lot of fun talking to the squatters in them... unlike squatters in my own country... (they meet ppl like me😊).
Best have a beer mate before u go from Richy Parkinson to Rickety Parkinsons!
Just so you know they are not prawns. They look similar but they have very nasty 'blades' on the sides of the head. They do not taste the same as prawn but have a unique crustacean taste different from prawn crab crayfish and lobster.
They are nasty little things to handle live. I am unsure of their khmer name I am sorry as I only know them by the Thai and Aussie name. Aussie: Thumb Splitter.
Stomatopod. Pissin cray as they shoot water. Taste like a soggy crayfish.
@@peterRobinson10101 thanks Peter that’s good to know mate. I did see squatters in the few I could see into.
4 x12 is 57 ,easy !
hahaha another case of my head turning to mush when the camera is on me. Usually good at maths too😂
look, I was there 20 years ago. I was also in China 20 years ago, it look just like it does now. Give it 5 years you'll be eating these words. Cambodia with the help of China will blow our minds. Visit China! And this is coming from an Australian, Im not Chinese. Invest now!
I’m always sceptical when someone starts a message with look, it rude where I come from. What I was saying was I was there in 2016 and the change is chalk and cheese, it looks like it’s being destroyed I wasn’t talking about the future. I will be visiting China at some point.
@@ParkinsonRaw go and look at photos of Shenzhen in the year 2000, it looked a lot like Sihanoukville, look at it now... All this anti China narritive that we keep being exposed to is straight out of the CIA. They bombed the living daylights out of Cambodia, couped prince Sihanouk, replaced him with general Nul and then did this (note below) After that we in the West do not have the right to an opinon... Our leaders altered the History of the entire region, yet the powers allow us to forget and most dont even know, and yes this is all related because theyre trying to attack the Chinese of their own territory right now - Taiwan and SO CONCERNED about the Chinese rebuilding the nation! Everything we know or believe is the product of our own industry of endless War. This is why our popular beliefs and understanding focus on the superficial and short term view. Its also why we dont like our History...👇👇👇
Operation Eagle Pull -12/04/1975
'Twelve helicopters, bristling with guns and U.S. Marines breached the morning horizon and began a daring descent toward Cambodia's besieged capital. Residents believed the Americans were rushing in to save them, but at the U.S Embassy, in a bleeding city about to die, the ambassador wept..."
"We'd accepted responsibility for Cambodia & then walked out without fulfilling our promise. That's the worst thing a country can do," he says in an interview in Paris. And I cried because I knew what was going to happen.'
John Gunther Dean
Former U.S Ambassador Phnom Penh
'Children and mothers scrambled over fences to watch. They cheered, clapped and waved to the 360 beefy, armed Marines. A Cambodian military policeman saluted Armstrong smartly. Disgusted and ashamed, he dropped his helmet and rifle, leaving them behind.
I tried to avoid looking into faces of the crowd. Always with me will be the children's little hands aflutter and their singsong "OK, Bye-bye, bye-bye."
By 12:15 the last helicopters landed on the deck of the USS Okinawa waiting off the Cambodian coast. Tactically, the 2 1/2-hour operation had been flawless.
In Phnom Penh , Douglas Sapper, an ex-Green Beret who stayed behind to save his company's employee, recalled the reaction of Cambodians who realised what had happened: "It was like telling a kid that Santa Claus was dead.'
The U.S Admin under Nixon & Kissinger knowingly gave rise to the Khmer Rouge.
But to add insult to injury, in the 1980's (after the genocide) then U.S President Ronald Reagan sent in the CIA and military units to covertly support and train the Khmer Rouge. When the heat in Central America got to hot for Reagan, fearing more bad press, he handed Cambodia off to the UK's Margaret Thatcher who did the same and supported the Khmer Rouge after they murdered over 3 million Khmer in peaceful Cambodia. 🇰🇭💙❤ DON'T THINK I'VE FORGOTTEN!
-US led WARS, BOMBING CAMPAIGNS, INVASIONS - AND MILITARY INTERVENTIONS
Attempted Sabotage, Coups and Destabilisation
Since WW2 - (NOT INCLUDING RESULTING GENOCIDES)
China - 1945/46
Syria - 1949
Korea - 1950/53
China - 1950/53
Iran - 1953
Guatemala - 1954
Tibet - 1955/70
Indonesia - 1958
Cuba - 1959
DRC - 1960/65
Dominican Republic - 1961
Vietnam - 1961/73
Brazil - 1964
Republic of Congo - 1964
Guatemala - 1964
Laos - 1964/1973
Brasil - 1964
Dominican Republic - 1965/66
Peru - 1965
Indonesia - 1965 - Coup
Greece - 1967/74 - Coup
Guatemala - 1967/69
#Cambodia - 1969/75 - (knowingly gave rise to the Khmer Rouge AND then supported, armed & trained even after the genocide)
Chile - 1970/73
#Australia 🇦🇺 - 1975 (Gough Whitlam - CIA & MI6 backed COUP over Pine Gap, the Vietnam War AND Whitlam beating Nixon to China!)
Argentina - 1976
Angola - 1976/92
Turkey - 1980
Poland - 1981
El Salvador - 1981/92
Nicaragua - 1981/90
Cambodia - 1980/95
Lebanon - 1982/84
Granada - 1983/84
Libya - 1986
Iran - 1987/88
Libya - 1989
Phillipines - 1989
Panama - 1989/90
Iraq - 1991
Kuwait - 1991
Somalia - 1992/94
Iraq -:1992 - 1996
Bosnia - 1995
Iraq - 1998
Sudan - 1998
Afghanistan - 1998
Yugoslavia - 1999
Afghanistan - 2001
Iraq - 2002/03
Iran - 2005
Somalia - 2006/07
Honduras - 2009
Libya - 2011
Ukraine - 2014 - Coup 👈👈👈
Venezuela - 2018
SYRIA - 🇺🇲 Backed rebels
YEMEN - 🇺🇲🇸🇦 (US Backed genocide)
ISRAEL - 🇮🇱🇺🇲 (Ongoing Apartheid over Palestine)
Republic of Haiti - 2021
Cuba - 2021
Ukraine - 2022
Pakistan - 2022 - Coup
Peru - 2022 - Coup
Georgia - 2023 - unrest
Sudan - 2023 - Coup attempt
.
DRONE STRIKES -
USA - tens of thousands
CHINA - ZERO (and no Wars since 1979)
You should have seen it in 1997.
Good or bad Jeremy? I'm thinking good because it would of being generally untouched, as it was when i went in 2016
It was amazing then .a sleepy seaside village. I used to love it so much, it's destroyed now by the Chinese investors @@ParkinsonRaw
Stop them its a disgrace you have to tell people
I had to highlight it on the channel, people need to see this stuff. Corruption is rife
Look like telavif
It’s not a good look for a seaside resort is it mate, I thought I was like Baghdad after the war. Shame it used to be a beautiful City, hopefully it can get back to its former glory in the future.
A sithole
It is now mate unfortunately
China ville
Definitely mate
Sacrilege 😥
It is Kelly unfortunately🥺
I guess greedy people getting big money are fat and happy now.... sad that they don't fix up the cities and create better lifestyles for their people. Give some of that BIG money to your people...
Power is greed mate, hopefully the people will stand up and be heard.
Looks much better to me then what it was before, the first 30 minutes at least which I believe is Otres area. Pretty much paradise looking place in my eye now.
Before the beach was total shit show with all the resorts relaxin sewage straight to sea and so narrow beach area when all the resorts took all space on beach.
th-cam.com/video/Ep5i9s_ANm0/w-d-xo.html and the next 10 minutes I'm pretty that point there used to be just empty beach. That was private land/beach owned by was it French guy. Now seems to be public beach which is much better than someone guy keeping itself
It was vibrant with loads of tourists and an amazing place, if you think displacing people from their lively hoods and making it the empty shell it is today with zero atmosphere and no tourists what so ever is better then your seriously deluded mate. Everyone has their own opinions on paradise I suppose.
Western people wanted Southeast Asian countries keep poor and undeveloped so that they can come any time to enjoy cheap food, accommodation, ladies, etc.
Local people want good road, economic development, better life.
That might be true for some people but not all. Otres wasn’t that cheap. All of the locals I spoke to are absolutely mortified at what’s happened.
If you watched the vlog and think that is economic development you’re seriously mistaken. Also generalising all western people to be the same is extremely short minded. I appreciate the comment, everyone has their own opinions.
As far as the ladies go I haven’t been with one since I’ve been in Asia and nor would I pay to go with one. Please try and stay open minded as I do. I am extremely grateful to the Asian people for allowing me to visit their country and I show that in all of my vlogs.
They didn't get a better life the chinese forced them out and took over. The locals wanted the barang tourist back not chinese colonisation.. your so wrong where sihanoukville is concerned
@@ParkinsonRawwell said mate
@@grahammurray7426 that’s exactly what I was told by the locals graham
Yes please 🙏 😂😅
no dentists there apparently
Loads of them, cheap too
Haha give him a break ffs a few attitutde corrections (which he has clearly had) are character building.
Its actually awesome to see someone doing media that is not SELF OBSESSED with their image. Fair play to him. But Rickety Parkinsons... remeber to feint and jab next time eh cuz.
Bet your no painting keyboard warrior. The guys clearly done some hard yards... and maybe walked in a few yards.
'Knock knock'... 'who is there?'...
'W.urlitzer?'
'W.urlitzer who?'
'W.urlizer 1 for the money... 2 for the show... I got all my teeth so knock em out blow by blow'.
Worstest Place on Earth
It has been destroyed unfortunately mate, hopefully they can get it sorted soon.
Looks like Cambodia might be leaning toward another rouge wave.
I can't see that tbh mate, This is happening in a few countries in Asia and Africa.
Cheers@@ParkinsonRaw... I appreciate your content very much, new sub here ... I dig your style and your respectful, honest perspective. Very cool.
@@thekeeler846 thank you I really appreciate it👍🏻