Next few days I was up around the north of the island. Some more pics.
^ This pic is dead in between Phu Quoc Island and the Cambodian coast. The southern tip of land you can see on the left of the pic is the most northerly tip of Phu Quoc Island … the land on the right is Cambodia’s Kampot province.
^ Apparently there is a big mountain on the Cambodia side … but these lovely looking clouds covered it up for the whole time I was there
^ The coastline up around there is mostly untouched apart from a few small shacks
^ The commune of one of the guys with me was up there and we were invited in for lunch … locally caught sea prawns, some of which were still kicking. They caught them by walking along the beach with a cast net
^ To save fresh water they cooked the prawns up in coconut water … they were the delicious. I thought it was going to be an alcohol free lunch until this showed up.
^ 20 litres of rice wine … it was at this stage I was starting to get worried about what was going to happen next as I was one of the only farang ever to visit the commune and some of the local elders had arrived to come and drink with me.
^ Anyway I did my best to line my stomach with prawns and fruit as quick as I could
^ The bloke second from right had worked as a fishermen up in Thailand and could speak a fair bit of Thai … fortunately he helped translate when the 20 odd glasses of wine I had started getting on top of me
^ The border army bloke from the day before even came to see us – he was really sick from the previous days drinking
^ Fortunately by the time we left we’d only got 2/3 of the way through the wine