Cambodia part 2
A week of sightseeing, cycling, camping, cycling and more sight seeing.
Cambodia has a lot to offer we’ve seen Irrawaddy dolphins (Showaddywaddy Doplhins, according to Gary, although I didn’t see them dance or sing), cycled up one of the few mountainous areas in Cambodia, been on a motorbike tour to a waterfall where Gary got to swim with some monks and visited traditional villages, we’re now in Phnom Penh the capital of Cambodia, which is a lively city with a lot to offer including the thought provoking and harrowing Prison 21 and the killing fields.
For the first time since India we had to camp on route to one of our destinations, we’re a little rusty but apart from the heat and lack of water and having to cycle with no water or breakfast it was an enjoyable experience.
Tomorrow we will head towards the South West Coast to do some more Island hopping, after all it is a holiday before heading to Siem Reap to see the temples.
Hope you are all well and enjoy the Halloween Weekend
Love Ginette and Gary
- Irrawaddy Dolphin in Mighty Mekon
- helming again
- blagging a go on tuk tuk
- this a motorbike trailer shop
- Not an uncommon sight- child on a drip on a motorbike
- this is called using your initiative
- loading our bikes on to the ferry to an island with no cars
- yes Gary your mouth is big enough
- baby shoes
- modern transport
- Very posh house – these are very rare
- Red soil and monument with a soldier on the top
- village industry – cutting sticks from large logs by hand with axe
- not so posh, posh house but with satellite dish and solar panel
- how many bikes can you fit on the back of a bus?
- camping on the edge of the jungle
- sunrise – a sleepless night due to noise and heat
- healthy breakfast – I think not
- wonderful wiring held up by a pack of noodles
- another waterfall – the stunning Mayura Waterfall in Cambodia
- Gary centre of attention mixing with the young monks
- Monk praying at the waterfall
- traditional village home
- Wrinkled old skin and a big nose, and an Elephant – Gary
- posh way round Kaoh Trong island so much easier without the panniers
- Street named after a Bomb disposal engineer murdered by Khmer Rouge, from our local town of Backwell.
- Prison 21 – Genocide Museum Phnom Penh
- memorial at the biggest Killing Fields site Cheoung Ek Genocide Centre
- memorial contains the skulls of some of the people killed at the site, gruesome memorial but very fitting.