Arriving into Cambodia was a relief after a couple of weeks in Vietnam, people here smile rather than grimace at each other so the atmosphere is a whole lot friendlier! We've spent a few days on the usual tourist route in Phnom Penh and Siem Reap and have headed here to Battembang to escape the crowds. We hired a bike today, the first time we've had one with gears, and had a tour of the countryside. We had a ride on a bamboo train which is effectively a bamboo bed with wheels and a bike engine that runs on tracks. It was quite hairy going over the bridges. Then we just had a tootle around and wherever we stopped the kids would come and say 'hello, goodbye'; the only English they knew.
We're off to Bangkok tomorrow and then we'll wind our way down through Malaysia to catch our flight to Bali.
Angkor Wat - the eighth wonder of the world and surrounding temples.
Ta Prohm temple, where tomb raider was filmed.
Bamboo train in Battenbang.
It's rainy season across south east Asia at the moment, we hadn't seen that much rain until we got here. It rains a lots in Battenbang (near the Thailand border), in fact so much that we were wadding through the streets in knee deep water trying not to think too much about what might be floating in it! This photo is before the water became so deep that the bikes had to drive on the pavements.
Biking in Battembang.
