May 2014 archive

Day 15 – The circus

If you haven’t read it yet, here it is: why this trip ! Back to Phnom Penh today I got to know that in the city a famous circus was performing. So I decided to get a ticket to watch the show. The performers were all young Cambodians who do this as job. This circus …

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Day 14 – The rainbow

If you did not read yet, here it is: why this trip ! Today I started my way back to “Phnom Phen”. According to my plan, I should have covered the whole distance in one day driving, but unexpectedly after one hour a nice and refreshing rain came. I decided then to stop for a …

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Day 13 – Bambù Train

If you haven’t read it yet, here it is: why this trip ! In Cambodia people are experts to recycle the most unthinkable things. For example, they create ships from the remaining fly bombs. Also they created a nice tourist attraction from a dismissed railway. Today I decided to try the “bamboo train”  with some …

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Day 12 – Bats a lot of bats

If you haven’t read it yet, here it is: why this trip ! Today I went to visit a couple of interesting places around Battambang. The first place was a cavern which sadly was used by the Pol Pot’s regime during the genocide. People were thrown down the cavern to be killed. This is not …

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Day 11 – Batampang

If you did not read yet, here it is: why this trip ! After exploring the beautiful temple of Angkor today I directed my motorbike again to the south. After four hours driving I arrived in Batampang which is the second big city in Cambodia. Here I will spend a couple of days exploring around …

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DAY 10 – Here it is… not only Angkor !

If haven’t read it yet, here it is: why this trip ! Here it is: the famous Angkor! What you see in the Lara Croft movie is even more impressive in reality. Today I walked around for twenty kilometres in order to explore some of the main temples. The area is really wide and it …

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Day 8 and 9 ”root 64” always straight

If you haven’t read yet, here it is: why this trip Yesterday and today, I had compared the previous days a very easy day, but I have to admit a bit less exciting. The road to ”Siemrip” is in fact very straight built up by chinese government. After talking with a local he explained to …

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Day 7 – Monk, this is for you !

If you did not read yet, here it is: why this trip ! Funny, today I enter in a little tample just to rest and see the drowning inside the tample. After few min a young monk approach me to speak a bit together. He is a teacher and he teaches the buddism to other …

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Day 7 – From ”Siem Rang” to ”Stung Treng”

If you did not read yet, here it is: why this trip ! After crossing the jungle, today I decided to take it very easy and just reach the next bigger city ”Stung treg” The landscape is very flat and the road has no pavment, but is really fun and easy. Here a nice ”lotus” …

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Day – 6/b ”This I will never forget”

If you did not read yet, here it is: why this trip ! Today after finding the way to cross the river, I had the most exciting experience untill now. In order to arrive to the next city according my map I had only to drive 80km, but what in the map was not mentioned …

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