Biking and Bussing Through Cambodia
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Jan 22 - Mar 12, 2019 -- compiled by Jeff DePree Day 1: Arrival
![]() The impressive reach of Carolina bbq
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![]() Day 2: Phnom Penh
![]() No soup is complete without gelatinized chicken blood
![]() Tuk-tuk showroom
![]() Typical $1 meal
Day 3: Kampong Cham
![]() Fancy $2.50 curry with dragonfruit smoothie
![]() Famous Mekong catfish
![]() Ice cream on French bread
![]() Mile-long Bamboo bridge
![]() The hotel owner was very apologetic that all the $5 rooms were full and I had to pay $8 for the deluxe family room.
Day 4: Onward to Kratie
![]() ![]() ![]() Solitary mango enjoying the view.
![]() ![]() Day 5: Biking to Sambor
![]() Interesting temple artwork
![]() ![]() Floating village
![]() Taking my bike across the Mekong
![]() Clever engineering
Day 6: Ratanakiri
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() $3 bike rental
![]() ![]() ![]() Picnic at the lake
Day 7: Mondulkiri
![]() Each of these pots contains some hidden delight - you have to lift the lids to find out what is what.
![]() Local movie theater
Day 8:
![]() $5 bike rental
Day 9: Back to the Capital
![]() "Every room comes with a balcony"
![]() Public school turned Khmer Rouge prison
![]() ![]() ![]() When vegetarianism goes awry
Day 10: Sustainable Cambodia in Pursat
![]() The SC kids are big Pink Floyd fans
![]() Dinner that bites back
Day 11:
![]() ![]() Everyone still rides bikes here!
![]() ![]() Typical bike load
Day 12: Bamboo Train
![]() Bamboo train
![]() Rare white mini-buffalo
![]() This beer had a coupon for a free beer under the tab!
Day 13:
![]() Day 15: Siem Reap
![]() ![]() I'm all for saving trees, but there's no way I'm wiping my butt with these limes.
![]() Coconut milk dessert stand
![]() $1 smoothies!
![]() This guy's having a rough day
![]() Day 16: A little ways south
![]() ![]() Church sans chairs
![]() A bit like Bourbon Street
![]() Ubiquitous ice cream roll stand
Day 17: Beng Melea
![]() ![]() Efficient transport
![]() The Beng Mealea temples have seen better days
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Cambodia's Route 66 between Ta Prohm and Beng Melea
Day 18: Phare Circus
![]() You might be able to get a choco-peanut-banana frappe in the States, but it probably wouldn't cost $1.50 and it definitely wouldn't include a sprinkling of peanuts.
![]() Proofreading is always better with a craft flight at a brewery in a tropical paradise
![]() I tried to donate blood when I came to SR 13 years ago and found the hospital hallways to be littered with street dogs and the walls covered with bloody surgical instruments. They've made a lot of headway on their marketing since.
![]() Pretty common here
![]() Cambodia's Phare circus
![]() I started out my time in Siem Reap eating from sketchy buckets on the side of the road, but then I discovered that fancy restaurants were about the same price and promised fewer parasites.
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