“A holiday in Cambodia....

....where people dress in black”

(as the song goes, though other colours are available).



All of todays photos have somehow got corrupted, I tried to download them from the cameras sd card and they all appear to have an error message with them so I’m going to post what we did without photos and see if I can sort them out –  anybody have any ideas as to how I can do it.


Shadrak our tuk tuk driver arrives at the hotel to pick us up and we’re whisked off on Kampuchean day out around Battambang, first stop is the bamboo train which is an ingenious mode of transport using an old decommissioned railway line, the stretch now in use is 15km long and links two villages, the villagers have made some small bamboo platforms which run on two train wheel axles, they are driven by a small motorcycle engine and is a great fun excursion.


We stop at the village where one of the local girls proudly takes us for a tour, she shows us their brick making kilns


The “trucks” for delivering the finished articles


Their corn field


And their python which lives in a crate.


Banan temple is next which has 358 steps leading up to it, Jo waits at the bottom while I battle the 35 degree heat.


Next we visit the nearby caves which are a lot smaller than the ones we saw back in Borneo but these small tunnels stretch to beyond the Thailand border we are told.


3pm and the heavens open, we are treated to the daily downpour, we take shelter in a cafe at the foot of a hill with our last temple of the day.






Next day and we leave Battambang bound for the capital Pnom Penh on what is supposed to be a five hour bus trip which following a puncture turns into a seven and a half hour trip as the bus driver struggles to find anyone on the roadside with a large enough wheelnut socket to remove the wheel, so we are reduced to a crawl for well over an hour until the wheel is replaced with what looks like a racing slick tyre.


We see some amazing sights on the trip to Pnom Penh the type of things you only see in a third world country, lots of recycling things and small roadside stalls selling and repairing everything you can imagine.


Cambodia is MAD !!!!! and we love it.


Ps now got the camera working again so expect photos from now on