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- Phnom Penh
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Travel Blogs from Banlung, Cambodia
A local Cambodian family to the rescue
We turned up in the evening after what seemed like a long bus ride. Once off the bus, we decided to get a lift on the back of two bikes. They were taking us to what sounded like a nice hotel, with all the amenities that we required, and all for ...
Jungle Trekking and Waterfalls
... pantos - James) and and lake (which is a volcanic crater) - (which is also amazing - you'd think you weren't in Cambodia, more like Switzerland minus the Nazi gold and creamy chocolate!- James). Unfortunately when we had a test drive of the motobike ...
Hello Moto
We checked for tours but didn't find any that were both affordable and of enough interest to us, so we borrowed a map and decided we would rent bikes and ride around to the various places of interest. We found one shop which rented bikes, then went ...
Laos in the morning, Cambodia in the afternoon
... our favourite sticky rice for breakfast before getting a boat back to the mainland at 8 am then a bus to Stung Treng in Cambodia. We had heard that this border crossing would be ínteresting and possibly more difficult than some of the others we have ...
Waterfalls elephants and a bit of swimming
Was expecting the worst roads ever with our trip to NE Cambodia to Banlung coz the guidebooks had said it, and no way we believed the bus ticket seller that it took 5-6 hrs. However no probs - guidebooks exagurate - well it was fine on the main road until ...
Aan de toeristen ontsnapt
De groep die die dag vanuit don det naar de grens ging, was behoorlijk groot. Iedereen regelt van tevoren een ticket naar waar ze naartoe willen gaan in cambodja, en het bleek al snel dat het overgrote deel naar Phnom Penh of naar Siem Reap(met de ...
Day 1 in Cambodia
Made Border crossing into Cambodia. Met the 2 french girls from the group, who were travelling on the same bus and to Banlung in Cambodia. Met the 2 other french girls I bumped into mostly when eating. We got the ferry crossing over to the mainland, and I ...
Waterfalls, lakes and accidents.
I got up sometime after eight in the morning. I tried to order some food in the guest house, but the girls english wasn't up to scratch, so I had to settle for a pancake with apple, and leaf tea with sweet milk, rather than the lipton tea I was trying to ...
day 328: rest of story
I forgot! I completely forgot to tell you about the spider! I didn't even remember when I searched my lovely Ecolodge room for the eight-legged creatures, nor when my hand went through a solid cogweb plugging in my laptop. I had successfully eliminated ...
Maybe we're just not meant to ride bicycles?
... nature. This was also the place where Tony heard from AFID (Accounting for International Development) with 2 options for volunteering in Cambodia. Boy, did he get excited!! The choices were either to be: - the 5th Volunteer at an NGO providing ear ...
The Power of Nature
After breakfast Darren headed back to the room. We've all had stomach pangs but his seem to be the worse. Alex and I jumped into a tuk tuk we'd already bartered to tour the three nearby waterfalls. The first wasn't too impressive high and narrow with ...
Day 281: Kratie - Bang Lung
... a satellite TV. There were lots of helpful information about the jungle trekking tours with homestead and buses to other cities in Cambodia or Laos on the wall. His wife also speaks good English and cooks excellent Khmer food too. It was ...
Hannah Montana of Cambodia
Banlung is worth it just for being a celebrity to small local kids!!! Everywhere we're turning up we get a "Helloooooo" from somewhere and it’s the cutest kid waving at you. And then the next one is the cutest and then the next. From toddlers to ...
Banlung
... for a lot of photos (and not asked on occasion!) as westerners in this part of the world is much more rare than central Cambodia. I was fairly ill for the next couple of days so missed out on some waterfalls, temples and jungley stuff but I decided ...
Borderline Cross crossing Cambodia's border
... . But oh well! I really don’t want to spend the night in a bus in the middle of nowhere, somewhere in northeastern Cambodia. There’s a spare tire on the back seat and the boot is full as well so Elijah, me and our two huge backpacks get ...
Chup Rubber Plantation
This is one of five rubber processing planes in Cambodia. It was built by the French prior to Cambodia becoming independent and is now a private run facility that pays the government fees. The factory was only partially running today since it is still a ...
Kratie-Ratanakiri, wieder richtig Cambodianisch
Als uns der Bus um 8 Uhr vor dem Guest House abholte, sah das eigentlich nicht schlecht aus, ein etwas aelterer Minivan, aber nicht schlecht. Dann fuhren wir mal 1 Stunde durch die Stadt (eine sehr kleine Stadt, wir fuhren aber zu ca jedem Haus) und ...
What a glorious morning!
The sun is shining, the temperature is perfect and there is not a cloud in the sky. I woke at 6 am and went for a run around the lake in front of our hotel. I saw a couple if tourist runners and a local taking his ducks for a morning walk. Came back and ...
Koupani v krateru
... jsme si to strihli kratsi, ale o to horsi cestou ke krateru, skocili par salticek (Jenda) a vydali se pokracovat chillouvat. Banlung je temer na konci sveta, cesta k nemu je strastiplna, ale toto misto ma ducha a urcite stoji za to sem ...
Ban Lung!
... party in innocence, not knowing the direction things would turn, and of course then they were practically trapped. What a fascinating country Cambodia is. It is, without doubt, my favourite country to date. I love the people who are gentle and generous ...
Day 56, 57, 58 Banlung, Ratanakiri Province
... day. Julia took a tuk-tuk back to our old hotel to get our bags and say goodbye to the french couple. Chris walked into town to buy a few things. We bought our tickets to Don Det, Laos, and the next day we will enter Laos and be finished with Cambodia. ...
Llegamos a Cambodia
... la salud mental. De todas maneras tratamos de que eso no afecte para formar una primera impresión. Decidimos empezar a recorrer Cambodia por un pequeño pueblo al noroeste, fuera del circuito turístico natural, seducidos por sus atractivos naturales: ...
day 327: 235 kilometres in 6 hours
Combine my days 146 to 149, when I was hiking on New Zealand's Stewart Island, deduct some of the mud, add some roots, potholes and red dust, then imagine me on the back of a dirt bike. The good news is: My feet are not hurting any more than before. If ...
Biking
... off for Banlung, which is in the far North East, had a 5 hour bus journey and this time the roads were really bad, apparently unpassable in wet season, but we got to Banlung around 1830, in the dark so got Tut Tuk to notel and will explore in the ...
A real adventure... Cambodian style
Banlung 25-29 Oct My first impression of Cambodia was not a great one. We booked a bus from Laos to our first stop in Cambodia, Kratchie but were hugely ripped off. We paid an extra £15 to be re-routed to Banlung after the ticket organiser said that ...
Inactive day
Due to my injuries I didn't get up to much. I got up for breakfast, and met the 2 french girls, Delphine and Florence, before they headed off on a 2 day trek, which I would have otherwise joined them on. I went back to my bedroom to keep cool, and read ...
Enter and exit planet dust
... and put on Mel Gibson's Apocalypto, Khmer dubbed and with English subtitles. Now this was fucking strange, almost everyone in Cambodia had lost a family member during the genocide and here they played a movie where people got killed and their hearts ...
Day 282: Banlung
We had a nice lazy morning and had breakfast at the restaurant of the hotel. We wanted to hire a scooter from the hotel but they ran out one so we went into the town and hired one for $4/day (cheaper than our hotel!). We ended up using $1 for ...