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Kampot and Kep
It's been a while since my last update - primarily because I got lazy. This past weekend I took advantage of another bank holiday and headed south (towards Vietnam) to see Kampot / Kep. Rumuor had it that everyone else in Cambodia had the same idea (more on this later). Last week was busy as I got to play ultimate Frisbee with the Phnom Penh team ( …
Cambodia: Day 9 Kampot
... throughout town. We stayed at Orchid Guesthouse, after arriving with no reservations but a sense of the area we wanted to stay in. Orchid Guesthouse is a series of shady little bungalows in a garden setting with a thatched roof cafe and yes, A/C. Brian usually insists that that is his only request, and this time, with the 90 degree temps and 80% humidity....I agree. Blissful Guesthouse, set across the street, was ...
(Not so) Easy Rider
... upright again, started it after a few attempts, and we set off again, with Dan’s laughter still ringing in my ears.
We finally located the secret lake, there was a causeway which we drove the bikes onto and then rode around the edge of the lake, but it started to spit with rain so we turned back. At the causeway I stopped to wash the majority of the mud from my bike, and then we had to decide where we were going to head next. ...
Wet and Wild
... up to around fifty kilometres an hour (I know, you serious bikers out there are laughing right now, but after what we had just been through on our first day, this seemed like light speed). Sadly, this did for Dan’s fuel, so we stopped at a ‘filling station’ whilst he purchased the extra litre required. We then rode along the mercifully dry Sihanoukville road and turned right into the ‘Bokor National Park’, paying the two thousand Riel ...