Mittapheap Hotel
Travel Blogs from Kampong Cham
A very different island life
... back by the workers who hadn't finished building it yet! Hot and sweaty, we made it to the ferry and waited about twenty minutes for it to fill up. In this time we met a Cambodian lady and her relatives. She was treating her family to a day out, she lived in Australia and was back visiting them. Her and her young nieces were very friendly and they told us about the island we were heading to. She told ...
Ports and Beaches: Cambodia's South
... on the right direction we stopped for breakfast. As with Laos, the baguettes are great in Cambodia and seem to the only only real legacy of the French period in Indochina. We soon left Phnom Penh behind and were making relatively good time despite the poor road conditions. We had planned on heading due south to Takeo, a mere 78km away. This would give us a chance to break our newly replaced chain and cassettes in, and of course ourselves after our longest period out of the ...
Kampong Cham
... diverses, attelages de boeufs ...), avec les petits commerçants dispersés le long des voies rurales ou agglutinés aux carrefours urbanisés. - Première découverte de la campagne, plaines immenses et immensément plates dont chaque pouce de terrain est occupé par des rizières - 80 pour cent des terres exploitées - mais aussi par des champs de lotus, cacahuètes, noix de cajou, tabac, hévéas, ...
Day 52, 53 Kompong Cham
... outside that winded down the trunk
of the tree ending at a bowl that had been attached.
A
few hundred meters further down the road was the Chup Rubber Factory.
We each payed $1 admission and they gave us visitors passes. At
first, the place looked abandoned and we were wondering if we had
been scammed. After a few minutes of walking we came to the building
where they were processing the rubber. The raw rubber ...
Busreis tussen de sprinkhanen en pruimtabak
... te kauwen, terwijl ze ons blijft aanstaren. Je kunt met dit goedje blijkbaar heel oud worden. En je blijft er lenig van, want ze zit na een uur of twee nog steeds vrolijk met haar voeten op de bank en haar knieën naast haar oren. Vol is hier overigens een relatief begrip. Als alle zitplaatsen bezet zijn, worden er kleine plastic krukjes tevoorschijn getoverd. Die worden in het gangpad gezet. Zo kunnen er nog best 20 mensen ...