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Travels around Cambodia in January 2014
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  • Visa kitten

    Visa kitten

    This kitten was running around people's legs as we were filling out forms to get our Cambodia visas. Not everyone loved that.

  • Scooter family.

    Scooter family.

    3 people to a scooter was very common. I think 5 people was the maximum I saw on one.

  • Bamboo Train

    Bamboo Train

    The bamboo train just outside of Battambong was the first excursion of ours in Cambodia.

  • Penny sunset

    Penny sunset

    At the end of the bamboo train line we stopped to look at the sunset.

  • Road rules

    Road rules

    They drive on the RHS of the road in Cambodia. 80% of the time anyway. Driving on the LHS was very common due to potholes, bikes in the way, cows in the way and because all roads appeared to be a single lane in each direction.

  • Transport

    Transport

    This type of road transport wasn't as uncommon as you may have imagined.

  • I’d seen loads of roadside places selling yellow liquid in soft drink bottles but hadn’t realised that it was petrol until I saw some being poured into a scooter.

    I’d seen loads of roadside places selling yellow liquid in soft drink bottles but hadn’t realised that it was petrol until I saw some being poured into a scooter.

  • Pub Street

    Pub Street

    The night time gathering place of tourists in Siem Ream.

  • Dan jumps

    Dan jumps

    Dan liked jumping in the air

  • Hot Dog

    Hot Dog

    A puppy hiding from the morning sun.

  • Angkor gate

    Angkor gate

    There were many diferent temples around the Angkor Wat area. I'm not even sure which one this is.

  • Crowd at sunrise

    Crowd at sunrise

    Some of the crowd waiting at the reflecting pool to see the sunrise over Angkot Wat.

  • New ruin

    New ruin

    There was a number of "ruins" that were being or had already been rebuilt. This complete statue is a reproduction.

  • Crickets for dinner

    Crickets for dinner

    Crickets and ... stuff ... were the appetiser at the New Hope training restaurant.

  • Dinner at New Hope

    Dinner at New Hope

    Group dinner at the New Hope training restaurant. http://www.newhopecambodia.com/

  • Dan finds a bride

    Dan finds a bride

    We ran into a few weddings on our travells. Here Dan tries to whisk a bride away from her groom.

  • Sarou's fish

    Sarou's fish

    Sarou catches a wodden fish.

  • Sugar Palm scepticism

    Sugar Palm scepticism

    Susanne doesn't like the look of the sugar palm water.

  • Irrawaddy Freshwater Dolphin

    Irrawaddy Freshwater Dolphin

    The dolphins weren't in much of a cooperative mood when we visited and didn't come near the boats.

  • FCC

    FCC

    The Foreign Correspondents Club. It's on all the Phenom Penh to-do lists so we ticked it off, for a couple of drinks anyway.

  • Dinner Menus

    Dinner Menus

    Menu's are in short supply and Alex looks on while Sam and Pera decide what's for dinner.

  • Angkor Beer

    Angkor Beer

    "Angkor" and "Cambodia" brand beers were ubiquitous. Generally costing USD$1-2 per can but occasionally you can get a jug or even a tower of the stuff. The cheapest beer we found was cans of "Klang" which were less than 50cents each.

  • Tuol Sleng prison cell.  There were about a dozen of these large interrogation rooms/cells.   When the Vietnamese army discovered Tuol Sleng, they found 14 bodies still in their cells.  The picture on each of the cell walls if of the last prisoner killed in that room by the Khmer Rouge before they fled.

    Tuol Sleng prison cell. There were about a dozen of these large interrogation rooms/cells. When the Vietnamese army discovered Tuol Sleng, they found 14 bodies still in their cells. The picture on each of the cell walls if of the last prisoner killed in that room by the Khmer Rouge before they fled.

  • Roadside breadseller.

    Roadside breadseller.

  • Flip-Flop moonwalk

    Flip-Flop moonwalk

  • Kick Boxing

    Kick Boxing

    Ringside seats at a kickboxing match. Sweet.

  • Fouled

    Fouled

    The first Cambodian kick boxing I saw ended in a disqualification after the second time blue-gloves put his knee into red-gloves' groin. Tough way to win a match.

  • Boxer

    Boxer

    We went to a kick boxing event and the second match was regular boxing. The crowd didn't really get behind this western style event.

  • Pre fight ritual

    Pre fight ritual

    All the figters had their rituals before each fight. Mostly bowing a praying with a the odd bit of posing.

  • Pepper farm dog

    Pepper farm dog

    This curious dog had the run of the farm.

  • Pepper farm

    Pepper farm

    Our tour guide, Sarou, translates for a woman who grows and sells pepper.

  • Kampot Pepper Man

    Kampot Pepper Man

    This fella was a worker at the Kampot Pepper Farm we visited.

  • Pepper farm cat

    Pepper farm cat

    There were lots of animals running free on the pepper farm.

  • Palace Graffitti

    Palace Graffitti

    I don't think this graffitti exactly enhanced the ruins of an old palace.

  • Cambodian Flag

    Cambodian Flag

    Images of the temples of Angkor Wat are all over everything in Cambodia. Their beer, stamps, their flag.

  • Sceptical kid

    Sceptical kid

    This kid got a banana from one of our tour group but I think he was convinced that I had some cash on me.

  • Leaping Dog

    Leaping Dog

    As I was trying to get close to this dog's face for a nice wide angle shot, one of the beggars who was following us about warned me that it was very "bitey". It looks so friendly though.

  • Old dude

    Old dude

    Some of the monks had been around the temples for so long that they had turned to stone.

  • Riverside sunset

    Riverside sunset

    I stopped at the end of the bamboo train line to watch the sun go down.

  • Bamboo Train Engine

    Bamboo Train Engine

    The engine of one of the "Bamboo Trains" outside Battambong

  • Head at the statue factory

    Head at the statue factory

    A small roadside factory was busy making statues of all sizes.

  • Angkor Wat wall carving

    Angkor Wat wall carving

    The outline of a window carved in the side of a wall at Angkor Wat.

  • Angkor Wat rubble

    Angkor Wat rubble

    Discarded stones block a path between two walls at Angkor Wat.

  • Angkor Wat tree

    Angkor Wat tree

    Trees crawl their way over many of the ruins at Angkor Wat

  • Salt Storage building

    Salt Storage building

    A large storage building at a Salt Farm just outside Kampot.

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    Road rules
    Transport
    I’d seen loads of roadside places selling yellow liquid in soft drink bottles but hadn’t realised that it was petrol until I saw some being poured into a scooter.