After two months of absence, vacation during the holidays, it resurfaced for updates as some of you, dear friends and associates of our trip, gentian have so claimed. Location
geo-tourism
In two months, bicycle, motorbike, tuk tuk, boat, bus, car and motocross, we almost went around Cambodia. We renewed our tourist visas 1x, then the time we are at Aranya Prathet (Thailand) border town Poipet (Cambodia) for a 3rd visa which will allow us to return to Phnom Penh (at this stage, we must leave the country to be able to return).
Sianoukville From Kho Kong, Kampot and Kep Phnom Penh, I take the stories from the capital. From there, follow our adventures to Kampong Cham, méMOTS, Battambang, Siem Reap, Phnom Penh and then to return to Kampong Cham, Kratie, Ratanakiri, Mondulkiri (...) So you guessed it, Laos and Viet Nam will for an upcoming trip. Cambodia has won our hearts. Started in the land of Khmer!
For what started? Necessarily made by the lovely gatherings in Phnom Penh who incidentally have their share of responsibility for the break of the blog, but oh so rewarding ... but good times! It all began in what has become for us the institution of breakfast: The Shop bakery, # 39, st 240. Sipping coffee and croissants, my darling and I read it. Me: Visions of Swedagon, a Burmese writer and Felix ended There will be no paradise. Eric attracted because he recognized the book Kapuscinsky , author he likes, ate at the table nearby. French, he lives in Shanghai has worked in Cambodia. He is back for holidays and we discuss all of Africa, Montreal, Haiti, etc.. The breakfast stretches, another coffee toh Som, som cafi Mouy. Suddenly he says with excitement in his voice:''You must meet
Reggie is a Haitian friend who lived in Montreal! "
- What? A Haitian Cambodia yes Oh, oh, but of course we want to meet him!
Phone call, rv later for dinner in a restaurant on the banks of the Tonle Sap Street Sisowath.
Happy meeting: Dr. Reginald is project manager for an NGO. Olivier is with him, a French who has been managing 16 months an Association for Rural Development in Kampong Cham (AMICA). These three friends have submitted their warm surroundings. Since we shared with them the pleasures of life in Cambodia. Youppi! It's fun to make new friends!
Kampong Cham ...
The same evening, we take a taxi to Kampong Cham with Eric, located 3hrsde
road east of PP Along the Mekong River, this city has few buildings of colonial architecture, charming, she welcomes us with a pleasant breeze caress our faces. We eat and make the party at the Mekong Crossing, the best restaurant bar in town. Oliver and Reggie are in the game, they both work at K C. The resto-bar is run by Joe, a Philadelphian who loves super friendly cause with American football ... you know who.
... and days
The bike is the preferred means of transport for Cambodia. We cross the bridge that connects the bamboo shore to an island. This bridge was rebuilt after the annual rainy season. From a distance, when compared with the monster concrete bridge built by the Japanese, its structure resembles a construction match girl! Nothing to fear, under the wheels of the bike you can feel the bamboo trunks lashed and nested by the thousands move like waves moving through solid desssus River. The sun sparkles on the water, a sense of freedom overwhelmed me. I think that the Mekong is the bearer of life for 50 million people. Is that this river is generous! From its birth in Tibet, he toured China, Thailand, Laos. In Cambodia, it is almost 500 km and then go through the south of Viet Nam and emptying into the South China Sea. Thus, it offers its water and its creatures to the people around him. More and more hydroelectric dams being built on its waters ... what are the consequences for those who live and survive every day with him?
Island on the bank of the Mekong
must pay a dollar or two to get to the island's peaceful across the bridge of bamboos. Here, the dry season does not affect the verdant rice fields. The villagers maintain their land very well and many fruit trees grow here and there. Species of giant cows (ébeus) all white and upper legs ruminate on before the simple wooden houses on stilts along the dirt road. The butterflies flutter around us, as if to welcome us. Some horses graze peacefully small, rather rare to see in Cambodia. What a beautiful ballad!
geo-tourism
In two months, bicycle, motorbike, tuk tuk, boat, bus, car and motocross, we almost went around Cambodia. We renewed our tourist visas 1x, then the time we are at Aranya Prathet (Thailand) border town Poipet (Cambodia) for a 3rd visa which will allow us to return to Phnom Penh (at this stage, we must leave the country to be able to return).
Sianoukville From Kho Kong, Kampot and Kep Phnom Penh, I take the stories from the capital. From there, follow our adventures to Kampong Cham, méMOTS, Battambang, Siem Reap, Phnom Penh and then to return to Kampong Cham, Kratie, Ratanakiri, Mondulkiri (...) So you guessed it, Laos and Viet Nam will for an upcoming trip. Cambodia has won our hearts. Started in the land of Khmer!
For what started? Necessarily made by the lovely gatherings in Phnom Penh who incidentally have their share of responsibility for the break of the blog, but oh so rewarding ... but good times! It all began in what has become for us the institution of breakfast: The Shop bakery, # 39, st 240. Sipping coffee and croissants, my darling and I read it. Me: Visions of Swedagon, a Burmese writer and Felix ended There will be no paradise. Eric attracted because he recognized the book Kapuscinsky , author he likes, ate at the table nearby. French, he lives in Shanghai has worked in Cambodia. He is back for holidays and we discuss all of Africa, Montreal, Haiti, etc.. The breakfast stretches, another coffee toh Som, som cafi Mouy. Suddenly he says with excitement in his voice:''You must meet
Reggie is a Haitian friend who lived in Montreal! "
- What? A Haitian Cambodia yes Oh, oh, but of course we want to meet him!
Phone call, rv later for dinner in a restaurant on the banks of the Tonle Sap Street Sisowath.
Happy meeting: Dr. Reginald is project manager for an NGO. Olivier is with him, a French who has been managing 16 months an Association for Rural Development in Kampong Cham (AMICA). These three friends have submitted their warm surroundings. Since we shared with them the pleasures of life in Cambodia. Youppi! It's fun to make new friends!
Kampong Cham ...
The same evening, we take a taxi to Kampong Cham with Eric, located 3hrsde
road east of PP Along the Mekong River, this city has few buildings of colonial architecture, charming, she welcomes us with a pleasant breeze caress our faces. We eat and make the party at the Mekong Crossing, the best restaurant bar in town. Oliver and Reggie are in the game, they both work at K C. The resto-bar is run by Joe, a Philadelphian who loves super friendly cause with American football ... you know who.
... and days
The bike is the preferred means of transport for Cambodia. We cross the bridge that connects the bamboo shore to an island. This bridge was rebuilt after the annual rainy season. From a distance, when compared with the monster concrete bridge built by the Japanese, its structure resembles a construction match girl! Nothing to fear, under the wheels of the bike you can feel the bamboo trunks lashed and nested by the thousands move like waves moving through solid desssus River. The sun sparkles on the water, a sense of freedom overwhelmed me. I think that the Mekong is the bearer of life for 50 million people. Is that this river is generous! From its birth in Tibet, he toured China, Thailand, Laos. In Cambodia, it is almost 500 km and then go through the south of Viet Nam and emptying into the South China Sea. Thus, it offers its water and its creatures to the people around him. More and more hydroelectric dams being built on its waters ... what are the consequences for those who live and survive every day with him?
Island on the bank of the Mekong
must pay a dollar or two to get to the island's peaceful across the bridge of bamboos. Here, the dry season does not affect the verdant rice fields. The villagers maintain their land very well and many fruit trees grow here and there. Species of giant cows (ébeus) all white and upper legs ruminate on before the simple wooden houses on stilts along the dirt road. The butterflies flutter around us, as if to welcome us. Some horses graze peacefully small, rather rare to see in Cambodia. What a beautiful ballad!
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