Cruising through Cambodia
Yesterday we left Phnom Penh 9am to go to the city Battambang, Cambodia's second largest city (but only about 130 000 people), 30km northwest of Phnom Penh. Turned out to be a quite boring place, few bars, few points of interest and few people- The bus ride was ok, a bit bumby as usual. Same same , but different - one of our more popular sayings on this trip. Because on the bus ride, we met a Cambodian girl, who's been living in France for the past 6 years - Dara. She ended up being our tour guide in Battambang. She showed us around for a few hours and then three of us had dinner. We were suspicious in the beginning, since we haven't met very friendly locals so far. But she was the real deal and helped us a lot in Battambang!
So anyway we departed from Battambang about 7 am. And the boat ride was...awesome! Took us about 8 hours to get to Siem Reap, but we had beautiful weather on the way. Sunny, not a cloud and perhaps about 30C. We sat on the roof of the boat, where there were no seats (or railings) but that wasn't a problem, just had to hold on a little now and then. The best part about it though, was the scenery! It was amazing. We started out by going along the river floating through Battambang, which led us further out into the wetlands that is the "outskirts" of the huge lake between Battambang and Siam Reap. We got to see vast areas of trees growing right out of the water and floating villages. The boat went through unbelievibly narrow pathways through the vegetation on the water, forcing us to dodge branches on the roof of the boat! It was a great boatride, and after 8 hours we had reached our destination - Siem Reap!
Enjoying the cruise.
This is how narrow the river was in a few places!
Houses on stilts - this is how people live here.
Marcus & cambodian gangsta'!
One of the "floating" villages we passed.
On the boat we met a friend from Hoi An - Sophie, from England. Sophie and her boyfriend Simon are on route to see Angkor Wat as well. We joined them in the same Tuk-tuk to Siem Reap city centre and we're now staying at the same hotel. Tomorrow morning at 5 am (!) the four of us are going to watch the sunrise in Angkor Wat and then spend the entire day there! Gonna be legendary!
/C&M
So anyway we departed from Battambang about 7 am. And the boat ride was...awesome! Took us about 8 hours to get to Siem Reap, but we had beautiful weather on the way. Sunny, not a cloud and perhaps about 30C. We sat on the roof of the boat, where there were no seats (or railings) but that wasn't a problem, just had to hold on a little now and then. The best part about it though, was the scenery! It was amazing. We started out by going along the river floating through Battambang, which led us further out into the wetlands that is the "outskirts" of the huge lake between Battambang and Siam Reap. We got to see vast areas of trees growing right out of the water and floating villages. The boat went through unbelievibly narrow pathways through the vegetation on the water, forcing us to dodge branches on the roof of the boat! It was a great boatride, and after 8 hours we had reached our destination - Siem Reap!
Enjoying the cruise.
This is how narrow the river was in a few places!
Houses on stilts - this is how people live here.
Marcus & cambodian gangsta'!
One of the "floating" villages we passed.
On the boat we met a friend from Hoi An - Sophie, from England. Sophie and her boyfriend Simon are on route to see Angkor Wat as well. We joined them in the same Tuk-tuk to Siem Reap city centre and we're now staying at the same hotel. Tomorrow morning at 5 am (!) the four of us are going to watch the sunrise in Angkor Wat and then spend the entire day there! Gonna be legendary!
/C&M
Kommentarer
Postat av: Frasse
Jag vill se bild på Dara!
Postat av: Marie
Vad underbart det verkar, speciellt med båtturen!
Kram
Postat av: Christina
Ser verkligen härligt ut! Finns det fisk i sjön? Lever folket på det kanske? Härlig bild på dig Marcus och den lille killen:) Ni ser ut att må gott allihop. Ha det!
Postat av: Zoran
Kan ni vara så grymma att åka till Bangkok utan att visa oss bilder från Angkor Vat(mest fantastiska religiösa tempel i universum)????
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