After all that temple-trudging, the 5 boys (as well as the men and women) really deserved a paradise beach holiday. From Siem Reap, this requires crossing the entire country on its highways (a relative term) Read more…
Now with our expanded party of 9, we left the capital for Siem Reap ready to take on the hordes and elbow shuffle our way through the temples. We toyed with the idea of taking Read more…
We planned to ride a few more days to Phnom Penh and then pack up the bikes, so we headed in a roughly northerly direction and our faith in Lord Google was shaken… It turns Read more…
Where did we leave it? Oh yes, sitting on the balcony of the funny fucsia painted bungalow in Kampot, drinking a couple of beers while the kids slept and frantically trying to work out our Read more…
I’ve loved the song “Holiday In Cambodia” by the Dead Kennedys for almost 30 years and as we pedalled towards our destination I became stuck in a continuous mental song loop, leaving out the disturbing Read more…
So after Robbie’s slight downer on arrival into mass tourism we tried to keep our chins up between the “see it now while it’s still like this” urge and the guilty knowledge that we and Read more…
The Mekong Delta is great for bike touring as it’s totally flat and offers a chance to experience Vietnam in all its loveliness and weirdness. There are hardly any tourists apart from in certain spots, Read more…
Sometimes the distances between nice places are too long to expect a 6-year-old to pedal, so an overnight stop has to be made in a random location. Last night this place was a particularly yukky Read more…
The traditional way to buy and sell from wholesalers in this area is from boats in floating markets. The families live on board and travel around the delta on its various canals and Mekong tributaries Read more…
We spent the next few days meandering around several Mekong islands south of Ben Tre and West towards Vihn Long cycling through tiny dirt road and staying at rustic homestay farms and guesthouses en route. Read more…