13. Costa del Thailand
From Chanthaburi we headed back to he coast on a cycle lane! There’s been quite a lot of these recently, though very very few cycles and they’re usually used by the mopeds and motorbikes to pootle along in. A proper protected cycle lane Once we reached the coast though the cycle path was a segregated cycle only lane, with a separate footpath and a moped lane. It had signs every few meters saying bikes only no parking and as cars the world over do, it was totally ignored unless it was physically impossible to get on to it to park due to a big curb. I have no idea if this is true,...
Read More12. Road? What road?
We reluctantly left our Christmas oasis of luxury in Phnom Penh after a lovely seven nights rest. Our journey from here takes us back westward to the coast. Once we reach the coast we only have one road option and that’s the main road and it goes up and down a lot. You know what we think of ups and downs, but far worse than this is that the road is being ‘resurfaced’. What the Cambodians mean by this is its actually being laid. The old road is what an estate agent would describe as ‘Laid to pot holes’, though this is stretching the term pot...
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The ferry into PP is an experience on its own. There are about 15 ferry’s, 2 of which are roro and the others are drive on reverse off ferries. No probs for a tandem or the millions of mopeds but there’s a single concrete ramp leading down into the water at each port and the ferries push and shove to dock right next to each other anywhere they can on this ramp. Cars and moped then fight to get past the other cars and mopeds trying to board outgoing ferries and men wave batons and blow whistles to try to control it all. It’s great fun to watch and we walked Tilly off...
Read More10. On a mission
The border crossing back to Cambodia was quicker than on the way in and the road back to Stung Treng was quiet apart from when we stopped for lunch just as the 122 Ford ‘IveGotATinyWily’ Ranger Wildtrack Frontier Pansy 4×4’s came past in a convoy with rally stickers on. They had to follow a police car which was doing all of 40kph which I’m pretty sure will have pissed off the convoy on this long straight empty road. The highlight of the ride for us though was bumping into a French family cycling toward Laos, 2 children – one on his own bike aged 9...
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