Day 5 (4th cycle day): Cambodian 70km cycle from Phnom Penn to Kampong Thom

 

Leaving Phnom Penn by ferry across the Mekong where we’ll meet up with our bikes for Cambodia.

 

 

A short walk to the new bikes

 

After a very short ride called into a home silk works where they breed silk worms, collect their silk and work them on the spinning machines & looms to make a variety of silk items (which conveniently they sell around the back 😊)
 

Lunch stop at one of the many Budda temples, this time as well as the usual selection of mini banaas etc, had a type of Lychee

Coffee stop when passing a cafe

An example of a typical convenience, familiar with the ‘hole in floor’ loo, but here it seems unusual to be plumbed in, there is a tank and a pan for you to scoop a suitable volume of water & drop down the hole:

There cows are really skinny, used for their work & food but not milk; that also use Water Buffalo.
   

Rice fields

 

An old derelict Dragon boat laying in a temple shed

The paths we rode were often lined with Banana trees, in this case they were fruit bearing mango trees

 

 

We reached the end point where the bikes needed to be loaded onto a truck for onward transport as we were taken to our overnight hotel by coach (was too far to ride).

Then we were ferried across the Mekong again: