Dear all,
We could not get up and be ready early in the morning, afterall we needed some more rest.
We were ready to go at around 7AM and in Cambodia that is way too late to start a cycling day!
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| Peter lamb in front of the guesthouse |
The guesthouse was quite ok and the owner's sun spoke quite good English.
I often take pictures of the road signs to remember where I stayed overnight. As I think that this one is quite nice, here it is (unfortunatly the kid's bicycle is cropped):
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| Road sign, Peter Lamb's shadow and a fellow cycler |
As the road sign shows, we are still 152 km short from Phnom Penh.
It was a rather uneventeful morning of cycling, taking some pictures along the way. Here you are some of the morning pictures:
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| Cambodia countryside |
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| Some people sell little sets of wood |
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| Primary school |
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| What's up Peter Lamb? |
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| Cycling on road number 5 |
This trip has been way different from last year's one, when I was cycling through the Baltic countries. In that trip I could cycle at any given time during the day. On this trip we have to cycle early in the morning (we try to cycle around 50km non stop - or short stops only for picture, or buy some water), followed by an extended break (I would say from about 10h30 to 15h30), and then cycle a bit more till we find a guesthouse.
For today's break we found a great spot, about 500 meters off the main road. There was a house, about 50 meters from the shoreline of a large lake and the house itself is supported by 9 colloums, creating a great place to set the hammicks under the house.
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| Having a rest |
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| Great spot for blogging, right? |
The wind was blowing from the lake, so the breeze even helped a bit more to cool us down.
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| Marta having a nap |
Just before leaving a couple of pictures more, from the best resting spot we have found so far!
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| Peter lamb |
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| Peter Lamb & Marta ready to cycle again |
After some kilometers of cycling we passed through a major city. We had cycled around 70km since our departure in the morning and it is that distance that it is still not enough to finish the cycling day, but you are crossing your fingers that a guesthouse will show up in the next 20km.
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| Independence monument |
Marta was getting hungry so we stopped by a restaurant for her dinner.
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| Marta having her dinner |
We got back to cycling, trying to speed up a bit to avoid cycling sfter the sunset, but that was not possible and eventually we cycled about 1 hour in the dark. The positive side of it is that the sky was full of stars. Pity that some cars were passing by from time to time, so the eyes connot really see all the visible stars in the sky.
In small villages we were asking people where we could find a place to sleep, but it was hard to understand if it was a matter of meters or still some kilometers left... When you have no other choice, you simply have to keep cycling till you find a guesthouse (and it was the second time I regreted that I did not bring my small tent for this trip)!
In one of the villages there was a young man that spoke some English and told us that the next guesthouse would be in Sala Lekh Pram, about 12 km away, so we still had about 40 to 45 minutes of cycling ahaed. I had my dinner, and we hit the road for the final kilometers of the day.
The guesthouse was very basic, but well, the cost was 5 USD!
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| Peter lamb, exhausted at the guesthouse door |
Summary of the day:
- Daily distance: 100,3 km
- Daily time: 5h41m23s
- Average speed: TBA
- Maximum speed: TBA
Total travelled so far: 589,65 km
Total time cycling: 34h51m25s
And that is all for now folks!
Best,
Peter
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