Dear all,
Despite being quite tired after the 100 km cycled yesterday, our plan was to get up before the sunrise and cycle into the capital while the temperature allows to have a pleasent ride.
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| Peter Lamb and the first sunrays, early morning |
We stopped at a local market to buy some food for breakfast (I found some grapes for about 4€/kg, but it was exactly what I wanted)! We bought also some bread, which I think that they add some cocconut milk or something similar, as the bread is quite sweet. They have written in the bread something in red ink but we could not really understand what was it.
we saw as well how the ice is distributed around here. Unfortunatly we have no pictures, but the procedure is quite simple.
The ice is brought in small sized trucks and it comes in bars, about 30x30 cm and about 5 meters long. Then the buyer (usually a person who sells cold drinks) asks for some ice and that long bar is cut by using a manual saw. We have been told that the ice machines are really old, used since the French were colonizing Cambodia.
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| The local market where we stopped for some food |
There was also another thing which was quite shockimg to us. Imagine the following: about 20 small trucks just with the cabin and with the back open. Now imagine between 30 to 50 persons, mostly women, standing in there, some holding some bars to keep the balance and some holding to the ones holding the bars. And this is how factory workers come to work every day. We do not have pictures of it.
The cycling day would not have much to tell, but then suddenly Chan showed up on his scooter, having his grandmother as passenger. Chan was quite talkative and it was nice to have a chat while ridding.
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| Peter Lamb & Chan |
Chan speaks good English and he is going to improve ot even better as he is going to Australia next year to be with his family and study English. Cheers to that Chan!
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| Marta, Chan & Peter Lamb |
We found a coffe in the outskirts of Phnom Penh with internet, so we stayed for some time, waiting for the temperature to lower a little bit, as it would be hard to get into the city in rush hour and under the intense sun and temperature it was.
We found out that the couch request we have sent has been declined, as he was already hosting some other couchsurfers. We sent some more requests, knowing that it would be hard to get accepted for the same day, but maybe we would be lucky for the following ones.
As the time was passing by and we did not have any positive answers, we decided to head to the city, going first to a bike shop and asking if they would have two bike boxes that they could give us or sell to pack the bikes on Monday for the flight to Singapore.
The traffic is very intense and it does not really help that on the street shoulders (which does not reaaly exist, there are comming loads of scooters on the opposite direction. Of course that they do not use helmets and they hirn all the time, wich makes it very tiring after 15 minutes ridding in such an environment)! The videos shows much more than the pictures, but here it goes some of the pictures taken
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| Peter Lamb & Marta trying to cycle withing the intense traffic |
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| One scooter facing us |
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| Traffic in Phnom Penh |
We found on internet the shop Vicious bike shop, located on street 144, which would be quite convinient for us, as would be on our way to the city.
They said that they could disassemble the bikes and put them in bike boxes for 12 Dollars per bike (not a really bad price, but could be chaper I think). We asked if they could arrange some transportation to the airport and they asked for 25 dollars. Ouch, that will bring the total cost up to 48USD! Ok, let us think about it and if we accept we will be here on Monday morning!
As we still did not have any positive answer from couchsurfers we head to a hotel and we found out that the rate for walk-ins was lower than on Booking.com (15USD for a double room with Aircon and ensuite bathroom. Ah, the hotel has a swimming pool, but we did not use it).
We booked just for one night, hoping that maybe some couchsurfers would invite us to their homes the following day.
Summary of the day:
- Daily distance: 55,5 km
- Daily time: 3h10m10s
- Average speed: TBA
- Maximum speed: TBA
Total travelled so far: 645,15 km
Total time cycling: 38h01m35s
And that is all for now folks!
Best,
Peter
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