Month: May 2023
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Three days in Phnom Penh
We stayed three nights in Phnom Penh, wanting to explore the city and also make sure we could get the bikes boxed up and ready for our flight home. The hotel we stayed at (The Pavilion) was a like an oasis filled with palms and greenery, offering two lovely pools, an attentive staff and a…
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Last Day cycling in Cambodia: Into Phnom Penh!
Today, we’re riding into Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia. It’s our last day riding in Cambodia, which is both exciting and sad. Today’s ride is about 65 miles and we’ll need to figure out a couple ferries along the way. We’ve been told that Phnom Penh is a pretty cool city, with a vibrant…
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A Day in Kampong Cham: the Bamboo Bridge
We stayed a couple nights in Kampong Cham, and so could spend an entire day exploring this small city. Kampong Cham is not a major tourist city, but has a few things that it’s known for. It’s population is mostly Cham, a Hindu minority in Cambodia. Women wear head scarves and you can see mosques…
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To Kampong Cham, on top of a tuk tuk
We stayed in a town called Stoung for the night, getting up the next morning at 4:30AM to beat the forecasted heat. People get up early here, maybe especially when it’s hot, so the staff of the hotel was up and ready to get us some coffee at 5:15 and then we took off. We…
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Hello Hello! & into the dusty “real” Cambodia!
With some regret, we left the hotel in Siem Reap. The place was amazing and comfortable, the staff so friendly and accommodating, the food tasty and the final bill for 6 days lodging, a few meals and quite a few drinks was $270 total! We should just live here. But we decided to ride down…
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The Grand Circuit
The Grand Circuit travels to less visited temples in the area, so we did that the day following our visit to Angkor Wat. We are experiencing a bit of temple overload but we want to pack in a bit more before we head towards Phnom Penh in a few days. The days are flying by.…
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Siem Reap & Angkor Wat, Cambodia: First 3 days!
Neither Chris nor I had ever been to Cambodia, and so we didn’t really know what to expect. However, on landing at the Siem Reap airport, we both noted how well-kept the airport was. It looked and felt like a smaller airport in the US, and everything was super efficient. Passport control was a breeze…
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Final stats and thoughts on biking Vietnam
We didn’t see a single cycle tourist in Vietnam, and that was both a surprise and a shame. We expected to see at least some intrepid Dutch or German cyclists, but there were none! Vietnam is a pretty cool place to cycle tour. It has a huge number of small roads with little traffic, good…
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A few days in Dalat
We stayed three nights in Dalat. Probably from our life in Colorado, we expected a cute little mountain town, but it’s actually a pretty big city, about 300,000 population and quite busy. Dalat is at about 5,000 feet elevation, so it’s much cooler than the coastal areas, which was great. Southeast Asia was in the…
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Last day cycling in Vietnam!
A month goes pretty quickly, and we’ve only scratched the surface of seeing Vietnam, but our 30-day visa will expire in a few days and so we need to get outta here! We both feel like we’ve gotten to know a bit about Vietnam in the last weeks, but we also know there’s a lot…