Cambodia continue

Hi folks,

We are finishing our third day in Laos. Great country that, but we shall start by finishing up our story from Cambodia.

Sunday,

Got up before 5 AM to go and see the sunrise at Angkor Wat and to get a early start for a long riding ahead of us that day. The sunrise with the Wat in front was stunning.

Our route this day was to head into North West and get onto a road that is not on the map. A local dirt rider guy recommended us to take this road. So me, Viggo and Nick eat a lot of dust this day riding for 12 hours on dry gravel roads. But the scenery and the roads were superb. Viggo had his first crash in a sandy riverbed. Nick must have been so sure he was going to fall off there that he got it on film. With just minor scratches on his knee and bike Viggo was better than before the crash. After “just” covering 350 km this day we got back on the main road after this big loop off. Dirty, tired and happy we went early to bed.


Monday,

Drove the main road to the capital city, Phnom Penh, to get visas (landvistarleyfi) into Laos. I managed to drop the bike into before leaving. I just wanted to be sure I would be able to raise it up by my self. Nick drove half way with us but then he went his way up north. The road was fine tarmac the whole way until the last 10 km maybe into the city the road did turn into and wide really rough gravel road. The traffic was pretty chaotic there but being on motorbikes it is so easy to zik zak past the traffic avoiding being in line maybe for hours. We met a nice tuk-tuk driver when we got into the city that followed us to our hotel and drove us then to the Lao embassy. In the evening we went to see two documentaries, one about the mines (jardsprengjur) here in Cambodia and the other was about the genocide by the Khmer Rouge (raudu knerrarnir). Not nice stories those.

Tuesday,

Got up in the morning and took the bikes to a guy named Tony that lives here in Phnom Penh and has motorcycle workshop. He changed motor oil, oil filter, adjusted the engine valves and adjusted the rear spring by one cm. While the bikes did recive their service we went to explore the city and hired the tuk-tuk driver for the day. Started going to S-21, a old high school building that the Khmer Rouge changed into prison. This was there main prison where people where tortured normally before they were killed. Then we went to see killing fields. There people where killed and burred in mass graves, around one million of them. We could walk around the fields as well as look at a monument tower there with thousands of skulls. Ended the driving by picking up our visas into Laos in the afternoon. Also we heard that Nick had hit a cow on his bike that day and broke his wrist. Bad luck that.


Wednesday,

We drove up North towards the Laos border. We drove 470 km and stopped in Stung Treng 50 km from the border. We called Nick and he was on the hospital but hoped to get out today to head south and lay on the beach.

Thursday,

Got up in the morning and drove to the border to cross into Laos. We got stamp into our passport for departing Cambodia and where then pointed to see the custom guy to take care of the papers for the bikes. We went into his office with no papers and claimed we did not get any papers when we entered Cambodia the guys at the other border pointed us just to drive through. He was not happy and was trying to tell us inn his bad English that he needed customs papers for the bikes and we could not go through with the bikes. We would need to go back to Phnom Penh. But after arguing with him for about five minutes, playing really stupid and talk lot of Icelandic he suddenly gave up on us and just said. OK, just leave. Laos here we come……………..


Photos from the first three days in Cambodia are here. The rest will come very soon.