In Phnom Penh the traffic is pretty much fast & furious with the only rule being enforced is the use of headlights by bikes and other vehicles being verboten.
Unless you are a person of note.
The one frequent sight in Cambodia, is the number of luxury SUVs baring the number plates of the RCAF [Royal Cambodian Armed Forces].
Either the army is the most comfortably transported army in the world, or, there is a scam going down… This is not a multiple choice question!
PP Trafic is best seen here in this YouTube vid for the experience.
I had enough trouble staying alive to take more pix.
Whilst in Phnom Penh I had the rear rack reinforced by Bernard @ the Bike Shop.
A decent dirt riding Frenchman who ensures that customers’s bikes are professionally worked on – not a common practice.
Also, had an oil & filter change – using one for a car.
At the Palace - note the gaffer taped out headlight
Jessie flew in from Bangkok for 2 days R'n'R and bravely learned to ride the Scrambler sidesaddle
whilst giving encroaching motordop [scooter taxis] the death stare.
Great & plucky Gal!
__________________ The Dogs bark, but the Caravan moves on ...Eastern Proverb
The Tonlesap river flows past the city’s front meeting up with the Mekong.
The Tonlesap is one of the world’s few rivers that reverses its flow in the rainy season.
The point where the two rivers meet.
The ‘mountainous’ Wat Phnom after which the city gets its name
__________________ The Dogs bark, but the Caravan moves on ...Eastern Proverb
At S-21 the notorious TuolSleng Prison.
The beds for torture are a testament to the Khmer Rouge’s depravity.
some 2 million Cambodians are believed to have died - 25-30% of the population.
Just outside town is Chong Ek, one of Cambodia's many ‘Killing Fields’.
Here S-21 inmates were told they were being taken to a ‘better place’,
before being bludgeoned to death or having their throats cut.
But it is the innocuous looking tree with a small bucket of bones with a chilling sign, that makes one stop and wonder at
the callous madness of Pol Pot and his cronies.
Now a memorial stands surrounded by the pits were the victims were buried.
__________________ The Dogs bark, but the Caravan moves on ...Eastern Proverb
Now motoring up the road to Siem Reap and the great temples of Angkor Wat.
Some of the old carving skills are being renewed, having all but been lost when the Khmer Rouge tried to take Cambodia back to ‘Year Zero’.
Further along I came to this magnificent ancient Khmer bridge
Still being used by two-wheeled traffic at Kampong Kdei, that is hundreds of years - if not actually a thousand - years old, dating back to the times of Angkor!
__________________ The Dogs bark, but the Caravan moves on ...Eastern Proverb
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