Blogs from East, Cambodia, Asia - page 3

La première journée de pause à vélo, voila le genre de journée qu'on apprécie particulièrement à bases de blog, massage, resto, marcher, jus de fruit... La journée se finira dans le même lieu que le veille mais avec bien plus de monde et s'agit du dernier jour de la fête de l'eau. Cette tradition symbolise la fin de la saison des pluie normalement le lendemain des bateaux, radeaux partent pour la capitale mais cette année celle-ci fût annulé sur la capitale mais cela n'empêchera personnes de tout de même faire la fête au temple bien-sûr toujours le même groupe de farang ( Français en Cambodgien) va ce joindre à eux !... read more

La route continue pour nous il est temps tristement de dire aurevoir à nos hôtes et de continué à filer par le nord toujours à la recherche de beaux paysages et de belles rencontres! Notre prochaine escale ce fait à Chhlong encore un lieu ou ont risque peu de croiser des touristes ... Mais qui reste affectionné par les Cambodgien par sa paisibilité au bord du Mékong et sont atmosphère très sympathique et ces quelques anciens bâtiments coloniaux, malgrés l'absence de touristes la ville et suffisamment grande pour y trouver un petit hôtel à la Cambodgienne ! Voici une ville très typique du Cambodge avec de vieux bâtiments coloniaux au tour du marcher très bien investi par les locaux!... read more

Cabin seemed small on arrival but good storage. The boat is compact but comfortable with a nice dining room and a great Sundeck. We have visited many villages and temples in several towns such as Kampong Cham, Kampong Trolach, Phnom Penh (3 nights docked here), Tan chau, Sa Dec and Cai Be. All have their charms except Phnom Penh. We had several excursions there but it is probably the only place I would not return to for many years. A real discrepancy between haves and have-nots and no apparent effort by the Cambodian government to improve the situation. So far this trip our transportation methods have included: plane, buses, electric golf cart type vehicles, sampans, rickshaws, cyclos, riverboat, bicycle, kayak, tuk tuk, and some even did elephant. My favourite is tuk tuk. They go anywhere and ... read more

Today started a bit like yesterday, but after having some breakfast we booked a tuk tuk to take us to go and see some rare dolphins. The Irrawaddy dolphins are native to this part of the Mekong with only about 100 left in the world. The fresh water dolphin is very shy and its numbers have slowly decreased due to fishing nets and poisoning from the locals. Nowadays the Laos community fisheries and dolphin protection project compensate for any damaged fishing nets, so the numbers will pick up again. Being driven out to the next village about 15km away to then get on a long tail boat and taken only 10 minutes up the river we got our first sighting. Sitting stationary we waited while scanning the water and got a few more sightings of the ... read more

Having allowed ourselves a bit of a lay in we headed out for some breakfast at 11.00. Kratie ( pronounced Krachie) is a pretty small town sitting on the side of the Mekong river, in itself not too much to offer apart from in the surrounding areas where theres enough stuff to make it worth a visit for a day or two. Back at the only Cambodian/western restaurant in town Kate and I decided to hire pushbikes for the afternoon. Sitting in the Mekong adjacent to Kratie is a small island called Koh Trong and according to my book is definitely worth an explore on a bike for an afternoon - so perfect. Off we headed down a flight of steps to the boat and got on a waiting taxi boat, which only leaves when its ... read more