Last time to enjoy a pot of green tea on the beach – leaving back for Kampot today. We will meet Thearan in Sihanovkuille, he is a tour guide for offroad trails, working for straydogs. He needs to go to Kampot anyway and we decided to team up.
Straight out of town onto a fairly easy/fast mud road – and his bike died in the first deep mudhole.
An hour or so later we had to cross 3 rivers fairly much next to each other. By then my bike has developed the habbit of cutting out and the battery was not getting charged properly either.
We got the bike going by exchanging batteries with Lutz’s bike and at least we could go on. A bit further on Lutz had a fall in a deep mud section and seems to have hurt his back somewhat. But cant stop here and not too bad.
We lost Lutz an hour later because he decided to drive ahead (we were going on the tar road at the time) and we wanted to take another trail. We waited for a while then decided to go off on our own – wld meet up again in Kampot at Stefan’s cinema.
Nice fast ride on very narrow tracks through rice fields and remotest villages (we of course slowed down then and a lot of waving to kids) for about an hour before back onto the tar road.
Looking foreward to a dry hotel room – been driving in the rain for the last couple of hours and walking in rivers don’t help either – boots filled to the brim. And anyway, clothes didn’t get a chance to dry over last few days anyway. Some of the stuff is really starting to smell real bad …
Booked into Paris Hotel for the usual 8$ a room and enjoyed the first warm shower in cambodia. Pizza with Stefan and then back to the hotel. Might try some new trails around Kampot tomorrow 😉
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