In Battambang we took a ride on the Bamboo Railway, the former transport way between Battambang and Phnom Penh. You ride on a bamboo platform placed on to pairs of wheels. In the old days it was manually driven, today they use a 6 Hp motor. It was pretty fun and the landscape was beautiful.
After the train ride (going back in rain) we visited the one and only vineyard in Cambodia and tasted their products; a red wine, a brandy, a grape juice and a ginger drink with honey.
I don't think I have to go in to details about the wine? Let's put it this way - I didn't buy a bottle...
In the afternoon me and S took a bicycle ride that we were recommended. Our guide, a uni student, took us 22km around the countryside where we visited small family businesses in their homes; rice paper, banana plantation,fruit farm, rice wine making, Sticky rice making and a Killing field from the Khmer Rouge regime.
It was a lovely and very interesting afternoon.
From Battambang we travelled to Siem Reap, where the highlight of the trip was to be visited, Angkor. We got there before sunrise and saw the characteristic silhouette of Angkor Wat with the sun slowly rising in the back ground. Amazing!
The Angkor are is huge, we visited 4 of the temples, Angkor Wat, Angkor Thom City with Bayon and one more that I forgot the name of and finally Ta Pram for our guided tour and a few on our own.
Bayon in Angkor Thom City was built with 54 gothic towers with 216 faces of the king.
It was amazing to walk around the remains of it.
Ta Pram is overgrown by trees and also amazing!
We ended this fantastic day with a helicopter flight over the area and got to see Angkor Wat in all its beauty from above.
What a lovely day!
That was the end of this part of the trip. We flew to Bangkok where the tour officially ended wished the rest of the group happy travels and closed that chapter and opened a new...
To be continued...
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