Tam Biet Vietnam, Sawsadaa Cambodia!
The newly liberated girl power group; cycling to empower women set off for a day of variables….
The boarder crossing entailed 2 hours of paper shuffling and a dramatic difference in the landscape as we stepped foot across the boarder.
Gone was the hustle and bustle of a city racing to modernise, ahead, fields for as far as the eye could see, salt pans on one side, rice fields on the other. The first 17km cycled on Cambodian soil were extremely bumpy, orange and full of some of the happiest people you have ever met.
The Khmers are minimalists, not by choice, however, are extremely welcoming and excited to have new faces cycle through their villages.
Waves, smiles and hellos became an immediate part of the cycle challenge. The sealed road came just at the right time as many butt cheeks had received a good pounding and the pot holes were only getting bigger. A great pace was set, ensuring that we all lasted the distance, another 40 degree celsius day, and at 1130 am this can sap even the most finely tuned athlete of all their energy. After 3 rest stops, durian biscuits (YUCK), lots of water and litres of sunscreen we arrived into the beautiful beach side town of Kep, made famous for its crab! Everyone has fallen to bed, exhausted, no, actually delirious - but proud and more determined more than ever to successfully complete each days challenge as it comes.
Gone was the hustle and bustle of a city racing to modernise, ahead, fields for as far as the eye could see, salt pans on one side, rice fields on the other. The first 17km cycled on Cambodian soil were extremely bumpy, orange and full of some of the happiest people you have ever met.
The Khmers are minimalists, not by choice, however, are extremely welcoming and excited to have new faces cycle through their villages.
Waves, smiles and hellos became an immediate part of the cycle challenge. The sealed road came just at the right time as many butt cheeks had received a good pounding and the pot holes were only getting bigger. A great pace was set, ensuring that we all lasted the distance, another 40 degree celsius day, and at 1130 am this can sap even the most finely tuned athlete of all their energy. After 3 rest stops, durian biscuits (YUCK), lots of water and litres of sunscreen we arrived into the beautiful beach side town of Kep, made famous for its crab! Everyone has fallen to bed, exhausted, no, actually delirious - but proud and more determined more than ever to successfully complete each days challenge as it comes.
