Well had a good night sleep, which I think has help, feeling better today, so it was off to the border 50km to the border then 50km to Sisophon in Cambodia. I had a bit of a later start, up at 6am and off by around 6:30am stopped in at 7 eleven as I needed water and some supplies and then hit the road.
The road was pretty flat and I was making good time, so stopped for breakfast, back on the road and the rain started to come down, lucky for me it was not to heavy so carried on, made it to the border in pretty good time. At the border it was manic, trucks, cars, people with carts and all sorts.
Thai border control was easy enough, Locked my bike outside then went in and got my passport stamped and then went back and went to head through the car lane, then someone yelled at me, lucky for me I had left my passport in my pocket, as I realized this might happen that they thought I had not got my passport stamped, so after I pointed to the stamp I headed on through.
Once out of Thai border control I made my way to the Cambodian side of thing, this was completely crazy, there was no real signs on where to go or anything, I started to head one way then someone called me back over in the other direction for a health check, so that done they pointed me to visa issue office. That done with no problems but some off the Immigration guys looked like they had just walked out of one the two casinos after a all night drinking binge.
As you head out you have to ride in between two big casinos with people falling out of them. It is really a bizarre place, one you have these big Casinos and then you have these people pushing rickety old carts full of vegetables, and big trucks belching black smoke all going passed these casinos. Once through all that I stopped at a bank and got some money changed. The Thai baht I had left I got back in Riel and I also changed some travelers cheques which I got in US dollars, so now I have to work everything out in two currencies.
After this it was back on the bike and hit the roads, have to say so far they are really good, straight, flat and went I say flat I mean flat, in fact looking out across the paddy fields you can see the curvature of the earth the land is that flat. I powered out along the roads and got in behind a Tractor trailer combo. It took the guy a while to see me then once he did he started speeding up and then slowing down, the only reason he slowed down was because his trailer started rattling itself to pieces.
I trailed him for a couple of kms then turned off for some lunch, it was point and shoot time again, and managed to get some fried rice with Chicken, well I am telling myself it was chicken anyway. Not really sure, it was tasty though so that’s all that really matters. After lunch I figured it was another 20 or so km to my stop for the night.
I made it to Sisophon in good time and found a guest house it took me a while to find out if this was the town I wanted as there was no English spoken, but they do read English. So I am in Sisophon I dropped my washing off across the road with the help of a young fella I arranged to pick it up at 8pm that night.
I spent the rest of the afternoon relaxing and reading, after dinner I went and checked on my washing it was still all wet so have left it there till tomorrow morning, hopefully it won’t be too wet in the morning. Only have 90kms to ride tomorrow so it is a easy day or hopefully will be easy anyway.
Thursday, June 4, 2009
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