Our riding is dictated by the spread of towns along the highway, as some are too small to have any guesthouses for us. The day we left Phnom Penh was short ride to Kampong Speu (west) because of exactly this reason. We cycled past loads of garment factories, and as the day was just finishing saw busloads and busloads of women being driven from the factories back to home in time for dinner.
The following day took us to Sre Ambel. It was awesome riding as we had a great tail wind and had 70 km behind us by the time lunch rolled around! We polished off another 30km after a pile of fried noodles at a trucker stop, and had enough time in Sre Ambel to wander around the little town before night fell.
The next morning we headed north to our destination, Chi Phat. Chi Phat is a little village 17 km off the main highway that has been picked by Wildlife Alliance to be developed into an eco-tourism community. There was a bit of confusion when we arrived as we expected to take be able to take a lazy river boat from the highway to Chi Phat, and promplty found out the boat "sometimes run, sometimes no" which meant we were back on our bikes! It was beautiful, though tough, going through sugar cane fields.
We finished our cycle in, with only one hurdle left...crossing the river into Chi Phat....
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