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What's it like riding on a bridge made entirely out of bamboo? Here's a short video of the obstacles you'll face 2018 Addendum: We've just found out that the time we visited was the final year for the bamboo bridge. They've just completed construction on a permanent concrete bridge about 2 kms...

At several points in the bridge, they've built pull-outs to allow larger vehicles to get by The bridge is not only for transportation. We have to dodge scooters parked haphazardly along the length of the bridge, it's owners just abandoned them to go fishing off the side of the bridge or to go...

South of Kampong Cham is an odd structure. A bridge stretching across the Mekong River made entirely out of bamboo! We have stopped in Kampong Cham specifically to see and ride this bridge. Every year, at the start of the dry season, villagers construct this 1km long bridge entirely out of...

On our ride out of town, we see more houses on stilts I didn't know what crops these were until I did some Internet research. These are water hyacinths, and they're not a crop, they're a weed. Although they look quite pretty, this fast-growing species are everywhere, invading the waterways...

Neda liked the bright co-ordinated pyjamas that all the ladies wore when they were out shopping in the market Then I looked at our mud-stained riding suits and wondered how these ladies didn't get their pyjamas dirty while scootering through the wet roads?!? Not the most people I've seen on a...

The view from the rooftop terrace of our hostel I really liked staying in this rural village far from the big cities. In fact, I am liking Cambodia a lot more than Thailand. It's a lot less touristy here, and I like observing local people going about their day-to-day life, without feeling that...

Had some yummy fried rice as we waited out the rains from inside the restaurant The rains continue as we hop back on our motorcycles and continue southwards. It's another two hours of wet roads till we arrive at our destination for the evening. The tiny town of Kampong Cham. We are actually...

We've seen so many of these colourful tents on our way through Cambodia People in formal attire file into the tent, and we figure it out: it's a wedding! We've timed our arrival in SE Asia for the dry season, which is also the peak season for weddings in Cambodia. All those tents were people...

Updated from http://www.RideDOT.com/rtw/382.html We've spent three amazing days in Siem Reap visiting the temples at Angkor Wat but now the countdown on how long we can stay out of Thailand is slowly ticking down menacingly. We're feeling like there's just so much to see, and not nearly...

Too true. Simple is better when you're on the road.

You should definitely do it! Exotic and safe, with great food!

Thank you, her ankle is much better!

Saying farewell to the Angkor Watt complex I asked Neda what she thought of Angkor Wat. She replied, "You know the temples are amazing, but what made it special was that we were riding around them on our motorcycles!" Totally agree! What fun!

Another smiling face in the temple. Looking up at the Khmer stone faces, both in real life and on the blog page! A shrine set up inside Bayon Riding away from Bayon

There are lots of these giant stone towers on the upper terrace, containing two, three or more often, four faces - one on each side of the tower There are over 200 smiling Lokeshvaras carved into the 37 towers up here. There might have been more stone towers (maybe up to 49 of them), but some...

More free parking for our motorcycles. And we have shade too! Inside Bayon temple The name of the temple is a mispronunciation of "Banyon", a type of fig tree that takes root in the cracks and crevices of other trees or stones. It's also called a "strangler fig"... Ah ha! But there are no...

I read that these trees are all decayed. I dunno, they look pretty alive to me... The tree roots are everywhere. They pop up out of the ground in between the stone tiles. I was just thinking to myself, if you weren't looking down, you could trip over one. And just then, I see Neda stumble...

Inside, we find another alien covering the temple with its own ooze Inside Ta Prohm's narrow passageways Barriers have been set up to prevent people from climbing all over the tree roots. They're now just as important as the temple is. Especially to the tourism industry!

Anywayz... back to the treez I also found out that it's not one type of tree invading the temple. There are a few species that botanists have identified. I like the name of one of them: the Strangler Fig. That totally sounds like the title of an Angelina Jolie film. I'm going straight to IMDB...