Last Day in Phnom Penh - walk Monivong Blvd

This was just a comedy of errors...

We had decided to try and find this spot called the eclipse sky bar at the Phnom Penh Tower.

Noone we asked had ever heard of it, but it is a rooftop restaurant & lounge on the 22nd floor of the PP Tower.

A quick google search came up with the sales office at 455 Monivong Blvd.

Monivong Blvd is just a few blocks away, we're on 202 street.  So the long walk down to 450th street started.

We had seen a couple huge towers on our ride back into town,  so we were "assuming" it was one of them...

We walked for kilometers...it was 35 Celcius very humid.  No sign of of the tower, but we did see some interesting shops.

Check out the names on the signs.

Dining Room Panorama

Just ordered dinner at Villa Paradiso, last night in Cambodia. 

March8, Return to Kampot Photo Op

Vut arranged for us to meet up with Moll on the roadside after leaving Kep.  We had an ice cold orange pop and everybody took pictures.  A little girl walked by and said hello so Paul gave her one of the Canada pencils he has been carrying in his pack.

March8, Some Single Track on Way to Kep

Vut lead us down a patchwork of single track through an agricultural area next to a few small mountains on our way from Kampot to Kep.  This is fun riding, but I'm not able to do much sightseeing along the way as I concentrate on the next turn in front of me. :-)

Laundry Day at Last!

Depending on the limits of your imagination, the smell of riding clothes after nearly a week of tropical weather rates number 2 on our top 5 stankiest stinks of all time.

1. Burning Garbage
2. Steve's Riding Gear
3. Hot rotting garbage in the sun being urinated on by a bum
4. Open Sewer
5. Stray cat lit on fire

Please Keep Your Wheels Vertical!

Vut is an amazing guide who lead us through a variety of riding challenges.  I really loved this section because I felt like I was simultaneously at the beach and in the jungle at the same time.  As always, I found the intermittent and ill timed deep sand a challenge, but I loved every meter of it.  Halfway through I puckered up rather tighly as we pot committed to some very deep ruts that are deal breakers for motorcycles.  You spend every micro-second of off-road riding manipulating what you have control over to avoid a rut trapping your front wheel...in this video, in a split second we are all pot committed. The punishment for such an indiscretion is normally Tee-ing your bike and playing superman over your handlebars.  This time, I avoided the unscheduled dismount from my noble steed.  :-)

National Geographic Presents - Wild Cambodia

Motoring up the Kampot River (actually an estuary), our buddy Moll points out the cashew trees and explains how bitter they are.  "You can't eat them", he explains.  I channel my inner Attenborough, a little Dr. Suzuki, and maybe a couple pints of lager, and pontificate on the noble Cashew tree!