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Yesterday we were approach by a tuk tuk driver and we said it was okay! Strange, we know...
We just wanted to do some sightseeing aroung Battambang, the guy spoke rather good English, it was only 15$ for six hours and as we biked 100km/day the two previous days, we wanted to let our 'behinds' rest for a day :-) so we thought 'why not?'. We drove around town, we were told the story about Battambang and then went to the bambootrain.
You're not obliged to take the bambootrain, but they're very persuasive... In the beginning we didn't want to do this, because it would cost us another 5$/person. But then we thought again 'why not?'. So we took the little train and it was very fun indeed. Sometimes it felt like being on a small rollercoaster. The funny thing is there's only one track back and forth so when there's coming a bambootrain from the other direction, one of the two has to take his bambootrain of the track to let the other pass. There is a rule though... the one with the most passengers wins, accept when you have a motorbike on yours, then you win. I think we got a bambootraindriver that was higher in rank than the others, 'cause we always won, eventhough we were only with two on our bambootrain. Going back to the trainstation, we stopped at some fishers. They had a funny way of fishing: they drained one side of the pond and then just took the fish by hand. Ardan got to taste some homemade wisky and freshly catched fish: 'aaaah the real life' was written al over his face :-)
After the bambootrain the tuk tuk driver took us to some temples (they looked like they came from 'jungle book') for which we had to pay again (2$/person), some more driving through the countryside and then to some temples and the killing caves. Yeah well, on the bottom that is... we could take a moto for 3$/person to get up the mountain. No thank you... we just walked up there. Which was not so far as the tuk tuk driver tried to convince us from.
It was not so fun feeling like walking ATM's: the tuk tuk driver should have told us in advance that we still had to pay for the things we would visit. But after all it was a very nice ride (tuktuk and bambootrain) and a nice way to visit Battambang and around.
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Yesterday we were approach by a tuk tuk driver and we said it was okay! Strange, we know...
We just wanted to do some sightseeing aroung Battambang, the guy spoke rather good English, it was only 15$ for six hours and as we biked 100km/day the two previous days, we wanted to let our 'behinds' rest for a day :-) so we thought 'why not?'. We drove around town, we were told the story about Battambang and then went to the bambootrain.
You're not obliged to take the bambootrain, but they're very persuasive... In the beginning we didn't want to do this, because it would cost us another 5$/person. But then we thought again 'why not?'. So we took the little train and it was very fun indeed. Sometimes it felt like being on a small rollercoaster. The funny thing is there's only one track back and forth so when there's coming a bambootrain from the other direction, one of the two has to take his bambootrain of the track to let the other pass. There is a rule though... the one with the most passengers wins, accept when you have a motorbike on yours, then you win. I think we got a bambootraindriver that was higher in rank than the others, 'cause we always won, eventhough we were only with two on our bambootrain. Going back to the trainstation, we stopped at some fishers. They had a funny way of fishing: they drained one side of the pond and then just took the fish by hand. Ardan got to taste some homemade wisky and freshly catched fish: 'aaaah the real life' was written al over his face :-)
After the bambootrain the tuk tuk driver took us to some temples (they looked like they came from 'jungle book') for which we had to pay again (2$/person), some more driving through the countryside and then to some temples and the killing caves. Yeah well, on the bottom that is... we could take a moto for 3$/person to get up the mountain. No thank you... we just walked up there. Which was not so far as the tuk tuk driver tried to convince us from.
It was not so fun feeling like walking ATM's: the tuk tuk driver should have told us in advance that we still had to pay for the things we would visit. But after all it was a very nice ride (tuktuk and bambootrain) and a nice way to visit Battambang and around.
mm, I like these pictures of Cambodja. De ingang van de tempel lijkt wel de Midas tempel in Griekenland. EN JULLIE STRALEN ALLEBEI. Maakt mij heel gelukkig. kussen, mama Chantal
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