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Today we really began biking cambodia. We joined Nina (where we slept yesterday) to the orphanage she volunteers at. Very nice place, very nice kids! Played a couple of games with them & practiced their english. Very good job they are doing there. Afterwards we set off to ride through the country side towards Kampong Chnang, eliminating riding Hw5 for the entire stretch...but would we find our way?? ...Well, yes we found our way, but luckily we have a gps/compasse/map & Khmer phrasebook. We used all of them :-)
Passing on red dust roads through dry rice fields & palm leaf shack farm villages that don't seem to see a lot of foreigners. Stopping for a drink somewhere took just 5min, but we found ourselves surrounded by peoples, seamingly coming out of hiding from everywhere to stare & touch us :-) Tried to ask them the way, but that seemed to be just too confusing...
At a certain point an old man on an ox cart passed us yelling french phrases out with a big, no teeth, smile. "Eh, Tous vas bien? Comme se promaner dans la campagne!" Haha, memories from the past i guess.
For the rest we get stared at a lot, seriously a lot! Strange, because most cambodian have seen foreigners before, but it seems to still be special...
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Today we really began biking cambodia. We joined Nina (where we slept yesterday) to the orphanage she volunteers at. Very nice place, very nice kids! Played a couple of games with them & practiced their english. Very good job they are doing there. Afterwards we set off to ride through the country side towards Kampong Chnang, eliminating riding Hw5 for the entire stretch...but would we find our way?? ...Well, yes we found our way, but luckily we have a gps/compasse/map & Khmer phrasebook. We used all of them :-) Passing on red dust roads through dry rice fields & palm leaf shack farm villages that don't seem to see a lot of foreigners. Stopping for a drink somewhere took just 5min, but we found ourselves surrounded by peoples, seamingly coming out of hiding from everywhere to stare & touch us :-) Tried to ask them the way, but that seemed to be just too confusing...
At a certain point an old man on an ox cart passed us yelling french phrases out with a big, no teeth, smile. "Eh, Tous vas bien? Comme se promaner dans la campagne!" Haha, memories from the past i guess.For the rest we get stared at a lot, seriously a lot! Strange, because most cambodian have seen foreigners before, but it seems to still be special...
awel ardan, zo te zien aan die foto's met de kinderen, zou ge da ni slecht doen als papa :) !
BeantwoordenVerwijderenen, beginnen jullie belgie nog niet te missen? het werk, de regen? :)
tot binnenkort, we bellen nog wel een keer !
Indrukwekkend deze foto's van de kinderen, het weeshuis, het echte Cambodja. Het raakt.
BeantwoordenVerwijderenKus, Chantal