The stay in Siem Reap was really good but there was even a better thing to come. I visited the ruins of Angkor for 3 days and on the 4th day I decided it was time to continue my trip down the south. I took a boat to Battambang, the trip was meant to last 4 hours but in the end we got there 7 hours later, but it was memorable. Every single second was worth, it did feel like the National Geographic channel, we passed through a wide river first, then through a lake and then a really narrow river. Sometimes the scenery looked quite desolated, only a few trees, then suddently we passed through floating villages, the only economy of whom is fishing, all the kids in those villages, who lived in small huts, or in bigger huts on stilts or on little boats would yell "hellooooo"and waved their arms, it was moving.
Battambang is the second biggest city in Cambodia but you'd never guessed. It is kind of busy but not so much during the day and at 10pm there is nobody on the streets. The few foreigners around are all working in NGO's (there are hundreds of NGO's in Cambodia). The town has a decaying feeling, very old French colonial mansions crumbling apart, mostly by the river.
In Battamband I didn't do much except for walking around and visiting each afternoon a pagoda. The monks were very friendly and they seem like the only people in town who could speak good English and who knew about the country politics and were not afraid to express theirs opinions.
The last day I visited Sampeau killing cave, on top of Sampeau hill outside Battambang. I went there by motorbike and I am still surprised that all my bones are still together, that road was killing! The khmer rouge used to throw the people they killed inside the cave and there are a few remains, the others have been taken to Phnom Penh. It was chilling.
Battambang is the second biggest city in Cambodia but you'd never guessed. It is kind of busy but not so much during the day and at 10pm there is nobody on the streets. The few foreigners around are all working in NGO's (there are hundreds of NGO's in Cambodia). The town has a decaying feeling, very old French colonial mansions crumbling apart, mostly by the river.
In Battamband I didn't do much except for walking around and visiting each afternoon a pagoda. The monks were very friendly and they seem like the only people in town who could speak good English and who knew about the country politics and were not afraid to express theirs opinions.
The last day I visited Sampeau killing cave, on top of Sampeau hill outside Battambang. I went there by motorbike and I am still surprised that all my bones are still together, that road was killing! The khmer rouge used to throw the people they killed inside the cave and there are a few remains, the others have been taken to Phnom Penh. It was chilling.
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