Our Cambodia adventure ends tomorrow when we fly from Phnom Penh International airport. So today we travelled by car from Siem Reap to Phnom Penh. A five hour drive through the centre of Cambodia. Our driver picked us up at 8am, so he initially battled through the morning traffic, where he demonstrated some interesting overtaking manoeuvres, but gradually the traffic reduced and the journey became relatively uneventful. Our driver was keen to tell us about his country, so he briefly stopped in one village, which is built along the main road we were taking. In this village they predominately make flat rice. Home made automated hammers pound pan heated rice until flat, which is bagged and sold around the country. There were no health and safety manuals consulted when these machines were built.
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| Flat Rice Making |
After a break we arrived safely in Phnom Penh around 13:30, so time for late lunch and one last explore of the city. There is a combination of new and old buildings in the city, with roads lined with overhead power and telephone cables. I couldn’t resist taking the photo below, which shows that the engineers who installed the cables clearly focused on quantity and not quality.
Cambodia has been fun, tomorrow we head to Singapore.
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