A Trip to Battambang, Cambodia. The Reals!

Thu, Jun 18, 2009

If you’ve been peepin’ my page in the last week or two, you know that I was in Cambodia the other week. Well, I didn’t just do the normal “tourist stuff” while I was there. I hopped on many a bus & headed into deep down Cambodia. Luckily, I met a local girl named Sothea & she showed me around a bit of her country. Well one day we took a bus for 6hrs to the village of Battambang. The drive there was SO cool ’cause we were on a double decker bus & we had the front row seat. So it was like a wide screen real life Cambodian adventure movie. Oh, and don’t think that we were on the highways. I don’t think highwways exist there. We were on these cool little (BUMPY!) roads all through the villages & stuff. Was so cool. Her parents live way out in the sticks in Battambang. We were on a dirt road for miles to get there. And as you will see from the pics below, we went to her parent’s house for lunch. Was such a COOL experience! They had no running water. I don’t think they had electicity. But they DID have happiness! Peep:

This was the view from the front row of the double decker bus to Battambang. Was SO cool!

Another view from the front seat. This time driving through a little village. Like I said, freeways do not exist in Cambodia. Shoot, I think paved roads are still kind of new!

Sothea & I stopped to get some farm fresh goodies to bring to her parents’. I’ve never seen so many fruits & vegetables that I’ve never seen before. Ha ha…

Now we are on a motorcycle taxi. This is one of the many dirt roads that we had to take to get to Sothea’s parent’s house. And yes, we are 3 deep on the motorcycle.

When we rolled up, I was kind of surprised that her family lived in a glorified shed. But they were as happy as can be!

Here’s part of Sothea’s family. Aunt, niece, dad, & sister. Like I said, super happy & super nice people. Just goes to show, money can’t buy love & happiness.

Sothea asked me “Do you want coconut?” I was like “Sure.” (I love drinking coconuts!) -And before I knew it, her dad scaled up the tree & cut down some coconuts! Was soo cool. So “real.” Look closely & you will see him up in the tree.