Battambang!

An anti alcoholism ad on a tree next to a gathering place by the river...

... sponsored by IOGT-NTO.  The chaps we saw sitting next to the three later that night didn't seem to be very interested in the message.

Bun, our guide and tuk tuk driver, stopped by a restaurant with a turquoise sign outside of it. Apparently this sign meant that the restaurant serves "special foods". In this particular case; dog meat.

Bamboo train! Check out http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/5110236.stm to learn more.

Sitting on a flat platform made of bamboo, sizzling through green jungle and greener rice fields, with the constant sound of the engine and the clipperty-clop of the crooked railway ringing in your ears, this was an amazing ride.

Since there is only one railway but traffic that goes in both directions, whenever you get an encounter one of the bamboo rides has to get disaggregated and lifted aside.

Yes, the whole thing would have felt very touristy, if it wasnt for the fact that every now and then the train stopped to pick up a local, or be handed a package to give to someone further up or down the railway.

The Golden Gate of Battambang. Or sumfin.

At first I thought they were big lime fruits, but Bun showed us that they are really oranges! Delicious ones too!

A tree full of big bats. Ehm, unfortunately not very photogenic bats.

More stairs! 358 to be exact, to get to  Prasat Banan, the wat said to be the inspiration for Angkor Wat.

Almost there Em!

View from the top. Preeeetty OK.

Prasat Banan means "Temple of Prayer". 400 meters up in the air surrounded by jungle it was very peaceful and calm.

Children trying to make us wave back at them.

An artist redecorating a temple that the Khmer Rouge painted white during their occupation.

An explicit picture outside the killing caves, where approximately 10,000 people were killed.

People were either killed and thrown into the caves, or thrown alive and smashed against the rocks.

View from the top of the mountain of the killing caves and the temple. To the left is the Thai border.

Bun explained that in Cambodia, a man has to give 5,000 USD to the family of the girl he wants to marry. Whether there is s a girl waiting for him to come up with the money or not we never found out, but his tuk tuk said "NO MONEY NO HONEY". He also said he thought about getting another sign saying "NO HONEY SAVE MONEY"...

In case you've got you ways around Battambang.

Restaurant Smokin Pot. No strange things.

Look Rhys, Vegemite!

Happiest girl we met, most delicious food stall soup I ever had!