{"id":12329,"date":"2014-02-23T15:51:37","date_gmt":"2014-02-23T15:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geoffjones.com\/?p=12329"},"modified":"2014-02-23T15:51:37","modified_gmt":"2014-02-23T15:51:37","slug":"biking-se-asia-borkeo-to-stung-treng","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/?p=12329","title":{"rendered":"Biking SE Asia – Borkeo to Stung Treng"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"1-IMG_0267\"<\/a>I managed an early start leaving the hotel at 6.38 taking the bike next door to get the kickstand fixed as a bolt had come out. Imagine getting your bike fixed on a Sunday at that hour in the UK \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

After last nights culinary experience I had a few bananas and rode on. After 20 miles I hit Banlung which is a large town with banks, lots of hotels & restaurants! So I had breakfast and ploughed on.<\/p>\n

\"1-IMG_0281\"<\/a>The destruction of the forest is almost complete to be replaced by huge tracts of rubber trees etc Truly amazing all that diversity being replaced by monoculture. after crossing a river there was then a grueling straight stretch of 25 miles or so with no signs of habitation & even worse no coconut sellers, plus the back tyre has a puncture again, so I had to keep stopping to put some wind into it. \u00a0\ud83d\ude41 \u00a0On the outskirts of \u00a0Sangkom Andet\u00a0a shack loomed into view that sold drinks I downed over \u00a0a litre of juice drinks immediately plus another half litre at the garage. It is just so hot in the afternoon!<\/p>\n

The village had no hotel and with over 80 miles on the clock I couldn’t face another 25 miles to civilisation in Stung Treng. Pondering what to do my eyes alighted on a modern pickup truck with two official guys nearby, the rear was mainly empty, so I began a very animated conversation with them (No English of course) eventually I struck gold as they lowered the tailgate and let me sit in the back holding the bike as we roared down to Stung Trenk, after first saving the biking data!<\/p>\n

They dropped me of at the bridge so I could bike into town. First place was Gold River Hotel where for $20 they gave me a lovely river view room. In town I found The Riverside Cafe that served excellent food!<\/p>\n

Interestingly I met Colin who is working to save Cambodian \u00a0vulture,s \u00a0apparently vultures have just about been wiped out in India in a few years due to cows been given\u00a0Diclofenac\u00a0\u00a0(active ingredient of\u00a0Voltaro). Thus leading to a huge increase in rabies due to wild dogs taking over eating the dead cows. All amazing and there is an article here.<\/a>\u00a0If like me you are curious to know more. Plus he told me of the new road to Angor Wat \ud83d\ude42
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The Strava for the cycling bit of the day is here:<\/p>\n

\"Borkeo_to_Sangkom_Andet___Strava_Ride\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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and the pictures here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I managed an early start leaving the hotel at 6.38 taking the bike next door to get the kickstand fixed as a bolt had come out. Imagine getting your bike fixed on a Sunday at that hour in the UK \ud83d\ude42 After last nights culinary experience I had a few bananas and rode on. After […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking","category-south-east-asia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}