{"id":12355,"date":"2014-02-27T15:13:38","date_gmt":"2014-02-27T15:13:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geoffjones.com\/?p=12355"},"modified":"2014-02-27T15:13:38","modified_gmt":"2014-02-27T15:13:38","slug":"koh-ker-to-siem-reap-on-geoffs-bike-tour-of-se-asia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/?p=12355","title":{"rendered":"Koh Ker to Siem Reap on Geoff’s bike tour of SE Asia"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"1-IMG_0427\"<\/a>Once again it was going to be an early start & once again thwarted by the guest house owner! I ended up leaving at 6.19 sans breakfast except for two black bananas & water. It’s a real pleasure out at that time the air temperature is in the 20’s with a steady drum beat from some distant tannoy. All the kit was fully charged as the genny stayed on all night.<\/p>\n

I eventually found some breakfast, although it entailed me going to the kitchen area & going through the motion with his wife, it turned out OK coupled with a few drink stops made it a good morning (although the Strava \u00a0reveals it was mainly downhill). There were more plantations today and lots of people on their little pull along tractors, which look excruciatingly uncomfortable.<\/p>\n

I took the back road shortcut to miss a chunk of Higway 6 and was rewarded with delightful villages surrounded by coconut trees. I stumbled upon a local Buddhist party whilst taking my pics a young girl came out and insisted I sat down then proceeded to bring enough food over to feed an army \ud83d\ude41 \u00a0 I didn’t stay long as it was very hot & noisy in the marquee affair .<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>After a few more stops and drinks, I love rummaging around in their orange cold boxes, no electric around so they buy ice from a guy on his truck who cuts lumps of with a circular saw run from the vehicle genny.<\/p>\n

I arrived in Siem Reap determined to find a good place to stay. \u00a0I found the really grand Angkor Era<\/a> five star hotel & went in to see what sort of deal I could wrangle \ud83d\ude42 \u00a0The girlies & their line manager couldn’t help with a deal so I went back outside & looked it up on booking.com who came back with a price that equalled 3 nights for the price of two \ud83d\ude42 much to the previously mentioned folks surprise! So for less than most of the b&b’s on the SW Coast Path I’m in the lap of luxury for 3 nights. Plus internet \u00a0up & down speed of greater than 10Mbps.<\/p>\n

Tomorrow I splurged on a car\/driver & English guide to show me around Angkor Wat etcc so the bike & its rider are \u00a0having a 2 day rest before moving on to Thailand.<\/p>\n

The Strava for todays \u00a0is here:<\/p>\n

\"Kok_Ker_to_Sien_Reao___Strava_Ride\"<\/a>and pics here<\/a><\/p>\n

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Once again it was going to be an early start & once again thwarted by the guest house owner! I ended up leaving at 6.19 sans breakfast except for two black bananas & water. It’s a real pleasure out at that time the air temperature is in the 20’s with a steady drum beat from […]<\/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-12355","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\/12355","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=12355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}