{"id":12380,"date":"2014-03-02T13:56:02","date_gmt":"2014-03-02T13:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geoffjones.com\/?p=12380"},"modified":"2014-03-02T13:56:02","modified_gmt":"2014-03-02T13:56:02","slug":"siem-reap-to-sisophon-on-geoffs-se-asia-biking-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/?p=12380","title":{"rendered":"Siem Reap to Sisophon on Geoff’s SE Asia biking tour"},"content":{"rendered":"

I left the comfort & splendour of the\u00a0Angkor Era<\/a>\u00a0 a bit later than I would have liked at just after 7. The lateness was, at breakfast, \u00a0I received an email alert from Wordfence <\/a>saying some files in a blog I run had suspect files \ud83d\ude41 \u00a0so I just deleted all 8 of them \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

\"1-IMG_0700\"<\/a>Outside it was a gorgeous morning about as hot as an English summer’s day \ud83d\ude42 \u00a0Traffic was heavy initially but manageable especially with the good road service. I hit upon the start of a cycling race \ud83d\ude42 I tried keeping up but these kids were fast! at 21mph I gave up and conserved my energy for later.<\/p>\n

\"Spot<\/a>I love the amount of stuff that these guys tow around on their mopeds from around 12 adults to amazing stacks of mattresses etc. A couple of young girls came up and chatted to me in good English as we cruised along at 10mph. However, the road suddenly became very bad so they shot off.<\/p>\n

I found a dealer for all the two wheel tractor things that are ubiquitous around Cambodia & Vietnam. Apparently they cost about $3,000 and made by Tra Chang a subsidiary of Kubata in Japan and imported via Thailand. Engines are up to 140HP so considerably more powerful than an Ox! The farmers with less than 5 hectares all use them as real tractors are at least 5 times more expensive. Apparently they (maybe) are called Power Teller’s<\/p>\n

\"1-IMG_8251\"<\/a>As the morning drew on it got hotter & hotter and soon coconut\/Sprite stops became more frequent \ud83d\ude42 Culminating in a garage just before Sisophon which had electric & real fridges where I consumed 3 cans of Sprite leaving a puddle on the table from the sweat pouring down my arms. I reckon it was upwards of 35degrees ;-(<\/p>\n

So after 68 miles I collapsed on the bed in my $15 room at Nasa Hotel in Sisophon, leaving 25 miles or so to the Thai border at Paoy Paet (Poipet)<\/p>\n

Here is the Strava, nic & flat apart from one pimple.<\/p>\n

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

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

I left the comfort & splendour of the\u00a0Angkor Era\u00a0 a bit later than I would have liked at just after 7. The lateness was, at breakfast, \u00a0I received an email alert from Wordfence saying some files in a blog I run had suspect files \ud83d\ude41 \u00a0so I just deleted all 8 of them \ud83d\ude42 Outside […]<\/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-12380","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\/12380","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=12380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}