{"id":3389,"date":"2012-03-12T05:59:27","date_gmt":"2012-03-12T09:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.worldbiking.info\/wordpress\/?p=3389"},"modified":"2019-12-29T02:43:17","modified_gmt":"2019-12-29T07:43:17","slug":"cambodia-bicycle-touring-having-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.worldbiking.info\/wordpress\/2012\/03\/cambodia-bicycle-touring-having-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"Are you still having Fun?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Southeast Asia is a mecca for cycle tourists. That means we cross paths with bicycle travelers almost every day.<\/p>\n

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This German couple from Cologne has been on the road for 18 months.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

You may just be wondering the same thing<\/h4>\n

When our new cycling friends find out how long we\u2019ve been on the road ( 5 years, 9 months and 6 days– not that we\u2019re counting), they invariably ask the same exact question:<\/p>\n

\u201cAre you still having fun?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It\u2019s a hard one to answer.<\/p>\n

If we meet early in the day, when I\u2019m fresh and enthusiastic and the road ahead seems full of possibilities and adventure, the answer is probably \u201cyes.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Fresh and full of enthusiasm!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Catch us at 2PM after we\u2019ve been spinning our wheels under an unforgiving Cambodian sun for the past six hours, you can bet the answer will be an emphatic, \u201cNo!\u201d<\/p>\n

Being constantly on the move takes a toll.\u00a0 A continuous onslaught of new languages and customs, strange foods and different cultures is taxing in so many ways.<\/p>\n

We need time to take it all in, adapt and adjust.<\/p>\n

\"Eric
One hard thing to adjust to is the traffic. Streets are crowded even at sunrise.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Simple happiness!<\/h4>\n

But there\u2019s one thing about bicycle touring that never ceases to delight me:\u00a0 random connections!<\/p>\n

We\u2019re in Cambodia at the moment, and I\u2019ll have to admit to something rather shameful:\u00a0 I got tired of visiting temples.<\/p>\n

Angkot Wat at sunrise on Day 1 was spectacular; I didn\u2019t even mind sharing the view with the 5,000 other tourists who\u2019d rolled out of bed at 5AM to take in the view.<\/p>\n

\"Angkor<\/p>\n

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But by Day 3, I was weary of the Wats<\/em>.\u00a0 And the Japanese tourists with humungous cameras slung around their necks who got in the way of MY photo taking.\u00a0 And the locals hassling me to \u201cbuy water, cheap price, madam, I give you $1.\u201d\u00a0 And the fact that there were actual TRAFFIC JAMS at Angkor Wat owing to the fleets of tourist buses.<\/p>\n

On Day 3, I\u2019d reached my jam-packed tourist attraction breaking point and convinced Eric to leave early and pedal back to the guesthouse on some side roads.<\/p>\n

And there, biking through some tiny villages not mentioned in any of the guidebooks, we found our magic!<\/p>\n

Just regular ole’ life!<\/h4>\n

Sure, there was nothing special to see, just people going about their daily lives.\u00a0 Women buying and selling things at the market, itinerant salesman hawking their wares, kids heading home from school, a lost toddler wailing on the side of the road, a man hitching up his team of water buffalo, boys working in the fields, old men drinking beer far too early in the day.<\/p>\n

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But, for just a moment, we were a part of it all.\u00a0 We weren\u2019t treated as tourists, but visitors passing through.<\/p>\n

After haggling over some fly-infested pineapple in a dusty market, we were brought chairs and made to feel welcome.<\/p>\n

Mothers brought by their babies to check out the strange foreigners with the badly burned skin and I cooed and said \u201cHello Baby!\u201d which brought peals of laughter.<\/p>\n

We stayed but a few minutes, but those moments were magical.\u00a0 And that magic is what keeps me turning the pedals when it\u2019s 2 PM and I\u2019ve been spinning my wheels under an unforgiving Cambodian sun for the past six hours.<\/p>\n

Leave us a comment or email us at worldbiking@gmail.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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