Day 10: After the usual early start we wound our way through the dusty streets of Sisophon towards the main highway (I guess you can call it that). The road was much as it was the day before...ranging from smooth packed dirt to hellish craters. Another day of dust clouds, mud pits, cows, etc. Stopped for a quick lunch at around 40 miles (a bowl of ramen noodles for me and a very small catfish for Josh). Continuing on... collapsed onto the road at around 55 miles (se photos) when a bunch of clouds passed over and gave us some welcome shade. Finally, at 65 miles we reached Siem Reap. We quickly found a bar, sat for a couple hours nursing beer and water...got a room right above the bar...and washed the multiple coats of sweat, sunblock and dirt off.

Siem Reap is essentially a larger version Khao San road...restaurants, bars, pizza places, internet and tour shops. It was a welcome change for a day or two.

We spent the next day touring Angkor Wat...a huge and quite famous complex of temples near the town.

We decided to take a bus from Siem Reap to Phnom Penh...saved us a few days and let us actually check out Phnom Penh instead of just passing through. Here we spent a day touring S21 (a rather brutal prison under the Khmer Rouge) and the Killing Fields. Rather disturbing to see all of the mass graves still with bits of bone and clothing sticking out of the dirt.

We left Phnom Penh by boat down the Mekon River to Chao Doc in Vietnam. Tomorrow...after too many days off...we get back on the bikes and ride towards Ho Chi Minh City.

So far...
Days: 10
Miles: 586
Broken Chains: 1
Flat tires: 1
Number of times someone has tried to get Josh to marry a daughter/friend: 3.