Cycling Holiday Through Cambodia

We take our bike ride through the city of Kampong Chhnang and visit some French colonial architecture buildings including one of the French colonial houses, Felix Louis Bardez. He was beaten to death by the villagers of Kraing Laev on 18th April 1925, where he had been attempting to collect delinquent taxes. Bardez was an experienced administrator, with over ten years of service in the Protectorate. He was forty-two years old. Two Cambodians who had accompanied him to the village, a militiaman and an interpreter, were killed at the same time.

Continuously, we cycled to the Khmer ceramic pottery villages where they made a lot of products for household use like pots, stove, Earthenware​ etc from the clay. Interestingly, we try that handmade of ceramic pottery products, explore that peaceful village which is covered by paddy rice fields, pamp trees with a mountain view of Neang Kang Rei mount that most of people in Kampong Chhnang known that legend and recognized her body turned into the mountain which lies across the river in Kampong Chhnang and still resembles the body of a prone woman. Then we cycle through the local village and have a short transfer to the hidden waterfall which is located on the foothill on cardamom mountain range.

After relaxing and enjoying Khmer food there, we have a few hours to transfer to Battambang which is a classically quaint provincial capital – old-world architecture.

• Cycling Distance: 35 km (22 miles)
• Accommodation: Classy Hotel & Spa, Battambang
• Meals: BLD

After breakfast, we get a sightseeing tour through the Battambang town which is a classically quaint provincial capital – old-world architecture and even older pagodas set picturesquely along a river, and even though the city is one of the country’s largest, it is still lightly touristic. In town, charming colonial-era buildings line narrow lanes, including the ‘walking district’ near the market where contemporary art galleries, local and foreign cafes, shops and bars inhabit the old shop houses. Then we continued to visit the oldest Khmer traditional house, Ek Phnom Temple and its countryside through the Sangke river.

We went back for lunch in the town and rested at the hotel for a few hours before we continued to get a bamboo train, visit Phnom Banan temple and sunset at Sampov mountain where the bat will fly out from the cave. Phnom Banan is a mountaintop, mid-11th century Angkorian-era ruin consisting of five prasats (towers) arranged in the quincunx (five-pointed) form reminiscent of Angkor Wat.

• Cycling Distance: 40 km (25 miles)
• Accommodation: Classy Hotel & Spa, Battambang
• Meals: BLD

There is no biking today, perhaps we have another interesting thing to do is go by boat from Battambang to Siem Reap through the Tonle Sap River where it is the richest setting of beautiful floating villages, farmlands and chance to see any species of wetland birds.

On the arrival of Siem Reap town, we checked in the hotel and relaxed before enjoying an Apsara Dance Dinner at this beautiful city of the world religious monument and sign off our unforgettable cycling experience through the heart of Cambodia countryside.

• Boat trip from Battambang to Siem Reap
• Accommodation: to be confirm by guest
• Meals: BLD