contrast

Back to Hong Kong... another world. Flashy shopping centers and Hong-Kongers wearing thick coats everywhere. Landed at 3:30 then 2 appointments and a dinner- a typical Hong Kong schedule. Tomorrow, last part(s) of the migration back home!
De retour à Hong Kong... un autre monde. Centres commerciaux ultra-modernes et un ballet de manteaux. Atterrie à 15:30 puis 2 RDV et un dîner - un emploi du temps à la Hongkongaise.

Demain derniers tronçons de la grande transhumance !

in PP airport

On the way to the airport: one of the (many) tuk-tuk advertising investing in UK... strange marketing campain: why would Cambodians invest in UK?

Siem Reap- Phnom Penh

Six and a half hours of bus... back to Phnom Penh. I am starting my slow return back to MN- Tomorrow, PP-HK, Tuesday: HK-Mnps via Tokyo and Seattle.

bus station in Siem Reap

Lake in Kampong Tong province

In Salabai

Back to Siem Reap in Salabai, the vocational hotel school/ de retour sur Siem Reap à Salabai, l'école hôtelière:

Sisophon

After observing the training at Soieries du Mekong and watching the interview of a silk weaver who attended a training in 2007, back to the road again- Banteay Chhmar - Siem Reap with a change of car in Sisophon. 5 people (excluding the driver) in the first, 3 in the second. A very quiet trip.

 waiting for the next Camry to find more passengers

 baguettes :)...

 a new phone line

in Banteay Chhmar

 Homestay with Hugo and Laurene, the two Soieries du Mekong French volunteers

 the beautiful house where I am staying

 Restaurant at the market

 shops

 money changer

 it is the end of rice harvesting season

Another change in BC...

 carrying rice bags

 



Siem Reap - Banteay Chhmar

I swapped the 5 star bus to the old Camry and headed on North West towards Sisophon then Banteay Chhmar.

 More road works...

 traffic

I switchec Camry again for the last stretch: Sisophon-Banteay Chhmar

On the N5 road - Phnom Penh

Eight hours on the bus... that gives plenty of time to look at the scenery ! Huit heures de bus, ça laisse amplement du temps pour regarder le paysage.

 Oudong's hill far away; très loin on aperçoit la colline d'Oudong

 

 

Muslim city on one side of the Mekong

 Buddhist on the other side

 no Khmer karaoke in the luxury bus... but Night at the Museum 2

 

 flooded areas

 Road works

 

 A child in the middle of the National Road...

 Market along the way

 Drying rice

 Petrol stations

 

 ubiquitous in Cambodia: banks have mushroomed everywhere over the last 5 years.

 And so have the mobile phone companies.

 

 Another bank... another phone company

 Another booming sector: international schools

and the wedding market