Sua S'dei everyone,
I'm on the worlds slowest internet connection this will have
to be brief.
As you may or may not know, I'm cycling across Vietnam and
Cambodia to raise money for the charity 'OXFAM'
(oxfam.org.nzoxfam.org.nzOpen ↗) . There's a group of about 36
bicyclists and yep, one guy on a unicycle.
We set off from Saigon last week and have so far ridden
about 400km. (Saigon-Tay Ninh-Cambodia/Vietnam border- Svey
Rieng-Prey Veng- Kampong Cham- Phnom Penh).
It is $%#^! Hot! Every day it's been somewhere between 36-
40 degrees. Our first day was the worst- 44 degrees
(that's celcius). ARGH!!!! We've been averaging about 66-
96km/day, and setting a good 20-24km/hr average speed on
my Coker (125mm cranks). Luckily we have two days off our
before we ride to Siem Reap and Angkor. My bottom is
getting really sore.
Yesterday was the most awesome ride- we went along this
dirt road past all these villages alongside the Mekong
River. It was like a mini Tour De France- all these kids
would run out and line the side of the road waving and
cheering as this big group of cyclists go past- and then
when the unicyclist (ahem...) goes past....there were
giggles and laughter all the way to Phnom Penh. We were
mobbed by a kids and villages everywhere we stopped.
Absolutely amazing- you'd think they'd never seen a
unicyclist ride past their village before.
We visited the OXFAM project yesterday- it's a joint
OXFAM/UNICEF school project where they are offering
scholarships to help village/poorer families to attain an
education.
We're about to head off to Choeung ek- the killing fields-
one of many extermination camps where 17,000 men, women and
children were tortured and bludgeoned to death during the
Pol Pot regime. Will be a sobering experience.
Anyway, I'll post a report when I get back to New
Zealand. This is actually the second time I've typed out
this message- the computer crashed- so I'll send this
before anything happens.
Ciao for now,
Ken
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