From London to Bali Indonesia on a YAMAHA TDM900, 42,000km

Monday, March 19, 2007

Sihanoukville (pop 77,000), 110km South West from Kampot is Cambodia's main port (not that you feel it except for the few trucks parked at the harbour entrance) town that has sprung up in the last 50 years. The road to Sihanoukville provided us with the first site Cambodian hills as most of central Cambodia (which we have so far been) is flat which has come to exist in the last 500 years as a result of sediment deposit by the Mekong (all the way from the Himalayas).
This also the first time we see the ocean (South China Sea,) since leaving Antaliya, Turkey.

Sihanoukville (poblacion 77.000h) 110km al suroeste de Kampot, es el puerto mas importante de Cambodia (aunque nadie lo diria, ya que solo hay unos pocos camiones aparcados a la entrada de la bahia).
En la carretera a Sihanoukville hemos podido ver por primera vez algunas de las montanas de Cambodia - la mayor parte del centro de Cambodia es una gran planicie, un valle que se ha formado en los ultimos 500 anos como resultado de los depositos que el rio Mekong arrastra desde los Himalayas, donde nace, hasta su desembocadura. Esta es tambien la primera ocasion de ver el oceano (el Mar del Sur de China) desde que dejamos Turquia.

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