Pork anyone?

Today started at midnight! By the time dawn rose I had already been awake 6 hours :-( cockerels start much earlier than dawn and tend to crow more than once. The nice thing about jungle villages is they have dogs. Dogs seem to bark when disturbed at night and village dogs get disturbed a lot.

Today's blip was taken during a pre breakfast stroll through the local market. For somewhere do isolated it has remarkable diversity.

Breakfast was at 7:00 and green tea rice wrapped in an banana leaf, chips, jam sandwiches fried bread fried potatoes certainly filled me up!

Today is the first day I've ever crouched to go to the loo, interesting experience!

Today wasn't all bad of course! We started off late at 8:00 and the temperature was already close to that of the sun and due to another late bathroom visit I didn't have my normal head covering with me or packed lunch of rice, due to my hurried departure.

Our route today took us through the Cambodian jungle along sandy, washed away, blocked by fallen trees and generally bloody difficult paths for three hours. But the prize was a rich one as we came upon the waterfall that was our days destination.

We spent a very pleasant hour in the pool under the waterfall and having lunch ( those that had one) before we headed back to the village. As luck would have it the heat was broken shortly after we set off with a torrential storm! Luckily only lasting an hour or so.

Clive (one of our group) provided a slight diversion in our journey by falling off a makeshift bridge of bits of wood, twigs and thin air falling about 10 feet onto his back. Luckily the bike was fine and was spared any damage a Clive cushioned its fall.

Now all that is in the past. I've already showered ( well I've stood in a tiny room and pored water over my head with a saucepan) and now I've had a beer.

All is right with the world.

Tomorrow we leave our jungle village and head off on our last bike trip of this holiday. More of this on my next blip.


Ps did i mention the leeches?