We just had the one night in Battambang, partly because there wasn't loads to do, partly because we wanted to get back to the beaches. We met our friend Benson and his friend Henry who he had been travelling with in India before meeting up with us. After some lunch we headed out to see the bamboo train. This is basically a little bamboo platform on some train tracks, very sketchy. Riding it felt like something at Alton towers, the track was terrible and a little uncomfortable at times. There is just a single track as well so if a train is coming the other way, one of them has to take the train apart and take it off the tracks while the other goes by. It's all pretty quirky, and sadly won't be around for much longer. Good fun!
Because of rain we got stuck at the other end of the bamboo train journey for a little longer than we would have liked. We also wanted to go and see the killing caves in Battambang. They're certainly on a less fun note - as the name suggests, Cambodians were killed there during the genocide. We got to the caves a bit late for that but we were at the right time to see all of the bats coming out of a different cave. Someone told us that there are a billion bats in this one cave that all come out at sunset - it takes an hour and a half for them all to come out and they come out fast. So there must be lots in there. It was quite surreal, as we got our tuk-tuk back home you could see all the bats moving around in the distance - they looked like the black smoke out of lost.
After that we just went out for a few beers - we had to be up before 7am again the next morning for our bus to Sihanoukville which was supposed to take 9 hours (but actually took about 12).
Love this tune by Croms called Invisible Cities. It's on a compilation called Mosaic by Exit Records, which is a pretty good showcase for some of the newer more progressive 'dnb' type music around. Well worth a listen
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