Battambang and Bats

I will now give out some numbers.
4, 2, 4, 12, 2, 3, 4, 100.

At 4pm I got picked up from Koh Rong Sanloem. 2h I had to wait in Sihanoukville to board the sleeper bus. 4 loud man were talking during the 12h ride. 2h I had to wait earl morning in Siem Reap to be picked up by a Van to go to Battambang and 3 hours the journey should have been, 4h it was instead.
And when arriving, I was 100% done.
My supposedly 13h journey turned out to be 21h.

Anyway. I arrived.

The hostel was nice enough to provide me with free pick up from the bus station. Chai, the tuktuk driver picked me up and after check in and taking a nap, I walked around Battambang a bit. I even found a cafe with matcha. Day saved.

The next day, I went on a tour with other people from the hostel, where Chai again was our driver and guide.
We went to the Bamboo train. The bamboo train was used as transport for wares back in the day, where they pushed the platforms of bamboo with sticks (like with boats). Now they only use them for tourists. But nice history lesson.

Next stop was a killing field. Like in Phnom Phen. Yes, there are lots of killing fields scattered across Cambodia, so here we had another history lesson in how even a temple has been used as a prison.

Then we went to a rice paper farm, where the people immediately made us work for them, spreading the rice paper onto the bamboo mats to leave them to dry.

After lunch, we were brought to Phnom Sampov, a hill were we could hike up and visit a killing cave. More up, we went to the viewpoint while being vary of the monkeys. There were lots around, but we made it out without being bitten.

We walked down and then waited for the bats to leave the cave. The highlight of the day!
There are appr. 3 mio. bats in this cave, and at dawn, they fly out of their home to look for food. It takes about 30min for all of them to leave. Wow!

Back in the hostel we had dinner and then I taught everybody to play "mean uno", how I call it.
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