Motorcycle day

We had breakfast at Olly's (tomato and onion omlette with baguette and muesli with fruit and yogurt) and left on our motorbikes around 9:30 - Brenda and Fiona on one, Andy and I on the other.  We planned to drive to Kep but stop along the way at Phnom Chhnork, a cave with a temple.  The cave was down a long dirt road which was more like mud because of the rain.  Some kids on bikes tried to get us to stop at a cave but it was not what we were looking for.  Right before we arrived at Phnom Chhnork Andy and I ended up slipping on a big patch of mud and the bike slid out from under us.  I scraped my knee and foot, Andy scraped his hand and both of us were covered in mud.  Luckily we crashed right in front of someone's home and they helped us clean up with some water and balm to keep infection out.

We ended up walking across some rice fields to the caves with four kids who wanted to be our guides.  There were 203 steps to walk up to the cave.  At the top of the stairs was Phnom Chnnork cave with a stalactite "elephant" at the entrance.  In the cave was an old wat from the 7th century with a giant stalactite growing through the roof.  Andy and Fiona went to the rice fields through the cave (spelunking!) while Brenda and I went back the way of the stairs.

Andy and I went back to the hostel to clean and bandage our wounds while Brenda and Fiona went on to Kep.  Lunch at Olly's; banana chocolate pancake for Katie (comfort food), fried khmer noodles with vegetables for Andy.  Andy went back out to meet them.

Andy: Passed Fiona and Brenda on the road to Kep about halfway there, stopped and chatted and turned around and came back to Kampot (I was really more interested in cruising around on the motorbike than seeing Kep). Brenda and Fiona said Kep was pretty but small - they had crab at a seafood restaurant by the sea. On the way back to Kampot the three of us stopped at the market and I picked up a gift for some family members (but don't tell them!). We headed back to Olly's and just lazied around the rest of the afternoon (Brenda and Fiona napped).

For dinner we all took the scooters out into town but didn't know how to work the headlights so we wore headlamps on the way there. We ate at Little Garden Restaurant and a guy that worked there showed us the switch underneath the handlebars that turned the lights on. I had a toasted tomato and cheese (they had one curry dish and Brenda ordered it), Andy had a chicken burger with potato salad. Contemplated dessert but ended up going back to Olly's for the night.