- Good morning world, 15th of November, 2019.
We're doing a bicycle tour here in Siem Reap, Cambodia.
Hello!
- Hello!
- How are you?
Hello, how are you?
Have a nice day!
("Mountain Spring High")
It's about eight o'clock in the morning.
I'm on a bicycle, right here.
And Robyn Whale is in front of me, we're in a group of four.
Total of four, we're gonna be riding around Siem Reap
for a bit of a tour with Grasshopper Adventures,
I'll link 'em up.
Yeah, we'll give you a little bit of a highlight reel
of this adventure, which is about a four hour adventure,
and I think it's gonna be a pretty awesome day,
because I'm trying to ride a bicycle
and make a video at the same time.
- World, hello!
Here we are, Brad and I.
We are going a little cycling tour as you can see.
There's Brad behind me.
There's our tour in front of us.
And we're just about to cross a little river here.
Okay, see, there.
I'm trying to manoeuvre, I'm trying to hold back,
kind of like horse riding, galloping on a horse,
took took there, there's traffic,
there are hills, very strategic.
But we make it happen, look.
And also the opposite side of the road for me.
So today instead of doing temples,
you can also opt to do these cycling tours,
you see them all around the place.
But we decided to do a countryside tour,
because it's a little bit more remote and,
I guess we're hoping for a little less tourism.
And so there's not a better way to do it, guys,
than to get on a bicycle and go to the rice paddies
and the local markets and villages.
And do a bit of exercise.
("Branch Line")
- Just had a whole lot of dirt for breakfast, guys.
So right now we're cycling through these rice paddies,
really nice-looking fields, look how green that is.
Everyone's really friendly and polite,
and you just smile and wave, they smile and wave,
and there's nothing to feel threatened by,
if you ever decide to come to Cambodia.
Know that the people here are super friendly,
and you'll feel really safe,
and it's a really beautiful country, so,
glad I'm here.
- The item, to take it out they put on a top, see.
Put on a top like this, inside.
And they close with the paper again.
- We're at a mushroom farm right now.
- Guys, we've just been to the mushroom farm.
And it was fascinating, I'm sure Brad's gonna show you,
in the footage that he's taken of it,
and how it all works, it's really interesting.
Now, we've just left, and we're about to go
to the markets where they actually sell the mushrooms,
and all their produce.
And so we're on this path, cycling here,
Brad's behind me.
Off we go.
- So now we're at the local market.
Right now.
Oh, hello!
I don't see many tourists here, Robs.
Wanna buy some eggs?
We tried these yesterday, so sticky rice with banana inside,
wrapped in a banana leaf, it's really really nice.
It's a bit sweet, but you should definitely try it.
They put it over these hot coals.
Wow, look at this.
Oh, look, rice.
All right, so we're walking through Po Market here,
in Siem Reap.
It's a fish market, you can buy chicken,
you can buy fruit and vegetables here.
It's extremely raw,
there's no other tourists here except us,
walking through here,
and there's women just sitting down,
cutting up all sorts of things.
I really do feel like I'm out of place, being here.
We're a little bit off the beaten track here,
so, but yeah, we're doing this
as part of a bicycle tour,
with a guide who can speak good English and can
explain things well, so probably best that you
maybe just get a guide, we're with Grasshopper Adventures
bicycle company, and yeah,
this is the kind of stuff you can buy here as well, look.
Spoons and chopsticks and machetes, and.
We're taking our bicycles as we continue our adventure,
as part of our bicycle tour,
we're leaving those markets, the local markets here.
And we're riding along Siem Reap River.
And it's kinda hard to ride a bicycle
and film at the same time, right,
'cause the road is really bumpy here,
on this really raw dirt track.
It's quite dusty, I should be wearing
a dust mask actually, to be honest with you,
I've been sneezing every day.
Every time I blow my nose in the shower
it's really dusty, so, sorry about the graphic, but,
I got a dust mask in my bag,
but I never wear it, so, I can't say I don't have one.
I actually have one in my bag.
Hey, how are you?
Just really friendly people.
It's about 10 o'clock in the morning,
there's the Siem Reap River just there.
I'd probably never swim in that,
'cause the water looks really really dirty.
So if you have any interest in coming to Cambodia,
let me know, whether it be in the comments,
or send me a message, where you're planning on travelling to,
Phnom Penh or Siem Reap, which is where we are.
And what you plan on doing here,
what adventures do you have planned?
I'm really curious to hear from you,
but I like making these videos because,
I like showing you that, the little kid just, hello.
These little kids on the motorbikes,
and they just, they're so happy, you know?
They just smile and they're so happy.
Anyway, so I like making these videos because,
I like to show everybody the beauty of the country,
the rawest form of a country,
share my personal experience navigating through it,
meeting people, eating the local food,
going off the beaten path a little bit.
Any place that has a lot of tourism freaks me out.
I like to just explore raw nature,
and bring the world with me as well.
And this is kinda not what you normally see,
little kids just running along the side of the road here.
Totally free, and I mean, one day,
hello, how are you?
- [Kid] Daddy?
- No, not daddy.
Did he say daddy?
Anyway, that's what I mean, right,
just really cool travel,
just going down these little dirt tracks.
Hello!
And, saying hello, hello!
No hello from him.
I'm leaving Cambodia tomorrow, guys,
this is my last day here.
Robyn's leaving on Sunday,
and that is it for my trip, hello!
And I love this country a lot, it's a beautiful country,
really is stunning.
The people are friendly, the food is really amazing,
definitely try the local food if you come here,
the amok is amazing, the banana flower salad is amazing.
This bridge that I'm about to ride over,
the Siem Reap River is pretty cool.
Look at that, how rad is that?
Anyway, so I'm behind the rest of the crowd,
so I have a little bit of peace,
and talk to the world, and share
what I love about Cambodia.
("Single Malt Housewarming")
All right, so we just stopped
into this local restaurant here,
on the side of the dirt track.
Surrounded by rice paddy fields,
and a lotus farm just over there.
Now, it doesn't have an English name,
so that's the name of this restaurant,
if you can catch that.
Now, this is a really cool place,
it's where the locals come,
there's no tourists that come here to this local restaurant,
but the locals come here in the afternoon,
late in the afternoon.
This sorta looks like, this little boardwalk thing,
I'll show you how cool this is.
No menu today.
Walking through here, we have a boardwalk,
and we've got little huts straight through here,
and each of the huts are these little areas
that people can eat, there's catfish down here,
swimming around, you can feed the catfish.
A lotus farm just through there.
And take you around this side, check this out,
this is pretty cool.
These little huts are floating on these barrels right here,
have lotuses right here.
We take the boardwalk down, and I'll show you.
Ooh, the catfish.
So you can come in here, this is your dining room.
This is what it looks like, this is so rad,
I mean, they say that there's no tourists that come here,
it's just the locals that come here.
Hello!
All right, fantastic cycling tour,
really great seeing how Cambodians live in the villages,
the rice paddies and all that.
Definitely recommend it,
I'll link it up in the description below.
And that's it, we're about to get some food,
and see you soon.