Highway 5, the only road between Phnom Penh and Battambang, the two largest cities in the country.
15 of us rode in two Land Cruisers to Battambang. We stopped for lunch in an unfinished gas station.
Four-wheel drives and these heavy double-bottom trucks bringing goods from Thailand are almost all the traffic
Our Leng Heng Hotel room costs $10.00 per night with air conditioning.
Khmers claim the fruits in Battambang are better and fresher because they are closer to the growing areas in Thailand
We passed many of these ox carts loaded with pottery bowls, fire pots, and other goods made in a southern province and heading north to market