Book Description

Cycling Cambodia is a full-color travel pictorial, a photo-essay, a documentary, and a guidebook with all the info you need to set out on much the same journey around Cambodia as the author did or do a similar one per your own route and structure. It's a story of not only what's it like to cycle around Cambodia, including a side trip into Laos, but also an eloquent introduction to Cambodia's history and culture. Pictures of landscapes, towns and villages, temples and monuments, and glimpses of daily life will help you understand what you'll be seeing and be up against. Discovering the route to follow along the Mekong River to Laos, to the epic temples of Preah Vihear and Angkor Wat, and to Anlong Veng, the last stronghold of the notorious Khmer Rouge, will be essential to contemplating a similar journey on your own. But coming to Cambodia without an appreciation of temple architecture and Hindu iconography, Buddhism and Buddhist religious monuments and symbols will lessen the appeal of the journey. Written by an avid cyclist and a photographer, with many cycling guides to his name, a travel professional with an architectural background and four decades of travel and study of Hindu art and architecture throughout India, South and Southeast Asia, Cycling Cambodia provides that kind of background for a richer and more rewarding travel experience. Containing 414 photographs with informative captions, pertinent info for Laos border crossing, Preah Vihear temple visit logistics, history of the Khmer Rouge, Angkor Archaeological Park visit logistics, cycling details of route stages and distances, a list of accommodations, summary of local food and drink, and the route-related GPX cycling tracks you can download, the book promises to entice any intrepid or armchair traveler.