July 1st, 2016
July 1st Happy Canada day🎉🎉
We decided to have breakfast somewhere other than the hotel today as we figured if we are paying, we might as well see what else it out there. So we got ourselves up bright and early and went to the Main Street where there are lots of restaurants. We found a place with breakfast options and ordered a “big breakfast” sausage, bacon, eggs, toast, mashed potato and coffee for $4. How could this not be great! We had a omelette, bread and coffee at hotel for $3.50 yesterday. As it turns out, it was really quite good. It was real bacon and real sausage! Some times here they try to pass a hotdog off as sausage. I’m always sceptical until I see it.
We ate up heartily and were on the road by 8am. Off to Bokor mountain today. Hoping for better weather than the last time were here when about halfway up the mountain, we drove in rain and fog and it was freezing. Actually!
The views are amazing…
It took about an hour to climb this windy mountain road, but the pavement is good and it is fun to ride on these curvy roads, it’s so quiet and there is no traffic…..
We stopped at some beautiful waterfalls. popokvil waterfalls, my boys got some Great photos I am sure. They were slightly more adventurous in where they were willing to climb out to than I was.
The weather was better than our last trip up. Although there were some definite fog patches. We saw the “old casino, the “Catholic Church” and a lovely temple that was inundated with tourists….
The boys put on their headlamps to explore the basement of the old casino. I passed. I would have happily gone along, but darn it we only have two headlamps!
Since we were up and at it so early, we were home by mid afternoon. We did stop in town and have lunch, then after a brief rest up at the hotel, troy and I went back out on our bikes. We ventured off to explore a resort called Nataya. It was beautiful, but a ways out of town, so not likely we would stay here, but they had an ocean pool which we thought was really neat, (clearly under maintenance at the moment) and this long pier that had a couple grass huts attached, this looked like new construction, so not sure how it all works, but possibly you rent them or something?
Believe it or not the rooms at this resort are only ~$45 USD a night. Amazing.
Sometimes when you fill up with gas at a station, they give you a little snack/treat. This was our treat today. Believe it or not, it was tasty…yes, I ate it. Gas station treat….
