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<\/a>\nIn hindsight, we should have applied the sunscreen more liberally. It was certainly warmer than we were thinking it would be.<\/p>\n
Landon decided to be funny guy and snag Sam and run her under the waterfall. It started out as expected…..<\/p>\n But it went south very quickly when he slipped on these very slippery rocks. And they both went down…….<\/p>\n There were millions of butterflies in this whole area, starting from right down on the road before we came into park area. Hoping to include a video….so you can see what a small portion of it looked like. But we did as Sam really wanted us to try it. Here is Troy’s face as he us trying to figure out what he is eating.<\/p>\n All things considered it was not a horrible first night sleep. We were safely tucked in by 8pm. Hit the wall not long after the pizza….so made our way right back to hotel. I woke up briefly at midnight then not again until 6am. We were at breakfast by 7:10am only to discover I’d booked […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thailand-2016"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.laurie.casaroberts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.laurie.casaroberts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.laurie.casaroberts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.laurie.casaroberts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.laurie.casaroberts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2569"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.laurie.casaroberts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2724,"href":"https:\/\/blog.laurie.casaroberts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2569\/revisions\/2724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.laurie.casaroberts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.laurie.casaroberts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.laurie.casaroberts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a>
\nWe stopped along the way to take pictures, enjoy the river and take selfies (of course). Up by where the dam is located there was a side road with a hut and a “guard” that was gesturing to us to go down the lane. (VS going towards the dam-which we know isn’t allowed \u00f0\u0178\u02dc\u2030). So we decide to turn off. A very short way in,there is a booth with a sign that indicates it is 10,000 R ($2.50 USD) \u00c2\u00a0to pass through. They assure us it is worth it, there are waterfalls etc up there. We pay up and pass through. Indeed after a short drive up a hillside on a tutted dirt path, there were lovely waterfalls. We park our bikes in the designated area and a young man comes out and tags our bikes. Hmmm, why would they do this? More on this later.<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nWe had fun walking up the remaining stairs\/hillside to reach the top where the waterfall was. Got some refreshing time in the cool water and enjoying the view.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0Luckily Sam is a good sport and didn’t clock Landon right back for this bit of monkey business.<\/p>\n
\nNow, to finish the tale of the parking, after we were done wandering around, we went over to where our bikes were parked.<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nThe cutest (and I mean cutest) little girl runs up to us and indicates we need to pay 1,000 riel to take our bikes. Hahaha, the shake down never ends…..but it is what it is (.25 cents) and she is cute, but I want my picture!!
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\nAfter all this excitement, we remembered the purpose of coming to this area was to stop and buy durian. The infamous durian that is so smelly it is banned from most hotels in Thailand. Can’t say ice seen the same postings I hotels here in Cambodia, but regardless, it is infamous for being really really smelly. We’ve never tried it.<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nIt doesn’t taste as bad as it smells (thankfully). It has the texture of soft avocado, but tastes like cantaloupe. I don’t care do cantaloupe so that knocks me out of the competition. And Troy doesn’t care for the texture of avocado, so now that we’ve tried it, we are good. Landon was not a big fan either……<\/p>\n<\/a><\/a><\/a>
\nDurian is rock hard on the outside with super sharp spikes. Like nails, it sharper….poor Landon got injured when a couple durians rolled off the table and his reflexes prompted him to try to catch them. One with his hand and the other with his leg. Ouch…..
\nGiven the time (noon) the decision was made to head back to town for some lunch. We went to Captain Chims to try to get the famous red soup that we were unsuccessful in securing two years ago. We ate like kings, red soup, amok, lol lak, crab satay, drinks. All this for $20<\/p>\n<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a>
\nWe had to have Sam back to hotel and ready for minivan back to phnom phen for 3pm. So we did that, then Landon troy and I headed back out on the bikes around 4pm. We went back to the “island” that we attempted a couple years ago. The weather was not nearly as cooperative as it was getting windy and rainy. But we still had fun and I was able to work through some of the vivid flashbacks I was having about driving a bike on a rutted, snotty, red dirt path right alongside a body of water……<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"