Poipet

Poipet, the border town between Thailand and Cambodia. This is a pretty rough town: within 5 minutes of our entry to Cambodia, a sneak thief struck our group. Fortunately, he didn't get anything.

Poipet is largely unmechanized. Here, a giant cart is being hauled by a team of five men (!).

A Cambodian gas station. Gas is stored in a variety of containers, from the big plastic containers shown here, to soda and water bottles (!)

Me with our minivan, at the gas station.

Believe it or not, this is a *good* Cambodian road. Bumpy as hell, but at least you're not going to break an axle.

This is also a good Cambodian road, nice flat dirt, good view over the ricefields.

This is a not so good Cambodian road...(and bear in mind, this is a major highway!)

...and this is a bad one. Note the giant potholes, big enough to sink an elephant in. I didn't get a photo of the worst road, but let's just say it was an asphalt version of a bad dirt road, complete with washboarding and giant potholes. Curiously enough the entire mess was still covered evenly asphalt, suggesting that this travesty was *intentional* !

And here is a completely gratuitous statue of some god/demon killing a bull. Cambodia is full of sights like these; I never did find out what this one meant.

Oxcarts and cars share the road in Cambodia!