tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70472121894733626002024-02-18T19:43:17.901-08:00MotoASIA_2013-14BMW_2_Go!http://www.blogger.com/profile/12925848134870643085noreply@blogger.comBlogger148125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7047212189473362600.post-55296711382704284102015-03-03T12:46:00.002-08:002015-03-03T12:46:37.007-08:00Arrived!The container ship has arrived! <div>
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It sailed on January 18th, 2015 from Laem Chabang, Thailand, via Singapore, China and Japan and is finally here in the U.S.! A five week journey comes to an end, including the wait time in the Bay of San Pedro due to the strike of the Longshoremen.<div>
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Now just a few details are left to be solved: X-Ray of the container, customs clearance, warehousing, trucking to Chicago, warehousing there, truck to Champaign!</div>
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Will see when I can welcome the motorcycle in my garage again!</div>
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I will keep you posted.<div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">NYK Argus moored at its anchorage site at the port of Long Beach, CA.<br />behind it is the container vessel "City of Aachen" (Stadt Aachen), registered under the flag of Barbuda&Antigua, not Germany. This conatiner ship travelled in the last weeks up and down the coast, the last port of call was Los Angeles.<br /><br />Below: Container vessel at 'Terminal Island, Port of Long Beach, CA, south of I 710, Seaside Freeway.</td></tr>
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BMW_2_Go!http://www.blogger.com/profile/12925848134870643085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7047212189473362600.post-45634564899416317732015-02-23T08:22:00.000-08:002015-02-23T08:31:55.818-08:00DelayedMy last blog entry of January 28, 2015 stated optimistically that the container ship "NYK Argus" which carries the crate holding my motorcycle would arrive at the harbor in Long Beach, California on February 13, the scheduled arrival time.<br />
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Since then it became apparent that the shipment will be delayed by quiet some time.<br />
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Thousands of container ships dot the entire Pacific coast, from Canada to Mexico, eager to land and be unloaded at American ports however the union of the Longshoremen is in tough labor negotiations with the shipping companies. Billions worth of goods are unable to reach the shores, The ocean at Long Beach/Los Angeles looks like the coast of Normandy on D-Day, like one of the journalists writing about this major strike reported it.<br />
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Some shipping companies divert container vessels coming from Asia all the way through the Panama Canal to harbors on the U.S. east coast.<br />
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"My" vessel, the Argus took it slowly and is now about 400 miles off coast. The revised arrival is scheduled for March 5th, some three weeks later than originally planned.<br />
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Additional delays can be expected since the shipping company already notified me that the container holding the crate with my motorcycle was selected to be X-ray-security scanned, according to the 2007 rules by the Department of Homeland Security.<br />
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This is a random, port side X-ray; one has to imagine the enormity of the task when in 2016 each and every container entering the U.S. will need to be X-rayed.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Yesterday, February 22: Leisurely speed of 0.2 knots. A course of 196 degrees, away from the coast (?)</td></tr>
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I am not too unhappy that the shipment of the motorcycle is delayed so much. It saves me from a rather frigid riding experience.</div>
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I like to end with an image from climatically more pleasant places. Here is an image I received from my friend Dave in Phnom Penh. He took it while out and about in the remote countryside. (His KTM can be seen in the back, on left).</div>
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The image shows the ingenuity of Cambodian motorcycle owners: here someone welded an enforced steel frame and additional suspension featuring a total of eight (!) shock absorbers to the rear of a 125cc Honda. </div>
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BMW_2_Go!http://www.blogger.com/profile/12925848134870643085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7047212189473362600.post-78928572514536358332015-01-28T08:46:00.003-08:002015-01-28T08:46:44.264-08:00NYK Argus passes by the Japanese island of ShikokuToday, the 75,000 ton container vessel 'NYK Argus' passes by the smallest and least populated of Japan's four main islands, Shikoku.<br />
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It travels with a speed of 14 knots at a draught of 35 feet.<br />
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The last reported position before was in the East Taiwan Straights (Taiwan Banks) at height of Quangzhou, China.<br />
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This was four days and about 1,000 miles ago.<br />
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It will arrive in Los Angeles on February 13, 8:00 a.m., 16 days from now.BMW_2_Go!http://www.blogger.com/profile/12925848134870643085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7047212189473362600.post-1199105871778057962015-01-25T09:56:00.002-08:002015-01-25T09:56:16.769-08:00Trip Part 2: Phnom Penh, December 2014-Bangkok, January 2015<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />BMW_2_Go!http://www.blogger.com/profile/12925848134870643085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7047212189473362600.post-85496728751595615592015-01-25T09:39:00.002-08:002015-01-25T09:39:44.251-08:00Overview Trip Part 1: October 2013-March 2014<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Quick update on the large container vessel NYK Argus' route after it picked up the motorcycle in Laem Chabang port, south of Bangkok.<br />
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The container ship went in short sequence from Bangkok, Thailand, on January 18 to Singapore, the containers were NOT reloaded to another bigger ship, then, surprisingly, the ship went in short order from Singapore to Hongkong to pick up cargo, then to Shanghai were it was moored for two days, now it travels north along the Chinese coast.<br />
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If you enlarge the picture you see the little tag, 50 minutes ago was the last recording (January 25, 2015) traveling with a speed of 14 knots (16 mph, 25 km/h), soon reaching the northern tip of Taiwan.<br />
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The ship has traveled since my bike was loaded already some 2,500 nautical miles. I think this is amazing.<br />
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It is assuring that the tag says: Destination: Los Angeles.<br />
<br />BMW_2_Go!http://www.blogger.com/profile/12925848134870643085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7047212189473362600.post-47671953446516206132015-01-16T04:43:00.003-08:002015-01-16T04:43:30.967-08:00NYK ArgusThe newly built crate has already cleared Thai customs, is loaded LCL ('Less-than-Container-Load') into a container and was trucked to Laem Chabang where it awaits loading on board the container vessel NYK 'Argus', sailing under the flag of Panama, Singapore-bound.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Maybe the motorcycle is in this container I've seen on a road in downtown Bangkok? Who knows.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">NYK 'Argus', currently in Singapore.<br />Will take cargo and sail from Bangkok on January 18, the day of my flight back to the U.S.<br />This is only a intermediate ship, cargo will be reloaded in Singapore to sail to Long Beach California.<br />For those curious: Ocean freight from Bangkok to Long Beach CA is a mere $540.-, this amounts to about 4 US Cents/km. (13,500 kilometers)</td></tr>
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The way this was handled by Prompt Shipping Company Ltd. in Bangkok can only be described as "perfect". A visit to their offices today on busy Rama IV. Road, a last meeting with Khun Nikorn, the General manager, and all is done and settled.<br />
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The NYK 'Argus' sails to the port of Singapore on January 18 where the container will be transferred to an even larger container ship taking the cargo across the pacific to Long Beach, California.<br />
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We will see how everything goes with U.S. Customs; it shouldn't be a problem looked at the transaction from a rational standpoint, but Customs isn't rational, sometimes.<br />
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The journey will take four weeks, instead of the three months it took to get the motorcycle here.<br />
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I paid my bill, say Good Bye! to friendly, professional Khun Nikorn, and head out for even more important issues, such as getting the 'best haircut in the world', from a young tomboy at a salon where I have been before. And taking more pictures, of course.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My wine loving friends from the U.S could probably be found here, I guess.</td></tr>
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<br />BMW_2_Go!http://www.blogger.com/profile/12925848134870643085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7047212189473362600.post-44279342377790046062015-01-15T08:45:00.002-08:002015-01-15T08:45:29.138-08:00Walking the CityWithout too much comment just some impressions from my walks through Bangkok. There isn't much to do for me anymore, I will have a last meeting with the Thai shipping agent tomorrow afternoon, my flight back to Chicago via Tokyo is on Sunday morning. I am not looking forward to the cold at all.<br />
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The temperatures here were wonderfully mild, little humidity, at least much less than in the coming months here.<br />
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Enjoy the pictures as much as I enjoyed finding the subjects and taking the image.<br />
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<br />BMW_2_Go!http://www.blogger.com/profile/12925848134870643085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7047212189473362600.post-81568634252987845942015-01-14T04:26:00.000-08:002015-01-14T04:44:49.717-08:00Beware of VANGUARD Logistic Services, Bangkok!!!One would assume that the shipping agent and company which conducted the shipping of the motorcycle from the U.S. to Thailand in 2013 would be the natural choice for return trip shipping.<br />
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Maybe in theory. But in reality one could not be more wrong!<br />
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To deal with VANGUARD's local Bangkok office was an experience I will not forget easily. Here, the level of customer disservice is defined anew. I have never encountered a more confusing, unhelpful, disorganized and unprofessional way of dealing with me, the paying customer. Their business policy seems to be to make it as hard as possible for a customer, at least in the case of a private shipper, like myself. On top comes their utter inability to speak English.<br />
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Maybe they deal with their regular commercial customers in a different way, who knows. I, at least, don't, and I don't want to know.<br />
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Due to my limited time here in the country I needed to get the return shipping squeezed in during my stay here, of course. My time in Thailand cannot be extended, plus the bike only has a temporary import license until the end of the month of January. After that, customs penalties will be applied (max. 10,000 Thai Baht up to 6 month, after that, potential confiscation of the vehicle.)<br />
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VANGUARD and their dismal 'service' did cost me around three precious weeks of my stay here, and without materializing into any tangible result.<br />
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After I realized that VANGUARD would be a NO GO, I contacted by email, and/or phone, including my office visits at VANGUARD ten companies:<br />
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1. DB Schenker, fully owned by German railways: Major shipping and relocation company.<br />
No personal effects are handled.<br />
2. Kuehne & Nagel, large Swiss based shipping company: Same.<br />
3. DHL: No ocean shipping.<br />
4. BlueSta Shipping, Bangkok. A contact I had from Thai friends of mine in Bangkok:<br />
More than 1.5x the cost, yet no crating services, no U.S. Customs clearance. A weird experience too since the company doesn't have a web site.<br />
5. APL Logistics, a contact I had from Frank, my German friend in Tucson, Arizona, who imports lots of ceramics from Vietnam to the U.S.: Never got back to me.<br />
6. Boonma Outbound Inc., an affiliate of DB Schenker: Never got back to me.<br />
7. Freight Center Inc. Never got back to me.<br />
8. EaseFreight, Bangkok. Never got back to me.<br />
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The last shipping agent I contacted, literally, I had from my frantic search on the various motorcycle forums on the internet. It was Prompt Shipping in Bangkok.<br />
(Contacting means to send about 15 pdf. attachments of various necessary documents, most of the time in 'installments' to avoid maximum data limits by the receiver, meaning countless emails.<br />
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Here is the link to RideAsia.net where I found the company who finally appeared to be god sent:<br />
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http://www.rideasia.net/motorcycle-forum/red-tape-border-crossing-requirements/4182-motorcycle-crating-bangkok-customs-agent.html<br />
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I am happy that I was so lucky.<br />
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After my nightmare-ish experience with the same company who delivered the motorcycle to Asia, I can't image that any other agent would do a better job than Khun Mon from Prompt Shipping.<br />
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Thanks, indeed.<br />
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<br />BMW_2_Go!http://www.blogger.com/profile/12925848134870643085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7047212189473362600.post-67656031644022415992015-01-14T03:39:00.000-08:002015-01-14T03:39:03.177-08:00Sakolchai Transpack Bang Na: THE Place To Go For Expert Crating.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The very last ride of this trip: <br />Downtown Bangkok to the crating company in Bang Na.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bangkok morning rush hour. Actually, it is like this for most of the day.<br />People are saying that in case the Vietnamese ever should invade Thailand, their tanks would get stuck in Bangkok traffic, and that would be the end of that.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Multiple layers of traffic in the Asian metropolis. From top:<br />1. Skytrain Light Rail System<br />2. Toll Road Highway<br />3. Pedestrian Walkway<br />4. Street level Traffic<br />5. Below: Metro</td></tr>
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Voluntarily I wouldn't want to ride a heavy and wide motorcycle through morning rush hour from downtown Bangkok to the industrial outskirts south of the CBD, towards the harbor in Laem Chabang.<br />
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But today is a special day, indeed. My bike will be crated and trucked to the Thailand harbor in for ocean freight shipping back to the U.S.!<br />
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What a relief!<br />
Almost in the last hour I found a terrific agent and shipping company who will handle everything from customs clearance to shipping and truck delivery to Champaign, Illinois. They are fast in the responses, very helpful and know this business. Their main work is to ship and clear customs for car manufacturers exhibition cars, which are broad for a brief time into the country, and are exported again. However, motorcycle shipping, private cars, even private yachts is what they know too.<br />
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I was truly lucky to have found them.<br />
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The agent recommended a crating company south of the city, which is a 40 minute ride from where I am in downtown, traffic already counted in.<br />
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I made it fine to the location which -due to the confusing Bangkok street designation system- is best reached by using GPS coordinates. I arrive at 9.15 a.m., and after some telephone conversation with security at the factory gate, I am let in. The picture changes dramatically after the arrival of Khun Mon <span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; white-space: nowrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Mingmongkolkij</span></span>, my Thai shipping agent from Prompt Shipping, who clarifies everything in Thai.<br />
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For then on the operation runs very smoothly; it is a pleasure to see the crew working to fabricate the crate.<br />
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In the meantime I have disassembled the windshield, mirrors, and front wheel; the precious front disc brakes are security wrapped and attached to the front fork, the battery is disconnected and the terminals and wires are safely wrapped in electrical tape. (We don't want to get into the fuel issue, but the little fuel which was left in the tank wasn't drained.)<br />
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It takes four hours to make the crate, including my prep work. The end result is a beautiful, U.S. spec fumigated wooden crate, entirely enclosed, no open slats, also a U.S. requirement.<br />
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A job well done!<br />
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I am somewhat spoiled by CRATETECH's crating quality at their Chicago location, but the guys could learn a thing or two here in Bangkok!<br />
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Thank you SAKOLCHAI!<br />
The truck will come to pick up the box tomorrow morning.<br />
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The crate had a volume of 4.50 m3 on the way from the U.S. to Thailand, now, due to the front wheel being taken off, I was able to shave 1.00 m3 off which will make shipping cheaper.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lots of picture taking by the SAKOLCHAI staff.</td></tr>
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<br />BMW_2_Go!http://www.blogger.com/profile/12925848134870643085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7047212189473362600.post-30608488628986232702015-01-13T04:49:00.000-08:002015-01-13T04:49:02.819-08:00Last few miles on the roadTomorrow in Bangkok my motorcycle will be put in a wooden crate and prepared for shipping.<br />
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This ends my trip through Asia on my own temporarily imported motorcycle. It is a moment of relief yet also of great sadness, all at the same time. Sometimes I can't imaging that the journey comes to an end.<br />
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I met so many people on this long ride, people who were incredibly generous in their help or friendship, truly amazing folks who I would not have met otherwise. I saw amazing, joyful and sad things along the way, I encountered temperatures between 8 degrees C and 40 C, altitudes from sea level to 2,900 meters (Phou Bia, Laos). The sun was shining, it was overcast sometimes, and sometimes I went through flooding and heavy rain. Most of the times, however, it was dusty and dry, my lungs are rich in the local red dirt.)<br />
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Of course one could ask whether I would do it again, to ship my BMW from the U.S., instead of renting one. This is a questions I was asked sometimes. I thought about it, about the significant complexities of the shipping, customs clearance, and last but not least, the expense involved.<br />
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The answer is a clear "Yes! Of course I would do it again."<br />
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There is simply no comparison between riding on your own, very capable machine, versus enduring a ride like this one on an old, beat-up 'war horse' motorcycle one may find to rent somewhere. (BTW cost is a considerable factor: The cost for renting can be significant. I was on the road for approximately seven months, which equals to: 7 x 30+/-days x $49.00 (in Thailand, for a larger bike, maybe a HONDA Transalp or Teneree = Total about 10,000.-. Compared to this, my expenses related to the motorcycle riding were a BARGAIN! And you won't be able to rent a bike like mine.)<br />
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Besides, a very important consideration is the fact that borders can only be crossed on self-owned vehicles. That would limit the riding of a rented bike to one country only. (Maybe flights to other countries and renting locally could solve this to a degree, however, try to rent a larger motorcycle in Laos, for example. Impossible.)<br />
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The own motorcycle, especially a machine like mine, is in all of these countries also a true conversation starter. It is impossible to not get in contact with folks on the road, foreigners or locals alike, motorcyclists or not.<br />
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Tomorrow will be, maybe, my last blog entry, the crating of the bike, a Good Bye! and some low-key 'final remarks'.<br />
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Here are the last images from yesterdays ride into the capital of Thailand.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Wonderful, hand-made spirit houses. <br />I should have bought one and ship it back with the motorcycle. <br />They are usually erected at the edge of a building site and provide a new home for the spirits of the land after a new building went up.</td></tr>
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<br />BMW_2_Go!http://www.blogger.com/profile/12925848134870643085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7047212189473362600.post-15516315169774296832015-01-13T04:10:00.002-08:002015-01-13T04:10:32.222-08:00Bar Beer GhostsThere is the somewhat true saying that, if a foreigner wants to make a small fortune in Thailand, he needs to bring a big one. This seems to be the general consensus among 'farangs' in the know, and it is true especially for running a Bar Beer. (Adjectives or pronouns are put <i>behind</i> the noun in Thai, therefore it is not a Beer Bar but a Bar Beer.) This is in essence a small, open-air place which has a few bar stools and sells beer. One can find them almost everywhere.<br />
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I added a few pictures of the many failed Bar Beers, one can run into; I call them the 'Bar Beer Ghosts'. And yes, some of them are really scary, too.<br />
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I don't think that anyone makes any money on a bar like this, no matter what the design of the business plan looks like.<br />
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But it is part of the Thai popular culture and that is why I appreciate the risk takers opening, and/or running one.<br />
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<br />BMW_2_Go!http://www.blogger.com/profile/12925848134870643085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7047212189473362600.post-11842968751796082522015-01-10T19:21:00.001-08:002015-01-10T21:06:55.393-08:00Tomorrow Bangkok<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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My great trip through three Asian countries comes to a close soon. It is just a mere 130 km to Bangkok now. What a difference to my motorcycle experience last year, and the year before. Then, I immensely enjoyed the freedom to plan my itinerary as I went along, that freedom of time allowed me to stop where ever I liked the scenery, the food, or the people (or everything above). Now, I am under the pressure to fit into a strict bureaucratic schedule, find a customs broker, a shipping company, a crating company, a bonded warehouse, a trucking company, all while trying to negotiate the less than understandable English competency of most of my partners, and stay sane at the same time.<br />
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Eventually, it all will work out just fine (I hope.)<br />
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For Good Luck I went to the local Wat (Monastery) and asked the monk to give me a blessing for the remainder of the road. I wear my Buddha amulet from<span style="color: white;"> <span style="background-color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 20px;">Wat Thepthidaram Worawihan (Wat Thepthidaram) on </span><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;">Mahachai Road which I bought two years ago.</span></span></span><br />
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Only a few remaining images here, the next bigger blog entry will be when the bike moves into a crate, and my nerves are recovering.<br />
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For now just a few remaining impressions from the road.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"I don't like to have my picture taken!"</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The catch of today. Look at the eyes: It can't get fresher than this.</td></tr>
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<br />BMW_2_Go!http://www.blogger.com/profile/12925848134870643085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7047212189473362600.post-9730077462547864772015-01-08T19:01:00.000-08:002015-01-08T19:01:13.981-08:00Quiet Seaside Towns in Chantaburi ProvinceI continue my ride up along the coast of the Gulf of Thailand, final destination Bangkok. The shipping arrangements are still up in the air which makes me increasingly nervous.<br />
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But today I just pretend that everything is fine and I stop for the night in a small, quiet seaside town in Chantaburi Province. This is still far enough south from the hectic and incredibly traffic intensive commercial, shipping, industrial and logistics heart of Thailand which starts around 30 km south of Rayong, some 160 km north of where I spend the night..<br />
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Here, everything is very quiet, no tourists, the coast and the little towns remind me a lot of my childhood vacations with my parents in Normandy, France. There are the same little shops selling the same beach gear, the colorful air mattresses, swim gear, towels, fishing roads like 50 years ago.<br />
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The restaurant where I decide to have dinner has set up the tables in the sand, the fishing boats are already out with their strong flood lights turned on, they can be seen 20 to 30 km off the coast.<br />
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The food (Chicken with fried cashew nuts, vegetables and rice) is delicious, but despite the two mosquito coils the waitress places under my table in the sand, I get eaten alive. Too bad, I can't enjoy the tasteful dish. It's the first time on this trip that I get bitten by mosquitoes so much. I can't help to think of the little girl at Sonja Kill Memorial Hospital in Kampot, Cambodia who was treated for Dengue fever. The Deep Woods DEET is safely packed away in the panniers of the motorcycle. Oh well. But despite the little critters, it is a wonderful evening at the beach.<br />
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<br />BMW_2_Go!http://www.blogger.com/profile/12925848134870643085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7047212189473362600.post-23002743322522750972015-01-07T01:51:00.003-08:002015-01-07T01:52:23.753-08:00Leaving Mairood: It is hard!I had again such a relaxing time at Mairood, enjoyed the company of Chin, the Thai owner, and Judy, the 'life-survival-artist', that it feels really difficult to say Good Bye! It will not be forever, I am sure.<br />
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Mairood is such an unusual location, a super-scenic 'alternative', small resort like not many on Earth, unspoiled by (mass-) tourism, a true oasis, a little paradise.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Yaya came to inspect the open-air restaurant. She found it to be acceptable and walked away.</td></tr>
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I enjoy the animals roaming around, the exotic birds, the ill-tempered gobblers, the proud roosters and their harem, the numerous dogs, three cats, and of course, beautiful Yaya, the little pig. At night there are the sounds of the bigger geckos, their call sounds a bit like 'wussy-wussy', or something like that. At around four in the morning the big diesel engines of the fishing boats wake me up when the fishermen go out to sea.<br />
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This morning when I had my early, and last, breakfast at Mairood, Yaya came to check out all of the restaurant area. She wandered around, inspected everything, found it to be in order and walked away.<br />
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After getting the bike out of Chin's garage on the mainland, packing everything up, my ride goes first down south again, to the Thai-Cambodian border, a detour which costs me more than 1 hour and a half. I have to try to communicate somehow with the Thai Customs Officers there about the necessary paperwork for exporting the bike. My shipping company gives me such a hard time concerning all this paperwork that I thought it would be a good idea to return to the border post since I am only 30 miuntes away.<br />
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As expected, the talk to the officials resulted in nothing new, I have all the necessary forms, I was told; if I could only convince my 'helpful' shipping 'friends' (not) of that. Again, we will see.<br />
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The ride north towards Bangkok will be partially on Highway 3 (this is like riding on a German highway, excellent road conditions, everybody follows the rules, people even stop at red lights, in brief: boring!)<br />
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I decide to leave No. 3 and follow rural, winding roads up north, following the scenic coastline, with many inlets, bays, and large peninsulas.<br />
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I leave Highway No. 3, 'Sukhumvit' (yes, the one of the same name as the major boulevard in Bangkok), and continue on Rural Highway 3149. This road passes an exuberant Buddha Park, Wat Chak Yai (Wat Buddha Park), with numerous large scales scenes of the life of Buddha, most all of them donated by wealthy families who want 'to do merit', in other words, like to prepare for the next life with some good deeds.<br />
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This is very, very nice, a Thailand I haven't encountered before. Although this is high season, tourist numbers: 0, or very small. All tourists are Thai, most likely escapees from Bangkok's mayhem!<br />
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I stop at a beach hotel near the city of Chantaburi, only some 330 km left to Bangkok!<br />
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Mairood, a bustling little fishing community not far north of the Thai-Cambodian border is my next stop.<br />
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I have been here before last December, and I am happy to return to this little paradise. Chin, the Thai owner who spends half the year in his second home on Nantucket Island, Mass., and Judy from Canada were glad to see me back. Or maybe, they weren't, because of my less than favorable review of their fabulous place on Agoda. We all had a good laugh, and the issue was settled, kind-of.<br />
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I moved in to the little bungalow #1, the one with the sun room and the American flag (a Russian guest once threw the flag out into the yard), and I am happy to spend a few days here, entirely cut of from the world and everything else (well, of course there is an excellent, fast Wifi connection!), surrounded by chickens, cats, many dogs, and geckos, and a new member of the family, Yaya, the little pig. It is just great.<br />
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The village is inhabited by Cambodian refugees who fled the atrocities of the Khmer Rouge regime in the mid 1970s, now the village leaves the impression that everyone is fairly well off. The fresh catch, crab, shrimp/prawn, fish are plentiful, and business seems to be very good. Sometimes the larger boats go out for a few days and nights on end, before coming back to anchor in the village.<br />
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All homes and the little concrete footpath are build on stilts, no cars, vans or trucks can access here. Walking through the village is walking through peoples living rooms. Everything is out in the open, children play carefree, the motor-scooters which are coming and going have the right of way. When they are coming it is best to step into one of the private residences and let them by.<br />
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<br />BMW_2_Go!http://www.blogger.com/profile/12925848134870643085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7047212189473362600.post-18749032671310875722015-01-05T22:37:00.001-08:002015-01-06T00:06:33.340-08:00Sihanoukville - Cham Yeam (Cambodia) Border Check Point, Ban Hat Lek (Thailand)<br />
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The ride to the border leaves Sihanoukville on the infamous Cambodian Highway No. 4, the same road one would take when going back to Phnom Penh. The traffic is typically pretty heavy, the great number of big Angkor beer trucks coming from Angkor's (Carlsberg) only Cambodian brewery going mostly to the capital Phnom Penh add to the mix.<br />
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The heavy and at times crazy traffic changes completely when turning left from No.4 to the rural highway No. 48 towards the Cardamon Mountains and Thailand. Last year's ride on this road was a challenge, maybe a good third of the stretch from the Cambodian-Thai border to the city of Sihanoukville were still unpaved gravel, or worse, construction sites. Last year I had a near miss on a gravel road when some adventurous Khmer motorist in his old Toyota Camry was passing a truck, gravel was flying everywhere, and he either didn't see me on my lane, or, more likely, he didn't care since two-wheeled vehicles have to go off the road if necessary. However, there was nowhere to go because of the gravel shoulder, and a steep drop.<br />
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Now, one full year ahead, much has changed. The road is, with the exception of about 25 km total, in relatively good condition, and best of all, there isn't hardly any traffic. The signs which warn of elephants and dangerous curves add to the entertainment.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Water buffaloes keep nicely to their side of the road. <br />
Cambodia has right hand traffic like the US and Europe, Thailand left-hand traffic.</td></tr>
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Overall it is a very pleasant ride through dense jungle territory, few fishing villages, and across nice, well-built and long concrete bridges crossing the rivers, and one long one near Krong Khemara Phoumin, just before the town of Pyam, and reaching the border.<br />
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But I wasn't too much contemplating the road condition. My mind was preoccupied with the border crossing technicalities. The motorcycle was an 'undocumented', foreigned-owned vehicle for one full year in Cambodia, and I was not sure what to expect, especially from the Thai Customs people.<br />
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I can now take off my home-made headlight screen, necessary in Cambodia since riding with the lights on is illegal.</td></tr>
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After some 4+ hours of pleasant rural countryside riding I reach the border.<br />
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The border formalities, my visa and the so-called Thai 'Simplified Vehicle Importation' and 'Thai Conveyance Information' documents (the 'Visa' for the motorcycle were easily obtained, filled-out and stamped, I was completely surprised how easy everything went.<br />
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I am now back in Thailand on my way to Bangkok.<br />
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Next stop my hosts Chin, from Nantucket and Judy from Canada, the little 'paradise' resort in Mairood, Trat Province, Thailand.<br />
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<br />BMW_2_Go!http://www.blogger.com/profile/12925848134870643085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7047212189473362600.post-41132333012245775042015-01-05T21:44:00.003-08:002015-01-05T21:57:15.236-08:00Short stay in SihanoukvilleI stayed a few days in this Cambodian harbor town before continuing on my last longer ride through the Cambodian country side, from Sihanoukville to the Cambodian-Thai border.<br />
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There isn't much to report from here, I stayed in an inexpensive small hotel near Victory Beach, run by a British fellow and his Khmer wife; in the evening I went to a small, nice bar which distinguished itself from others by displaying a German flag. The owner was nice enough so I went there two evenings to have a beer. It turned out that he is originally from Poland, but lived in Germany as a political refugee from, at the time, communist Poland. Now he owns this nice bar.<br />
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I hooked up also with Dennis, the electrician from Germany who works in Amsterdam. We did some riding together last year; he keeps an older, beat-up HONDA Transalp in Sihanoukville, ready to ride whenever he visits. We had lunch together and regretted that I could stay that long this time. Maybe next year we plan for a nice, longer off-road ride to Ratanakiri, maybe ten days.<br />
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Of course, my breakfasts were taken at 'Douceur de Cambodge', Boulangerie Francaise, this fabulous French-owned bakery owned and operated by Vincent, croissants, baguette to die for.<br />
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From Kep to Kampot it is only a short ride. I didn't stay overnight.<br />
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A quick stop to take some last pictures of more 'interesting' Cambodian roundabout sculpture, a visit to the market to talk to the nice, smart salesman where I bought a phone which doesn't work that well, and I should be on my way.<br />
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I paid a little extra to have my new/old Samsung phone which I bought a few days ago at this open-air stall replaced for a new/old LG G Pro. For some reason the Samsung which was a refurbished phone from Korea, made in Vietnam, didn't produce a good signal. It is beyond my understanding how this phone business in Cambodia works, but the new LG I bought looks brand new and works like a charm, except that it has Korean characters and keyboard (No, they can be switched to English, but first I was a little surprised.) I cannot post the price here, but what I spent was ridiculously little.</div>
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BMW_2_Go!http://www.blogger.com/profile/12925848134870643085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7047212189473362600.post-69620789438684827962015-01-05T20:34:00.002-08:002015-01-05T20:34:46.258-08:00Leaving KepI spent New Year's Eve on a large plaza in front of the Provincial Government Hall in Kep, together with another thousand or more people from the surrounding villages, or Khmer travelers coming from even as far as Phnom Penh. It seemed that I was the only 'Barang' (Foreigner). The Angkor beer company had set up a sales tent, consumption of the good local brew was heavy, not only for me, but for everyone else too. The pavement of the plaza was littered with empty cans, paper wrappers of food items, banana leaves (also used as food wrappers).<br />
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There were no big firework displays, but people enjoyed to ignite long handled, hand-held sticks which shoot out nice fireworks for about 2-3 minutes each. They were very popular. Numerous food stalls sold everything from fried grasshoppers, grilled snakes to freshly made popcorn; The atmosphere was one typical at county fairs, with small merry-go-rounds and other low-key amusements. It was nice.<br />
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After a few relaxing days with food from the superb local restaurant 'KIMLY' (Crab, crab, and more crab! http://www.kep-cambodia.com/mainpages/PlacesinKep/kimly-restaurant.html) I am heading out of this pleasant, quiet little sea side town, going West, eventually ending at the Thai-Cambodian border.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We don't know what the coming year will bring, but let's be hopeful (for a few good motorcycle rides, too!) and optimistic (maybe a few New Year wishes will come true this year). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">But the lack of scenic beauty isn't the reason why I came here. The attraction is a large limestone mountain which, -due to groundwater erosion-, has collapsed and left a huge hole in its center, overgrown by the jungle. The way to get to the hole is through a system of caves and narrow tunnels which are home to several religious shrines.</span></span><br />
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At a small landing pier I see monks boarding a small motor vessel. They will cross over to Rabbit Island to celebrate New Year. It is a nice and colorful image.<br />
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It can't get any more laid-back and quiet than here!<br />
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Kep, founded by the French as the future 'St. Tropez of South-East Asia', Kep-Sur-Mer, only better, bigger and more beautiful, is today a calm, relaxed and lovely town, spread out far along the beautiful coast, its landscape dotted by the ruins of grand French-colonial built mansions. It is close to the border to Vietnam, some 15 km away.<br />
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The natural beauty of the locale is stunning,<br />
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I am, however, also drawn here by the French developments, the ruins of the former French seaside extravaganza, shelled, bombed, and riddles by machine gun fire under the Khmer Rouge rule. The large French master-planned town could never develop into the luxurious resort is was meant to be. After the heydays of independence the French left in the early 1960s, The Khmer Rouge destroyed the little building and development which had occurred til then.<br />
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I went to see one of the very few almost finished mansions, probably the biggest and most splendid one, directly adjacent of the beach and on the main road. It is largely empty, some squatters occupy parts of the grand house; some of the folks who live here must be paid by somebody to take care of the beautiful large well-maintained grounds.<br />
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A fabulous mansion.<br />
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Is there food in Kep-Sur-Mer? Oh, yes, and delicious food too.<br />
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Along the coast is the Kep seafood market where some twenty shacks offer the freshest and most amazing seafood; crab is king here, but everything else is available too. Preparations are typically steamed, or grilled, mostly served with Kampot pepper sauce and rice. Very good.<br />
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<br />BMW_2_Go!http://www.blogger.com/profile/12925848134870643085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7047212189473362600.post-74933816901608126502014-12-29T01:52:00.000-08:002014-12-29T01:52:44.402-08:00Sothy's Pepper FarmIn the foothills of the mountains bordering the coastal town of Kep, one can find several pepper plantations growing some of the best pepper in the world. The road system is strictly dirt tracks, the pavement ends at the main connector roads from Kampot to Kep, and then further on to Phnom Penh.<br />
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The hilly terrain, except for the plantations, is heavily forested. It amazes me to learn that up until the mid-1990s (!) the Khmer Rouge (KR) were still nestled into this remote jungle, fighting government forces who, ironically, were members of the KR previously, including their leadership.<br />
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I visit the Sothy farm, partly also because it is owned by a German man, married to a Khmer woman. They operate the plantation since some 20 years. During the off-season they employ four to six workers, during harvest, -they also grow durian fruit, Rambutan and Mango, whole villages are asked to come and help.<br />
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Pepper fascinates me since I was young, now I know a little more about it.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The manager. He has a Master's degree in agriculture from a university in Moscow, Russia.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lime tree. Since this is a Eco-Certified organic plantation no insecticides are being used. Lime works as repellent.</td></tr>
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The farm grows the three different types of pepper common in the area: Black, Red and White. Green pepper, that means the fresh, unripened fruit directly from the plant, has such a short shelf life that it needs to be consumed no later than three days of harvest.<br />
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Red pepper has a skin, which can be removed by hand. After scraping the skin off, this pepper corn is white in color.<br />
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The black pepper is cooked fruit from the plant which subsequently is dried in large baskets in the sun.<br />
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The plants can reach a hight up to 10 feet, the lifespan is some 20 years after which new fruit trees are planted. It takes three years before they bear fruit.<br />
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All harvesting, sorting, washing is completely done by hand, there are no mechanical devices used at all. Good pepper is expensive, however if you see the hand labor going into the process it is surprising that it doesn't cost ten times as much.<br />
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A very pleasant morning in the forest.<br />
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<br />BMW_2_Go!http://www.blogger.com/profile/12925848134870643085noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7047212189473362600.post-9808923515451153042014-12-29T01:19:00.001-08:002014-12-30T01:00:35.947-08:00Back in KampotKampot, located in the province of the same name, some 3 hours south of Phnom Penh, isn't really a coastal town since there isn't any beach access. It belongs to the Top Ten of towns which I had a chance to see on my motorcycle tour over the past few month. I traveled, -and still do-, through three countries, Laos, Thailand and Cambodia, and had a chance to see diverse communities, from enchanting to dismal.<br />
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The list goes like this (In no particular order, I haven't made my mind up yet completely):<br />
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1. Kampot, Cambodia,<br />
2. Mae Hong Son, Thailand<br />
3. Chiang Saen, Thailand<br />
4. Nong Kai, Thailand<br />
5. Kep, Cambodia<br />
6. Battambang, Cambodia<br />
7. Siem Reap, Cambodia<br />
8. Phnom Penh, Cambodia<br />
9. Cha Am, Thailand,<br />
10. Klong Yai, Thailand<br />
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The reason why Luang Brabang, Laos, didn't made the cut is simply that it is too overrun by Western tourist for my taste, at least. I am one myself, I know, but still.<br />
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So now I am back in Kampot. It is just great to hang out here, not much to do, just watch the river go by, and the fishermen go out to sea at around 5 p.m. Here also much has changed. Formerly dismal dirt roads are now four-lane highways, many new buildings are gone up, and one sees many more foreigners, also ex-ptas, mainly from Europe and the U.S. But overall, this is still a rural fishing community, with no supermarkets or shopping malls, no chain stores, no large hotels, and no Western restaurants. And people still have to water the dirt road in front of their house if they don't want to be overwhelmed by dust. This is Cambodia!<br />
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I like it here very much.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Another example in my series of "Funky Cambodian Roundabout Sculptures"</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And another one.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This might not look like much but it is the shop of the one-eyed lady Ms.Sokha, who is able to provide the best massage I have ever encountered. <br />
I know her from a year ago. <br />
The sensations she is able to evoke range from "heavenly bliss" to "pure and unapologetic, terrifying pain".</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ms. Sokha.</td></tr>
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