After about 10 minutes we were outside the city. It's an interesting drive, heading south on the main road to Phnom Penh. The road is being widened so lots of road works, and also people create a third lane and just drive in it which is wild. Cars, trucks, motor bikes, tuktuks and push bikes all share. It's chaos but all seems to work.
Out the window I got to see dry rice fields, women making and selling sticky rice on bamboo shoots in the road side, and just nice open views. Cambodia is very flat, and this is they dry season, so everything is hayed off.
The weather is surprisingly cool, everyone is in jumpers, for me it's nice T shirt weather of say 26.
We turned off the main road after about an hour,and drove 15 minutes in through several villages which merge with each other. There are about 14 villages in this commune, each with its own chief. Then their is a commune chief who then deals with the government.
The standard of village drops the further down the river you go.
Houses are on stilts, with the area underneath providing a cooler space in the heat. It also provides shelter for animals.
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