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You want to experience being the most unique is that?

Forget the Maglev in Shanghai. Forget Shinkansen in Japan. Forget the Trans-Siberian. And forget the TGV between Quebec and Windsor (in fact, that one, you can forget it but for reasons different from the other three ... with the full capacity of our brave politicians to connect, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict will settled before the first shovelful of earth in Quebec).

Oops, I digress ...

No, for the experiment most peatedly that is, no need for all these wonderful technologies floating trains. Just need to get on the side of Battambang in Cambodia to try the Norry: a bamboo train!

The concept is as simple as ingenious: a bamboo platform three meters long and two meters wide, automotive-type axles mounted in tandem to allow vertical movement of the wheels and a gasoline engine the back of the boat to move the whole.

At full capacity, between 12 and 15 people, the train runs at about 15 km / h. With three or four passengers, one can reach higher peaks 30 km / h.

I had the chance to experiment with a railroad engineer (seriously, what were the odds that I try a bamboo train in the middle of Cambodia with a railroad engineer? .. . you've encountered a lot, you, the railway engineers?). The face he made when he saw the condition of the rails was worth at least a million dollars.

A giant slalom course at infinity. But no risk of derailment, according to the expert, since the train is not moving fast enough.

The expert also explained that the huge holes (the largest up to four to five inches long) at the junction of the rails and the fact that the ends of rails are not at all really does not make the adventure more dangerous. Did you just slap that ass pretty solid bamboo every ten seconds. Too bad, I think it would make a story more punchée :-(

Another factor making the particular adventure: there's a rail for the outward and return. In other words, trains going in opposite directions and which will meet at some point.

Again, no threat to the two trains going in opposite directions collide. Unless the drivers decide to make a contest of the bigger "cheers" to the world.

is where the genius behind the bamboo train makes sense. Within about 15 seconds, remove the platform of bamboo rails and axles to give way to another train. And reverse operation to get the train back on track. And

not need a 4 to 7 of rock, paper, scissors to determine which process will give way.

The rule is simple: the two drivers drop their pants and whoever has the lowest seed to move his train!

Hahaha! I heard you had ... no measuring seed!

The priority goes to the train on which there is a motorcycle. Then, priority goes to train with the most passengers. And what happens when two trains have the same number of passengers? Well, both drivers drop their pants and ...

In fact, I do not think there is any specific rule. In our case, the engineer, his girlfriend and I screamed Avont others to settle before they do. So we won.

Unfortunately, according to some rumors, Norry could disappear (too bad for many locals who use this means of transportation unique on a daily basis) if the government decides to go ahead with the improvement project rail service between Battambang and Phnom Penh.

And in the event that the Cambodian government was going ahead with this project, the Quebec government might buy the bamboo trains. This is probably the closest we'll ever TGV.

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Temples consumption


The Great Wall of China, Machu Picchu, the Pyramids of Egypt, Carrefour and complex Colossus Laval ... all structures magic born of human ingenuity that must be visited at least once in their life. List to which you must absolutely add the Temples of Angkor in Cambodia, a source of national pride for an entire people. A visit to the temples, is witnessing the spirituality creativity, extravagance and gigantism that has marked this empire.

If Angkor Wat was the only temple on the site, could be debated as to which building named above is the most spectacular. But with more than 200 temples and monuments scattered throughout the jungle in an area of 400 square kilometers, Angkor outperforms all its rivals.

Once you've seen the mysterious giant, smiling faces of Bayon, Banteay Srei carvings, jungle resume its place at Ta Prohn, you know immediately that you've just seen something surreal, incomparable , to none.

For all these reasons, the temples of Angkor became the lungs of the tourism industry in Cambodia, an industry that has the wind in its sails in the region of Siem Reap, which attracts thousands of daily visitors. And who says

tourist site says that people necessarily want to sell you business (really all kinds of stuff and business). And at Angkor, the people who want to sell you anything, they are many, many ... too many, too many.

Technically, the seller has no right to carry inside the temple site (although some seem to circumvent the rule rather easily, even before the police), but they are waiting for you farm outside the temple.

Whether visiting Angkor by bike, bus or tuktuk, beware. Once you set foot on their territory, the vultures are ready to attack.

The orchestra intones his preferred movement: "storm of cries endlessly crashing on tourists dazed." Sometimes a crescendo, in canon, in mid-major. But whatever the style, one thing remains, it smashes you eardrums (ears should stop you Siller four to five hours after your return to Siem Reap in the evening).

- Hello, sir, cold drink! You want a cold drink?
- Hello, two dollars for a guidebook.
- Hello, buy food from me.
- Hello, you need a t-shirt. I have many colors.
- Sir, you need a cold drink. Buy here.
- Sir, tablecloth, t-shirt, sarong, fridge magnet, necklass. Very good price for you.
- I have cold water, cold soft drinks. Look my menu. You hungry, I know!
- Sir, buy, buy, buy. Anything!
- Hello, me poor, poor, poor. Buy from me.

Grande, vieille, petite, enfant, jeune mère, adolescente, baryton, tenor, soprano Peu importe. Elles décochent toutes à un rythme effarant.

Quand vous encaissez une dizaine d'attaques à la minute, il est facile de perdre patience. But like the tuktuk drivers, the key is to take it with humor. After all, these people are just trying to earn a living and do not deserve to be treated as pygmies, and bazoutalènes cowards!

Humor, then. We must embark on the game, the Cambodians have a great sense of humor.

So for people who are thinking of visiting Cambodia and the temples of Angkor while enjoying the temples and people, here are some practical tips (Angkor Guide 101 ... weird, they do not sell on the site then), some responses that have either resulted in conversations unrelated to the product to sell, either completely blocked my interlocutors (because they thought kids, I must admit that their repartee is strong in your ... If your initial response is not convincing enough for them, they will replicate with an uppercut to the chin).

Q: Sir, you want to buy a guidebook?
A: Can I drink your guidebook? I do not want to read, I want to drink!
Editor's Note: Be careful not to be enough pie to answer this if you have a lady selling drinks in a radius of 30 meters (they also have very good ears).

Q: Sir, you want to Eat Something? Look my menu.
A: I do not want to eat rice or noodles. Purpose do you sell poutine? I would really like to eat a poutine right now!

Q: Sir, a sarong, a scarf, a necklass for your mother or your girlfriend?
A: My mom is dead. And I like men, I'm gay!
Ed: Response to half true in my case. And this one, we need a little play with a guy facing a bit offended.

Q: Sir, lot of stuff for you. Aerial postal cards?
A: I'm a professionnal photographer. I Took Those pictures!
Q: Guidebook?
A: I wrote all aussi The Guide about Angkor. I'm Indiana Jones. You Do not Recognize me Because I Do not Wear my hat today!
Q: T-shirt?
A: Im the boss of the t-shirt factory.
Q: Carvings?
A: I carve small replica of Angkor "during the weekend.

But as the saying goes, the best defense is attack. The best way to surprise your opponent is to attack first when he least expected, with the reply he waits the less.

- Lady, you buy from me. Cheap price for you my friend!

A home run for sure and possibly the best way to make friends at Angkor. As long as it is done with humor. Because nobody wins the game of selling frustrated because tourists frustrated.

Huge smiles, just like those found on the mysterious faces Bayon giants!