The furniture in Cambodia is a special sort of uncomfortable, Everything is made of hard, heavy wood. Its carved very ornately, but its just so uncomfortable to sit on never mind relax on.
I think that to explore the uncomfortable and the politically incorrect is the job of the artist." - Jared Leto
[This furniture certainly was made by an artist]
When I arrived into Cambodia my back was pretty sore from lugging around bags and sitting on planes. I tried cycling for a few weeks, but the combination of all these things and hard furniture meant I ended up working from my bed for a week, hardly able to get out of the flat. Work bought be a comfy chair, I ditched the bike in favour of a moto and bought a second hand sofa from friends of a friend who were leaving Siem Reap.
Buying the sofa was the easy part, it was getting it from A to B that was a mission!
"Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere."- Albert Einstein
I got a team of us together to move the sofa, including a khmer friend who could translate where needed! We found a remork [flat bed trailer towed by a moto] down near Wat Damnak and he followed us to the place we were picking up the moto from.
Remork
The next saga involved getting the sofa over the balcony and into the remork. The remork driver was keen to throw it over in a ready or not fashion, which was unfortunate for the man who was attached to it by a rope.
'Safely' downstairs and ready for the journey.
These two like to travel in style!
Some footage of the crazy journey and the streets of Cambodia. Many shocked faces were staring at these two remork-sofa-surfers on the journey!
Once at mine we had to get the sofas up. Again the remork man was keen to get on and had pretty much thrown the sofa up before anyone was ready!
Luckily they were pretty light!
After a breather and a well earned breakfast we realised it was only about 10.30am and decided to head up to the Angkor park (temple area) for the rest of the day...
We stopped off at one of the barays and took some piccies and had a breather off the bikes.
Soon we were on our way again and the countryside of rice fields and temples was zipping by!
After riding around for a few hours we stopped off at the Butterfly House a lovely little treat at about $4 to get in.
This is what they should look like, my photos show they are hard to capture in their full glory!
Caterpillar.
"There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly." - R. Buckminster Fuller
They have boxes with the pupae in and some are even emerging - fascinating!
"Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you." - Nathaniel Hawthorne
"His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred." - Ernest Hemingway
"I dreamed I was a butterfly, flitting around in the sky; then I awoke. Now I wonder: Am I a man who dreamt of being a butterfly, or am I a butterfly dreaming that I am a man?" - Zhuangzi
Looked like a load of sand to me, but seemed to have some sugar solution on it.
Some lovely flowers too.
Making baby butterflies.
And some stick insects!
Soon we were on our way again, through temple ruins and statues...
Gates of Angkor Thom
We saw little modern pagodas and got these stunning views of Bayon temple...
I love the Angkor Park, such a nice place to spend time in nature surrounded by stunning temples too - so relaxing.
After a long day of exploring it was time to head home and chill on my new sofa!
"It is nice finding that place where you can just go and relax." - Moises Arias
*filming and some photos courtesy of Alida Kalejs
