TRAVEL DIARY- BAMBOO TRAIN - 'RUSTIC RURAL RECREATION' ,O DAMBONG VILLAGE, BATTAMBANG , CAMBODIA
'Impress people with your soul! not the things you have !" . Of course! They are poor! but will impress you with something ". A rural Cambodian travel reflects this. Our driver blew a long horn – may be a wake up call or a signal. That sleepy village 'O Dambong' woke up to the situation, to host their guests, to treat them with their own amusement, sell their merchandise and the make a business out of it . Travelling in a’ Bamboo train’ was in my itinerary, but I ignored it as yet another train safari ; As anyone’s knowledge, train literally means “a number of vehicles or a group of animals moving in a designated line” but Little did I realize, we'll be travelling on a mono Railway trolley on an official but semi abandoned railway track. It was an old meter gauge track laid by the French from Phnom Penh to the Thai Border, and it passes thru this remote village near Battambang. I understood on enquiry that ,only two tra
