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"I now spend about 3-4 hours in the tuk-tuk each day..."
OMG, so that's like 45-minutes or 1 hour to your daughters' school...? Then you go back home, and then repeat the round-trip each afternoon? That is brutal, to be on-the-road 3 or 4 hours each day, especially via tuk-tuk or motorbike. 😳 Does the trip take so long because of the distance, due to the top-speed of the tuk-tuk, or a little of both? What is the top-speed of the tuk-tuk on a good road, anyway...?
I have actually been wondering about distances there in Cambodia. Whenever I read blogs about any other part of the world, I always enjoy trying to "follow along" on a map. (I love maps!)
You've mentioned PRÂMAÔY a few times, and that was easy to find on the map. You & Srey-Pov have both mentioned the girls going to school in THMOR DA, which I found to be a little southeast of PRÂMAÔY, near the border with Thailand. But it took a very long time (and looking at several different maps!) to find a place called STEUNG KACH, which appears to be a little north of the town of KRONG PAILIN. However, that STEUNG KACH appears to be about a 3.5-hour drive from THMOR DA. So, maybe there's two places named STEUNG KACH or two places named THMOR DA...? Kinda like how every state in the US has a city named "Greenville?" 😂 So, I am a still a little lost as to where things are over there and how far it is between places. You can see the places I found on the following map, and maybe tell me where I have made a mistake!
You answered your question before I could get to it, haha. I once searched Steung Kach via English letters, and also got nothing from this area. Google Maps requires you to request a listing, and that's beyond the computer know-how of folks around here. I don't even think there is a single guesthouse or hotel registered on Booking.com or any of the major sites, even in the little Thmor Da town near the border. My wife was able to find a listing for the military base here searching with Khmer letters, but otherwise we'll probably be the first listing here.
Now that you're familiar with the map, we chose Pramaoy to start because it was the last town with a proper market and options to study English, albeit a bit simple. We wanted to buy land in this part of the country, and we intended to explore to the north, south, east, and west of Pramaoy on the weekends.
We had already traveled south and found the land was too expensive and tourism already a bit normal in the area. To the east were no mountains, to the north was a really poor quality road, but beautiful land. We were left with heading west on Highway 55 from Pramaoy to the Thai border, all the way scoping for little pieces of land, and believe or not this was the most expensive area, especially Thmor Da on the border. We lucked out by stopping in this village and asking around, we were just about to give up and leave Pramaoy for another basecamp somewhere else in the country.
Oh, by the way, "Steung" means small river or creek, and "Kach" means well, had to ask my wife, and the way she explained it to me in Khmer makes me think it's like the English word "snap," but not snap your fingers, snap like "snap a twig." So, although I've never thought about how to translate the name to English, I guess we can call this place "Snap(ped) Creek." 🤔
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