For the past two months or so, Kinyei has been developing a social enterprise to help bring in funding for Kinyei’s projects. The enterprise, called SoksaBike (a play on the traditional Khmer greeting of ‘Soksabai’ which roughly translates to ‘Are you happy and healthy?’ or, more prosaically, ‘How are you?’) is an educational bicycle tour of the beautiful Battambang countryside. Along a shaded route lined with banana palms, fruit orchards, and traditional wooden houses, the tour stops at several family-run cottage industries, such as rice paper, fish paste (prohoc), Khmer noodles, and rice wine. At each stop, the tourists are shown the traditional method of production, and have the opportunity to ask questions and sample the products.
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SoksaBike sounds like a great idea…it’s a pity I left three months to early to try it out.
Does the trip portfolio also include a “Sarah’s lazy day tour” (a relaxed 100+ km round trip on occasionally paved roads that should be taken on a hot April day with >10 kg of luggage for maximum authenticity)? ;)
The tour was so interesting. The guides were quite well-versed, eager, and enthusiastic. I learned all about how rice paper is made, how rice goop is pressed to make noodles, how mushrooms are grown, and more. I even tasted prahok! and saw huge vats of the fermenting fish paste.
Hands down the best activity to try in Battambang!