Dr. Frazier Rides Cambodia Photo Gallery

Motorcycle USA’s international travel editor takes rolls through the jungles of Cambodia in his latest motorcycle adventure touring travel feature. Check out the full story in Dr. Frazier Rides Cambodia.

Golden Boat Temple on the Mekong River reflected some of the color of the country.

Motorcycle helmets were required for motorcyclists, and passengers, but locals often chanced a seldom issued ticket in lieu of wearing the hot head gear.

Small displacement motorcycles were the work horses of Cambodia, here used like a tractor to pull a wagon.

A Cambodian version of a motorcycle-bus.

A combination motorcycle-bus-trailer was carrying goods and people to the market.

The broken part pictured here was the wagon, not the 110 cc motorcycle pulling the wagon.

Looking hard enough found a motorcycle carrying the load of bamboo.

This motorcycle was hauling goods for sale from the country, where they were handmade, to the stores in the city.

The motorcycle here served as the household moving van.

This set-up was not a pannier and aluminum top box combination for adventure travel.

A motorcycle taxi, also called a tuk-tuk, in Phnom Penh, was waiting for passengers.

This tuk-tuk owner collected a few extra dollars each month with the ad on the back to use a specific brand of condoms.

An IV drip fed water onto the engine cylinder to cool it in the hot Cambodian temperatures, a quite common accessory.

Big motorcycles, like this BMW, were seen in Cambodia, but needed to get back to neighboring Thailand for everything from tires to service.

A Honda Africa Twin could be found for sale in Cambodia, but its origin was very gray.

When a large displacement motorcycle stopped it always attracted a crowd because they were seldom seen in Cambodia.

A motorcycle with a sidecar was seen in Phnom Penh.

This rental Honda 250 cc Baja was a common rental option. It was about twice as large as the average motorcycle in Cambodia.

This Norton Commando was ridden into Cambodia from Thailand, twice.

I saw this Norton University after seeing the earlier Norton motorcycle and wondered if they taught local mechanics how to keep Norton motorcycles alive while in Cambodia. My Norton riding acquaintance did not think my wondering was funny.

This was a local tire repair shop, quite common to be found operating on streets and sidewalks. Often a flat tire would be patched without removing the wheel from the motorcycle, one advantage of having a small motorcycle.

A local motorcycle shop was selling Chinese imports, one of the more common models.

No center stand or lift for an oil change? No problems for a Cambodia motorcycle mechanic, just flop the motorcycle on its side, after draining the gas and removing the battery.

Another motorcycle sales and repair shop, but if a big bike needed repair weeks were often needed for parts to be imported.

Upscale hotels were available to the tourists willing to part with the big dollars.

There were several motorcycle tour operators for tourists wanting to ride in a group with local guides, one that even specialized in Harley-Davidson tours, and others, like this group, in off-road adventure packages.

$25.00 would get a clean room near a beach with parking for the motorcycle in the hotel lobby for security for the night.

A short time hotel, like this one, rented rooms for 1-2 hours, or the night, but nights could be noisy from the constant changing of sheets and customers.

Off the paved road in the dry season was not only hot, but dusty. More of the roads in Cambodia are unpaved than paved.

It was obvious a car and motorcycle had crashed here. It was not uncommon to see these paintings on the road which were done by the police to depict the accident. I was told the paint was used sparingly, for 'death' accidents only.

One the better roads found traffic sparse and traveling at sedate speeds. 70 mph was excessive due to numerous animals wandering, cross traffic, pot holes and people using the pavement for everything from food stalls to repair shops.

Some rivers still used ferries, but were slowly being replaced by bridges. This ferry was free for people and motorcycles.

A ferry boat, carrying people and small motorcycles was soon to be out of work the bridge being constructed in the background was completed.

Some of the beaches of Cambodia were the most desolate and pristine in Southeast Asia.

Floating homes on rivers and lakes enjoyed the benefit of running water, 365/24/7, but during the monsoon season rose and fell as much as ten feet.

Two pigs were in the basket on the back of this motorcycle. It was a 'bad joss' day of riding motorcycle for the pigs that day because they were headed to the local market.

The least expensive and slowest way to get around the capital of Cambodia was by cyclo, here a broken one and the owner being carried to a repair shop.

Food pictured here was fried chicken and spider, lunch at a roadside stop restaurant.

A typical restaurant was open air and on the street. Soup, noodles, rice and vegetables mixed with various forms of meat or fish were the main fare. Once I unknowingly ate dog.

Globalization was creeping into Cambodia, typified here by a Kentucky Fried Chicken fast food restaurant opened in 2009. Pizza Hut was not far behind.