Friends Of Nyumbani

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Doug Walker, Pete Stuart, Andy Stirling, Roddy James and Jamie Pert of Montrose have completed a 500km bicycling journey from Vietnam to Cambodia to benefit charities, including Nyumbani.

The Montrose group joined 30 fellow cyclists in London and travelled out to Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia then on to Ho Chi Minh City in South Vietnam.

From there they travelled through roads full of anything that moved, ranging from scooters, bikes, people, oxen and chickens!

They crossed over the border and into Cambodia crossing the Mekong River and passing through many rubber plantations, paddy fields, villages and temples.

Although people appeared to lead a subsistence life style, living hand to mouth, they appeared to be very happy and it was very humbling to be treated like celebrities by all the locals who cheered and greeted the team at every point along the way.

The group completed the trek at Siem Reap, the old Capital of Cambodia and home to Angkor Wat an area of Temples which are justifiably regarded as one of the wonders of the world.

The trip was full of laughter, plenty of friendly rivalry with fellow English trekkers (especially when the Montrose lads donned kilts for the final few kilometres of the cycle)