My favourite new experience in Cambodia and Vietnam was seeing how many people can fit on a moto (motorbike).

In that part of the world, people don’t really ride motorbikes, rather a local kind of scooter or “step-through”. Katie says there’s no age limit to riding them in Cambodia, as long as your feet reach the footrest.

And yes, the whole family will fit on a moto. Very usual to see babies and children sitting in front holding the handlebars. i love it. In Vietnam the children wear helmets .. in Cambodia not.

Traffic here is something else entirely. The one rule appears to be “Give way to bigger vehicles”. Lauli said it was like schools of fish in the sea; you swim with the group, go with the flow.

So far i have seen on the back of a moto:

• a huge live pig with its trotters bound
• whole cooked dead pigs (2 or 3)
• twenty live roosters, tied by their feet
• panes of glass, held vertical
• a live goat bleating pitifully as its enormous scrotum swung in our car window.

Desperately seeking comments:
Please share your “back of a moto” experience.