Battambang, Cambodia

Bouldering / climbing routes alert!

 

About 15km s.w. of Battambang town is a limestone outcrop - Phnom Sampeau - home of a wat, a pagoda or two, and the infamous killing cave used by killers to kill people in the killing time of the Khmer Rouge.

There is some decent bouldering / soloing near the pagoda (pic credit cambodiaadventures.blogspot.com - I owe you one guys)


Down to the right of the pagoda is a perfect little 10m face, on the r of the path as you ascend. On its lhs is a big drop, but on the rhs you can do a boulder traverse at 1m, a VS 5a (Unidentified Fruit-like Object, 10m) up pockets to a groove and capping overhang taken on the L, and a HS 4b (Run Chicken Run, 7m) up pockets to a slab, so take yer boots and chalk bag people.

FA's JHB yesterday.

Around here, you can also do fun stuff like ride the bamboo train, hire motor bikes, check out yet more Khmer ruins, and marvel at the scenery. Hot and dusty though it may be.