Day Adventure Tour to Silk Island With Moto Girl Tour
Girl power fuels new motorbike tours
(26 Nov 2016) LEADIN:
Girl power is driving a new tourism business in Cambodia's capital.
An all-female tour company is offering customised motorcycle tours of Phnom Penh aiming to ease the gender imbalance of the male-dominated moto-taxi industry.
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Standing tall against gender stereotypes.
These are the Motogirls - an all-female company offering guided moped tours in and around the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh.
With their bright red T-shirts and motorised scooters, the MotogirlTour guides stand out in traffic.
MotogirlTour launched last December and claims to be the first of it's kind in this socially conservative country where gender roles are often clearly defined and the lines are rarely crossed.
Driving people around on motorbikes for pay has long been a male-only preserve in Cambodia, with only a handful of women doing the job in the whole country.
MotogirlTour was set up by 25-year-old university student Chea Renou, who quit her desk job as an accountant to start the business.
She says she spotted a hole in the moto-tour market for women travelling alone.
We think there are many tourists - mainly women, who travel alone and who are concerned about their safety when they travel to new or unfamiliar countries or places, says Chea.
It can be a worry for them when they don't know the place or anybody living there. If a person like that goes with us and chooses a woman to take her around, she will feel not afraid anymore.
Crossing the gender barrier was not easy for drivers like Horm Nich, who says her parents were strongly opposed to the idea at first.
When I said I wanted to become a female moto-driver my parents reacted badly and they would not allow me to join the group, says Horm.
I asked them why and they said it was because it was not safe and that in Cambodia, when girls work outside, for example as a moto driver, it's easy for the men to touch them or to cheat them. They said it was not good because firstly it's against our traditions and secondly, because we are 'good' girls, we should not allow men an opportunity to touch us.
Despite their parents' reservations, the women pushed ahead and today they operate a small but successful business employing six women part-time, all university students or young professionals.
Most of the company's booking come through their website or through word of mouth.
American tourist Whitney Koelling heard about MotogirlTour from a fellow student at a women's empowerment course in Goa, India.
She says she chose the all-female company because she was nervous about using an unknown male moto-driver picked up on the street.
I think it's much safer to travel with a group of women, says Koelling.
I don't really feel comfortable coming up to someone on the street and asking them to take me to far away places, so it was really nice to be with someone I can trust and someone who was more reliable I guess. And also someone who speaks English too, that was very helpful so, I got to hear more about Phnom Penh that way.
MotogirlTour offers five different tour options, stopping off at attractions such as the Independence Monument, the National Museum and markets including here at the famous Central Market.
The guides share their lives and lifestyles with the customers, but the tours don't yet incorporate much historical information.
In here they have a lot of souvenirs, for tourists to come here to buy the souvenirs for their family, says Chea to her customer.
And they have a lot of jewellery and you can have breakfast or lunch in here. And it is the best place for locals and tourists to come to shopping, yeah, you must be to like to shopping here, they've got many things you want, yeah.
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In Cambodia's Phnom Penh's No 1 ladies taxi scooter agency
In Cambodia's capital, motorbike taxis are everywhere - but it's extremely rare to see women drivers transporting tourists. Those who do are judged harshly. Katya Cengel meets the young entrepreneur trying to change that.
When they show up at a Phnom Penh hotel in their tight red T-shirts and skinny jeans, people tend to get the wrong idea about Renou Chea and her fellow Moto Girl Tour guides.
They think we're not 'good girls', says Renou, a slight 26-year-old with long dark hair. They think we're 'bad girls'.
It is an important distinction to make in Cambodia, where women who associate with foreigners are often assumed to be bad girls - or women who work in the sex trade.
Sometimes they think that when we hang out with the men, it's just like for sex or something like that, adds her sister, Raksmey Chea, 23.
The Moto Girl Tour website doesn't help, offering motorbike tours of Cambodia's capital by young and beautiful lady drivers.
Because they are all young and beautiful, Renou doesn't understand why advertising this might seem strange.
What is strange, at least in this South East Asian country, is women driving tourists. It just isn't done, says Siv Cheng, owner of Phnom Penh-based CS Travel.
Mostly, you see, all moto (taxi) drivers are male, says Cheng.Many women drive the little Vespa scooters and Hyundai motorbikes that zip around the city - everyone does - but they don't usually carry tourists.
Renou got the idea after an aunt told her about schoolgirls offering a moto taxi service in Thailand.
To make sure they kept their reputations safe, the women established a rule - no holding on to the guide
Having ridden a motorbike since high school, and having studied English in college, Renou figured showing tourists around her city would be a fun way to earn money. Having also studied accounting, she no doubt saw a good business opportunity as well. In 2015 almost five million tourists travelled to Cambodia, according to the Cambodian Ministry of Tourism.
Renou recruited her younger sister and Sreynich Horm, 22 - both as petite and pretty as Renou - and occasionally a fourth woman to be Moto Girl Tour guides.
But before they took their first tourists on board their bikes in early 2016, they had to convince their families that they would be safe.
Horm's father worried that a foreigner riding behind her could touch her and do other things to her - things good virgin girls should not have done to them.
To make sure they kept their reputations safe, the women established a rule - no holding on to the guide, hold the handlebar on the seat behind you instead.
When they have night tours and tours outside the city they team up. Still, friends and family often worry about the women carrying around large foreigners.
At 4ft 9in (1.45m) and 6st 5lb (40kg), Renou is the tall Moto Girl. Her Vespa is more than twice her weight, but she gets upset when people think she can't handle it or heavy loads.
For years she has been helping her father with his grocery store by making deliveries on her Vespa. Plus, as a woman, she believes she is actually a safer driver, something Hong Ly, guest relations' manager at Mito Hotel agrees with.Tourists like girls who drive slow, not weave in and out of traffic, said Ly, who keeps a stack of Moto Girl Tour brochures on her desk.
The Moto Girls may be on to something. In early 2016 Vespa Adventures motorbike tour-company opened a branch in Phnom Penh and began hiring both male and female drivers, says Alex Meldrum, manager of the Phnom Penh branch.An American man founded the original Vespa Adventures in Vietnam. But a Cambodian woman who plans to hire mainly female drivers in the group's other Cambodian location of Siem Reap runs Cambodian Vespa Adventures.
Chanel Sinclair, a 31-year-old lawyer from Australia, was both thrilled and comforted to find female tour guides when travelling solo in Phnom Penh for the first time in spring 2016.
She was so pleased with the attentive service she received from the Moto Girls, including regular cold water deliveries and help with bartering, that she went on three tours with the group.
Renou would like to see more women travellers like Sinclair, but so far the majority of the company's 50 or so customers have been male.
Scottish photographer Ross Kennedy, 44, took a custom tour with the Moto Girls in March 2016. To find more authentic scenes for Kennedy to shoot, Horm went to a region outside the city where her father has family and asked locals' advice.
Kennedy's tour began with crashing a wedding in the morning and ended with a Buddhist blessing ceremony in the afternoon. Those are the memories that make a trip special, Kennedy wrote in an email.
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Cambodia Motorbike Ride - Phnom Penh Center to the Airport
The ride took about 30 minutes, mainly due to the slow riding of my motorbike taxi driver. Think I'll take a tuk tuk/taxi next time as the motorbike wasn't very safe as you can see by the chaotic roads. Also, I was very dusty and sweaty by the time we arrived at the airport which is not fun!
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Cambodia Travel - Silk Island Resort - Love Plantation Koh Oknha Tey
It's last Saturday plan. We traveled from Phnom Penh city to Silk Island Resort or Love Plantation resort at Koh Oknha Tey. The traffic in Phnom Penh is busy as usual as it's Saturday. I was so busy and can't go. My wife help me record this video of the trip. She's not good with the camera movement and lots of shaky. You might be a little dizzy when seeing this video but it's good to share a trip to this location. It's a beautiful island, quiet, peaceful homes and people. They make a living by farm land growing corn, pumpkin, cucumber, other vegetables and fishing. There is a resort on the island called Love Plantation or Silk Island resort, where they show the tourists of how to make silk, scarves, nice resort serving foods, and close to the river with fresh air. We need to cross the river by ferry to this island. Let's enjoy the video.
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Girl power fuels new motorbike tours
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Girl power is driving a new tourism business in Cambodia's capital.
An all-female tour company is offering customised motorcycle tours of Phnom Penh aiming to ease the gender imbalance of the male-dominated moto-taxi industry.
STORY-LINE:
Standing tall against gender stereotypes.
These are the Motogirls - an all-female company offering guided moped tours in and around the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh.
With their bright red T-shirts and motorised scooters, the MotogirlTour guides stand out in traffic.
MotogirlTour launched last December and claims to be the first of it's kind in this socially conservative country where gender roles are often clearly defined and the lines are rarely crossed.
Driving people around on motorbikes for pay has long been a male-only preserve in Cambodia, with only a handful of women doing the job in the whole country.
MotogirlTour was set up by 25-year-old university student Chea Renou, who quit her desk job as an accountant to start the business.
She says she spotted a hole in the moto-tour market for women travelling alone.
We think there are many tourists - mainly women, who travel alone and who are concerned about their safety when they travel to new or unfamiliar countries or places, says Chea.
It can be a worry for them when they don't know the place or anybody living there. If a person like that goes with us and chooses a woman to take her around, she will feel not afraid anymore.
Crossing the gender barrier was not easy for drivers like Horm Nich, who says her parents were strongly opposed to the idea at first.
When I said I wanted to become a female moto-driver my parents reacted badly and they would not allow me to join the group, says Horm.
I asked them why and they said it was because it was not safe and that in Cambodia, when girls work outside, for example as a moto driver, it's easy for the men to touch them or to cheat them. They said it was not good because firstly it's against our traditions and secondly, because we are 'good' girls, we should not allow men an opportunity to touch us.
Despite their parents' reservations, the women pushed ahead and today they operate a small but successful business employing six women part-time, all university students or young professionals.
Most of the company's booking come through their website or through word of mouth.
American tourist Whitney Koelling heard about MotogirlTour from a fellow student at a women's empowerment course in Goa, India.
She says she chose the all-female company because she was nervous about using an unknown male moto-driver picked up on the street.
I think it's much safer to travel with a group of women, says Koelling.
I don't really feel comfortable coming up to someone on the street and asking them to take me to far away places, so it was really nice to be with someone I can trust and someone who was more reliable I guess. And also someone who speaks English too, that was very helpful so, I got to hear more about Phnom Penh that way.
MotogirlTour offers five different tour options, stopping off at attractions such as the Independence Monument, the National Museum and markets including here at the famous Central Market.
The guides share their lives and lifestyles with the customers, but the tours don't yet incorporate much historical information.
In here they have a lot of souvenirs, for tourists to come here to buy the souvenirs for their family, says Chea to her customer.
Whitney Koelling, on her first visit to Cambodia, says that paying a little more for a female guide was definitely worth the price.
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