Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
Dalai Lama
Happiness is an active pursuit and the outcome of our choices and actions.
Paul Ensley & Kisa van den Berg – Amsterdam, The Netherlands, participated in LOTOS RALLYE 2024.
Team “Ensleyvandenberg” and teams from Germany and Switzerland traveled 1600km in 14 days in their ” resto-mod ” Jeep at a maximum speed of 80 km/h. They were accompanied by a team of three local mechanics who rebuilt bridges, restored roads, and fixed broken jeeps on the spot. True heroes who always kept big smiles, no matter how tough the task was.
It’s an adventure of a lifetime.
The spirit of the locals humbled us like the monks we spoke to along the way in their pagodas. The unmatched hospitality of locals in hotels, restaurants, and family houses for several lunches.
It surely makes a lasting impression.
– Paul & Kisa
Kisa & Paul enjoying their ultimate roadtrip
The landscape of Cambodia boasts lush green rice fields, mountains, forests, waterfalls, crater lakes, and big rivers. Despite recent economic growth, it is still classified as a developing country.
The Cambodian genocide by the Khmer Rouge, which took place from 1975 to 1979, resulting in the death of 2 million Cambodian citizens, is still tangible.
This is heartfelt, as the country is blessed with a population of young Khmer people with an unbreakable spirit and infectious optimism who predominantly practise Buddhism.
