MissTtravels

Day 5

A day of villages.

After breakfast we set off for a fishing village on the lake.

We passed through a number of villages on the way. We stopped at a local market and had a look around. Sureth our tour leader is very good at explaining things and answering questions.

All kinds of weird and wonderful things….

We travelled to the village of Kompong Pluck which is built on stilts because of the flooding in the wet season.

We boarded a boat and headed off into the lake, which is 150km long and 32km wide at this time of year. All sorts of fishing, shrimping and crabbing go on here.

Cambodia is still a very agrarian society, and fish is an important source of protein.

We went back to the city in the early afternoon and amused ourselves by shopping in the Made in Cambodia Market. I am trying to buy locally handmade things wherever I go, as usual. So far I have bought 2 watercolours and 2 screenprints. Really loving the art here.

Much damage done.

Later in the afternoon, we went out to a farming village nearby. We sat in a field in a veggie garden, and tried all different kinds of Cambodian snack foods made by the lady on the farm. Sureth talked to us about how rice is grown and about how they catch and eat the frogs, crabs, snakes and rats that live in the rice fields! Fortunately they were not on the menu today.

We were meant to be watching the sunset but did not really see it until we were driving back into Siem Reap.

We had a lovely last dinner together as a group. We are off to Vietnam tomorrow, and will be on different tours.