You’ll see some fabulous sights in Cambodia as the world there is very different than the world here in Toronto. Kids go to school but 3 hours day, 6 days a week. Not because they don’t want to go to school but the Khmer Rouge time decimated the professional classes – teachers included – and there just aren’t enough teachers to go around. Teachers are also woefully paid. Kids head to school either in a morning shift or an afternoon one. On Thursdays, everyone heads to school in the morning and their chore that day is to clean their schools.
3) G films us heading up river
I also believe that children in Cambodia learn to ride a bike long before they ever learn to walk.


9) G prepares for a fish massage of his feet; 10) afterward deep-fried snakes anyone?


11 & 12) inside and outside the main market

16) heading to town with a load of wood
18) wow… this little – dead – piggy is going to market!
19) a naga at Ta Prohm; 20) I couldn’t resist shooting the Asian tourists in a PPA pose
22) Ta Prohm; 23) the site is rampant with young kids who ought to be in school but are panhandling instead
24) these two were chased off by temple guards – note they even had a slingshot (as did the temple guard I might add); 25) perhaps he’s looking for his future?
26) these trees have completely overrun Ta Prohm; 27) Blee with her temple assistant
28) very surreal and beautiful I thought with the morning mist rising
29) we stopped at the “Bamboo Rice Village’ heading back to town (I ate but it later caught up with me); 30) bamboo rice options for kilometers
31) see what happens when you eat too much bamboo rice made out in the villages!
32) heading into Preah Ko ; 33) Blee gets up close
36) wandering the backstreets of Siem Reap; 37) tuk tuk break break
39) fisher nets on Tonle Sap lakeshore; 40) our boatman brings us ashore
41 & 42) building a new long boat on the shore of Tonle Sap Lake
43 & 44) life along the shore of Tonle Sap Lake
45) boats head down to Phnon Krom; 46) as we head up to Chong Khneas
47) out on the lake at Chong Khneas
48) almost to the ‘floating village’; 49) fishermen free the fish from the nets
50) the floating village with the floating temple in the distance
51) the crocodiles get fed
52) young mothers whose husbands were killed during the wars ply the waters with their children hoping to make a dollar or two; 53) and young boys do the same
54) a typical boat; 55) relaxing along the shore
57) volleyball is hot even here
58) more boats heading back to Phnom Krom; 59) and more boatmaking
61) kids having fun along the shore
That is a section of the world I know very little about. Thanks for the educational trip! I hope you survived. Lara Croft always does.
I flew Silk Air too! How do you like the muggy weather?