This may be a Two-Blog Day, depends upon the afternoon tour and the Internet reception.
Great sleep, up at 6:00 and down to lounge for two coffee and then soon enough, fruit for breakfast. Then, as boat had pulled in beside the bank we hiked up and had tour of a Buddhist community, then into a village that had escaped the Khmer Rouge burning in the '70's.
I am a bit confused but believe the village and houses we visited are on the upper end of housing in Cambodia. On the bus ride here we certainly saw some poorer houses then the ones visited today.
This was written at 11:00 am after coming back on board after our walk about...
At The Captain's Dinner last night, we met our Captain. Vietnamese: looks like right out of 'Terry and The Pirates', a comic book hero about 1949 about pirates in the South China Sea. Plus our trip-long guide, Tung.
The corridor on our deck, polished hardwood.
Up the bank of the river at 8:30 for a 1 1/2 hour walk around the temple area and a village.
Drying corn, for use or sale.
Gramma stays and looks after grand kids while the younger people work in the fields or do other farm work. These are farmers.
Very young baby, mittens on to prevent scratching.
Same Mom, on the way out.
Another happy gramma.
Peanuts stashed for animal feed, usually a Brahma cow.
Stashed away, a lovely ox-cart.
That lady is 84. This area was not over-run by the Khmer Rouge in the 70's.
Part of our little group hovering under a home.
Family unit, husking the dried corn. They will all live in one house.
Three generations.
Often the farm kids have a few years at monk-hood, to get an education and take a burden off the family.
Fellette was born in the Year of The Snake.
Back down to the ship, the steps were carved into the river bank.
Winnipeg girl and Fellette after getting back from the morning walk.
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