After breakfast we had a guided walk of Angkor Ban. Loved watching the boys fishing next to the boat.The village is one of the few traditional villages that survived the Khmer Rouge regime.
The main street up from the boat was lined with the symbols for the lunar years
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Nicknamed the Lucky Village, we literally walked up and down streets, waving to locals and even being invited into one lady's home which was a traditional stilted house.
The temple was a big affair and constant loud speaker blessings were heard. Mind you we also heard the music blaring from them for an hour this morning at 5am!
The primary school was a large area and lots of kids were waving to us from inside their classrooms. They have recently started a lunch programme to make sure that they children have at least one good meal a day as many were malnourished and under developed.
It was really humid so nice to get back on the boat.
photos are all over the place due to internet continuing to drop out and then place them wherever, but you can see the haves from the have-nots. Many stilted houses over 100 years old. Loved that many of the steps up to the house are in better condition than the actual houses!
One lady is farming grasshoppers to see. She gets about $5 US for every kilo.
Stupas were pretty impressive.
They really like their Buddhas.
Inside the stilted house the floor is bamboo slats and has an outside kitchen. There us a fairly new outside bathroom with flushing toilet but not all the houses have this yet.
Cambodian style service station consists of cool drink bottles filled with petrol.
The locals were very friendly and clearly want more visitors.
Lunch onboard as we dock at Kampong Cham. We then have a tuk tuk ride through the agricultural island of Koh Pen.
Just before dinner we watched the dragon boat practice which meant lots of thr boats sailed past us. No idea how many people in some of the boats.
Then the fireworks started and went on while we were having dinner. They were really spectacular but no photos of the night fireworks. The boats that were lit up were very colourful too.
We were reintroduced to all our ship staff and crew as this is our last night onboard the ship. Dinner was extra good too, with my first but of steak for the whole trip so far.
Apologies again for photos all over the shop but shops make for an interesting read if you can work out what was meant to go with what!
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