We're having camera trouble again so apologies for lack of photos. Since leaving Saigon we've been pretty busy taking a three day trip along the Mekong Delta and into Cambodia.
The Mekong trip was really interesting. We got to see a floating market where fruit & vegetable sellers from all over the Mekong region come to sell their produce wholesale. Each seller ties an example of what they are selling high up on a wooden post on their boat for the buyers to see & all the transactions are done on the water.
As we enter Cambodia we notice the landscape changing. It's a lot more rural & less developed than Vietnam. The waterside views change from metal shacks & adverts for Western products to bamboo shacks, people grazing water buffalo & lots of children in boats & on the shore running to wave at us & say hello.
Phnom Penh is really lively & interesting. Our trip to the killing fields & Tuol Sleung prison were pretty shocking & difficult but very informative & interesting. We enjoyed visiting the King's Palace & Silver Pagoda & shopping at the Russian market too. Also inexplicably managed to fine somewhere to have a pot of English tea & a scone with jam! (Have been eating Khmer food too, honestly)
Our six hour bus journey from Phnom Penh to Siem Reap is stuffy & cramped but made much more enjoyable by the beautiful deep pink flowers growing out of even the shallowest bodies of water all around. On arrival we even manage to find a hotel with a pool & free Internet access.
Today we visited Angkor Wat & some of the other amazing temple buildings of Angkor. Tomorrow, Paul is going to endeavor to get me up in time to watch the sunrise over Angkor Wat.
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The killing fields sound horrific
but some thing that we must not foget happerned
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