I didn’t fly today! This time we took a boat ride on the Ton Le Sap Lake from Siem Reap to Phnom Penh.
It took about 5 hours but included beautiful scenery accompanied by perfect weather. The locals waved to us from the shore.
There were submerged forests, floating villages, pontooned homes, and interesting countryside. Some of the Villages were the poorest I have seen. I did enjoy sitting in the sun with
my hair blowing in the wind, taking it all in. Russ and I also met some Russian and Japanese tourists whom we chatted with for a bit. The ride was fun and different, an Indian Jones-like adventure. I also got some reading in which I was stoked about. When we got off the boat it almost dumped me and many others into the river because it got side heavy, no bueno!
We had a great lunch and interesting conversations with our guides who joined us. After lunch we visited the King’s Palace of Cambodia. I wasn’t that impressed with this one, though there were some very interesting facts that went along with it. There are several buildings used for different things still to this day. The King was there when we were touring which was pretty neat; we didn’t see him though. We finished the night off with shopping and a balcony dinner at the famous FCC restaurant downtown which overlooks the river. Every restaurant has several lizards crawling around the walls, they are so cute!
It took about 5 hours but included beautiful scenery accompanied by perfect weather. The locals waved to us from the shore. There were submerged forests, floating villages, pontooned homes, and interesting countryside. Some of the Villages were the poorest I have seen. I did enjoy sitting in the sun with my hair blowing in the wind, taking it all in. Russ and I also met some Russian and Japanese tourists whom we chatted with for a bit. The ride was fun and different, an Indian Jones-like adventure. I also got some reading in which I was stoked about. When we got off the boat it almost dumped me and many others into the river because it got side heavy, no bueno! 
We had a great lunch and interesting conversations with our guides who joined us. After lunch we visited the King’s Palace of Cambodia. I wasn’t that impressed with this one, though there were some very interesting facts that went along with it. There are several buildings used for different things still to this day. The King was there when we were touring which was pretty neat; we didn’t see him though. We finished the night off with shopping and a balcony dinner at the famous FCC restaurant downtown which overlooks the river. Every restaurant has several lizards crawling around the walls, they are so cute!
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Doesn't look like a fun place to live... :(
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