Kompong Phhluk

just another day in paradise, really I am not sure I want to leave Siem Reap! The folks at the Ivy said I could clean the rooms and get tourists to say and that would pay for my room! So tempted!!

The tuk tuk ride today should have been a four wheeler ride! It was funny, we even had to dig the tuk tuk out of a sand pit on the road to the village!

So after we drove as far as we could, the road basically ends in the flood plains of the Tonle Sap during the raining season...we hired a boat to take us to the village. It is interesting to be sure. During the dry season the houses are about 8-10 meters above the dry ground and you will see from the pictures that the area really floods! This being the end of the wet season, the Tonle Sap will start to reverse course and begin flowing into the Mekong river once again...it happens every year and makes the Tonle Sap a very different and important lake for the region. It is actually the largest fresh water lake in all of Asia....

Everyone we came across was very happy and very friendly. The kids would wave and shout 'hello' and then 'goodbye' as we passed their houses. It was amazing to see children as young as 3 paddling a canoe around with no one else on the boat. I guess that is not really too surprising considering if they fall down the stairs in the rainy season, they land in the water....any way it was a wonderful way to spend the day...

Tomorrow we are really off to the city....we still have not worked out what we will do once we get to Phnom Penn nor how long we will stay in the city...we only have to be at the airport on Friday evening to catch our flight to Hong Kong. We are looking forward to seeing Sophea, wish you were here too Craig!...

For today's lesson, we have useful phrases:

Not today, tomorrow
I have a tuk tuk
Angkor large bottle please
Bananna shake please
Where you from (honestly the kids can tell you everything you would want to know about Canada and the US for that matter. BTW they like Obama)

Hope all is well!
J

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