Mekong River Border Crossing

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Mekong River Trip

So we decided to cross into Cambodia by taking a 2 day tour up the Mekong river. It was lots of fun. Day 1 included: floating market (although we arrived after the action), coconut candy making (zeroing in on your fillings and doing their best to remove them! - we still have ours at the bottom of our bag), seeing how rice paper is made and then lunch at a local restuarant before arriving at the border town Can Tho.

Day 2: 5am wake up call and a knock at the door to a grumpy Tory (1hr too early!), a row boat out to the floating villages and fish farms (too many tourists nearly sank one house!), visit to a very touristy Champa village with a local old man posing in the window for photos and then a 3hr boat ride up to the border crossing. Border crossing was simple (guards were having lunch and drinking Jack Daniels) and then off we went on a 4hr mini bus ride on some pretty bad roads to Phnom Penh.

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Photos

Will and Snake
"Play it cool Airey ...."

Rice paper making
Nothing goes to waste - they even used the rice husks for the fire

Ben with snake wine
He wasn't smiling for long!

Lunch?
A vat of fish being stired up

Comments

[Liz and Chris]

Nice scarf
We like the snake scarf, don't think it will catch on though, might be a bit too snug for comfort.