The next day the dutch, carmen and braum and i got a canoe to take us on a little tour around the lake. it was super touristy - like you visit all these places where they show you how they are making traditional stuff by hand, blacksmiths, weaving, etc. etc. but that is what i had expected, so i was prepared. we did get to observe life on the lake though - there is no shoreline here, so the villages, the houses, even the monasteries and pagodas are built on stilts in the marshland, and people use canoes to get around, even just to visit a neighbor! i mostly just liked riding around in the boat, through floating gardens, watching ppl row with just one leg (it's strange here, hard to explain!). the dutch had also
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