On the boat

Battambang

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February 3rd 2007
Our six hour boat trip ended up being ten hours, not counting over an hour picking up people and getting to the water. The first couple hours were quite cold crossing the Tonle Sap lake, who would have thought of bringing windbreakers to Cambodia? not us. After crossing the lake we travelled up river the first part of which was very nice floating fishing villages and mangrove forest. We actually s ... read more

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Most Cambodians consider themselves to be Khmers, whose Angkor Empire extended over much of Southeast Asia and reached its zenith between the 10th and 13th centuries. Subsequently, attacks by the Thai and Cham (from present-day Vietnam) weakened the ... ... read more