Wednesday morning we took it easy and booked Rambo 2 and his Tuk Tuk for the afternoon and evening. While we were on our way to the floating village which was about a 40 minute drive out of Siem Reap, we noticed, the houses quite run down and it looked very dirty. There were rice fields everywhere. Cows, dogs, chickens and children running around everywhere, cows pulling loaded carts sharing the road with bikes pulling carts, motos pulling carts, Tuk Tuks, vehicles and anything else you could imagine. We got to the lake and loaded into a wooden boat. Two young lads took us, one was the captain and the other not sure, other than to tell us all about how sad his life was. The main motive, we think, was to get us to buy rice from one of the stores out there for the school children. There were no other boats at the store or the school so we think that it was a scam of some sort. We didn't fall for it.
The people looked very poor in this floating village on the lake. The houses were run down and they used wooden boats, some with small Honda motors powering them and others just rowing their boat. The water was as brown as your shoe, I can only imagine what might be in it.
In the rainy season, we were told the lake could rise 5 m. Thought that was a lot but along the. Way back we saw markers which looked like the waterhad been up at least halfway. Very sad to see all the poverty here, we do feel sorry for these people.
Supper was at Bayon II Restaurant where we had a buffet dinner with everything you could imagine. After our dinner we saw a performance by some classical Cambodian dancers. Very nice to see the beautiful costumes and spectacular performances by both male and female dancers.
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