Fun week in Cambodia
12 January 2013 | Siem Reap
APW, sunny and warm, 80 degree
Left Phnom Penh for drive north through the countryside. Fascinating to see how the farmers live. Very fertile land and simple lifestyles, but very happy people. Stopped at a silk farm for lunch started by a Vietnam expat who returned after the war. Weather has been such that he is just rebuilding his silk worms, but he was able to demonstrate the entire process. Lovely lunch, met the ladies who made our respective scarves; lovely. Silver factory was next (actually in someone's garage) but interesting what they were able to produce with their natural product of silver. Nice bungalow hotel with a pool. Onto Siem Reap the next am, a small, cosmopolitan City, whose claim to fame is the Anchor Wat. 120 hotels and great nightlife and restaurants. Stopped for a river trip on the way through a colony of vietnamese, Cambodians and Laotiand who come to live on the river when the river is high. The river flows into the largest lake in Cambodia, the Boeung Tonie Sap. Nice picnic linch on board. Arrived in Siem Reap in time for another evening at the FCC, very near the hotel. Down to the
old market area for dinner and nightlife! Thursday am at 5am! Set off for sunrise view