The boat was moving by the time we got
down to breakfast though we didn't have far to go, First excursion of
the day was to Angkor Ban, a small village on the banks of the Mekong
that feature the traditional Cambodian stilt houses.
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| Stilt house |
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| Village laneway |
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| Village temple |
A gentle stroll through the village and
we were back on board for the compulsory safety drill with life
jackets and a relatively simple explanation of what we would be
required to do in case of emergency: basically not much other than
don the life jackets and do as we were told. Though it was put in
rather milder terms than that.
The afternoon excursion took in a
primary school on another small island, Oknha Tey (1 kilometre by 5
kilometres) where we talked to some of the grade 6 students learning
English. We made some donations to the teacher and were told that
our cruise company helped to fund the English teacher in this
village; something that was not available in a lot of other schools.
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| English class |
Then it was a short ride by tuk-tuk to
a silk farm which employed a number of the local women in the trade.
We'd seen a similar setup in Vientiane but this was much better, and
we got a view of silk from egg to caterpillar to cocoon to thread to
final product. Robyn picked up a few things in the shop, as she does.
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| Silk worm cocoons |
The boat moored at the end of the
island which turned out to be just across the river from Phnom Penh,
the Cambodian capital. Die to the change in schedule we would be
moored for three nights within about a kilometre.
The cruise director showed The Killing
Fields in the main lounge at 9pm but I was nearly asleep by that time
and so skipped it.
It was a bit of a lazy day which was a
relief after some of the hectic ones we'd had, or seemed to have had
on this trip.
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