Mr Keang drove us through the countryside. It’s the dry season right now but where we got to see all houses on stilts and you can only imagine how things look when the rains fill it in. Next week, the rains are suppose to start.
We then headed to the docks for a boat ride up the Chong Khneas to see the floating villages.
This is our tour guide, Chuck...or Chuckie as we affectionately called him...
And our driver Ta...(who I was forever calling Tata...)
With little water in the river, the boats have to stay pretty much in the centre which makes it look like every boat coming at you is going to hit you…
You can see how low the water is right now by looking at the river signs that are usually just a few feet out of the water. Even at the deepest point in the river, it's only a couple of feet deep.
This was our drink delivery..
Check out the video to see how this really works...
These are pics of the floating village...They said there are something like a thousand boats floating here...
There's even floating chicken coops...
And floating pig pens...
This one kind of looks like a Burlock house...
How cool would it be to do a Habitat for Humanity build here???
Instead of bikes, kids get boats...
Afternoon nap time...
We went by and gave this girl a Western pen... most of these kids can't afford the pens and books to go to school...even with school being free, they can't go...
We stopped by a restaurant/souvenir shop/crocodile farm…
Little did these guys know they could be Cooper's next pair of boots...
There are lots of floating stores...and of course this one comes by and all they have is bananas...(which I'm allergic to so I gave them some $$ but didn't take anything...) They probably thought I was weird and didn't know how stores work??
This floating store had a satelite and tv....
We stopped by a restaurant/souvenir shop/crocodile farm…
Little did these guys know they could be Cooper's next pair of boots...
It was amazing to see but it was breaking our hearts when all of the boats came by with small children begging for money. Some of them had snakes they would let you hold…
But the one that brought me to tears was this three or four year old girl who was with her grandmother. The girl was obviously sick but still out there begging…We gave some money to most of them, including the sick girl but when the grandmother saw us give some more to this family of five, she chased after our motor boat in her canoe…and held onto the side of our boat…I didn’t have the heart to not give her more…
One of the most amazing things of the day for me was visiting a floating school...
Teacher Ms. Cooper...
It's hard to tell if the kids just love getting adult attention or that they get so many visitors that they are trained to smile.... Either way, it was unbelievible to see...
We bought pens and books at the floating store to give to the teacher...
Teacher Ms. Cooper...
It's hard to tell if the kids just love getting adult attention or that they get so many visitors that they are trained to smile.... Either way, it was unbelievible to see...
We bought pens and books at the floating store to give to the teacher...
On the way home... Up the creek with only one paddle....
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