Feb 2nd, it's the last day in town for Rachel and Lindy. they became my best pals by now, they're off to their next destination of vietnam, then laos, then to malaysia... beautiful couple, and i got their warm invitation to their house in melbourne!
so we decide to go to Tonle Sap lake, another tourist spot nearby Siem Reap. the lake expands four times as large in wet season from may to november, and there is famous floating village where people live on the houses floating on the lake. we charter our little boat with a nice tour guide named "Donut" and cruise down the river headed for the lake.
'Floating Village' is nonsence. it's a big tourist spot with floating restaurants and floating gift shops. Donut tries to bring us to those places to spend money, but we instead ask him and the boat driver to go yonder to less populated part of the village, turn off the engine and float. as soon as we trun the engine off, we see a couple of little canoes rowing staright up at us... are they racing? yes, to sell thing to us! we can't get away from all these vendors, can we? our disappointment, however, is brief once we see the children on the canoes holding up couple of cold beers. that's the best delivery service you can get when you are floating.
we don't want to go to that large floating restaurant to eat with tourists. so we ask Donut in our horrible khmer to take us to where Cambodian people eat. he take us to his house, we sit floating and watch the life in village. a small restaurant with pool table being tugged by a boat. they have to relocate houses constantly by season and by tide. how do they play billiard when they float anyways?
finally the food is ready, typical khmer amok (fish and egg) over rice. so good. rachel and lindy give more than what would probably be the price at the restaurant, to the old lady who cooked for us, as men in the house watch it in surprise. go girls!
so we decide to go to Tonle Sap lake, another tourist spot nearby Siem Reap. the lake expands four times as large in wet season from may to november, and there is famous floating village where people live on the houses floating on the lake. we charter our little boat with a nice tour guide named "Donut" and cruise down the river headed for the lake.
'Floating Village' is nonsence. it's a big tourist spot with floating restaurants and floating gift shops. Donut tries to bring us to those places to spend money, but we instead ask him and the boat driver to go yonder to less populated part of the village, turn off the engine and float. as soon as we trun the engine off, we see a couple of little canoes rowing staright up at us... are they racing? yes, to sell thing to us! we can't get away from all these vendors, can we? our disappointment, however, is brief once we see the children on the canoes holding up couple of cold beers. that's the best delivery service you can get when you are floating.
we don't want to go to that large floating restaurant to eat with tourists. so we ask Donut in our horrible khmer to take us to where Cambodian people eat. he take us to his house, we sit floating and watch the life in village. a small restaurant with pool table being tugged by a boat. they have to relocate houses constantly by season and by tide. how do they play billiard when they float anyways?
finally the food is ready, typical khmer amok (fish and egg) over rice. so good. rachel and lindy give more than what would probably be the price at the restaurant, to the old lady who cooked for us, as men in the house watch it in surprise. go girls!
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