Angkor Wat – Inside the temples

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The temple ruins were amazing. Everywhere you looked there were exquisite details, carvings, embellishments.

More Cambodian Dance!

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Weird folk tales of love and loss. Then mythical goddesses. All very symbolic.

Cambodia – Floating towns.

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As the water levels can rise twenty feet the houses have to either float or be built on long stilts. We passed floating towns.

Cambodia – Floating villages

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It’s a nomadic community that lives on the river! Some build more permanent homes. I imagine there’s a lot of moving about!

Cambodia – images of a way of life

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As we drifted along I imagined myself living this life, simpler in many ways, much more basic, precarious, hard work. I think I might have enjoyed it. Perhaps more real.

Angkor Wat shrouded in the morning mist.

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Angkor Wat is a marvel. It’s an enormous place!

Cambodia – Life along the Mekong – A glimpse

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As we went slowly down the river we had a glimpse into the lives of other people. It puts your life in perspective.

Cambodia – Fishing on the Mekong

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The waters rise and flood the land. The houses are all on stilts. It makes the land extremely fertile and the river teems with fish. Unfortunately, the families of the fisherfolk have grown. Commercial enterprises have moved in. It is incredibly overfished to unsustainable levels.

Cambodia – Another way of life.

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sailing down the river gives you an insight into how other people live! This community’s whole life revolved around the river and fishing.

Out of Cambodia and into Vietnam as sunset turns the river to gold. Photos.

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We continued down the river and had to stop at a small shack which was border control to have our passports stamped.