Siem Reap, Cambodia
June 4-7
Living at the Big Lyna Guest House
The Center for Khmer Studies' Library at Wat Damnak. Spend every day here.
My bathroom. No TP, warm water, or water pressure of course.
My room # 1.
My room #2.
My veranda. Not bad eh?
Kethya, our assistant for the week. I rode on the back of that moto for most of the first weekend.
Kethya, Lein, Me, Jessie, Liz, Sapram, and Miriam (from France) out on the floating village on the Tonle Sap lake.
Lein, Jessie, and Miriam packed on a little moto en route to the Tonle Sap.
Me and my new favorite flower, the lotus.
The little seeds taste somewhere between a fruit and a nut. It stays fresh about 10 hours, so you'll never see these out in the USA.
My new steed - no gears, barely any breaks, but she is sexy. Bought her for $20
Some stilt-houses on the way to the Tonle Sap river. The water fills in a huge basin during the rainy season that practically doubles the size of the lake. These houses are prepared.
Maui, Chaui, and Tlaui at the land village near the lake. Tlaui can do T'ai Chi at age 5.
The floating village.
These and many such signs are all over the way to the Angkor complex. My favorite was "Tourism contributes to poverty alleviation."