Siem Reap - Day One (Cont)

The Floating Village of Chong Khneas

Day one stop number two was the floating village. It is a village that lives in the middle of a lake on house boats. To get to it, you have to take about a thirty minute boat ride to get to the middle of the lake. But it was definately a site to see.


We went to Siem Reap with two other people from the Phnom Penh church, Gerlinda Lucas and Will Goodwin. The guy in the very back was our tuk-tuk driver extraordinaire Phirun.

The village is made up of a couple hundred house boats. They also have a couple of restaurants, stores, gas station, basketball court, a clinic and a school. There are several hundred people that live in the floating village.

 

We ate at one of the restaurants that also had a crocodile farm, fish farm and some kids with snakes.

 

The guy on the right looks very hungry!!

 

This was the BIG DADDY of the gators!

 

Tod let them put one of the snakes around his neck, but Michelle wasn't going near them.

Look at that smile.

That's the sign of insanity...someone puts a snake on you and you smile.

 

That evening, we went to a photo gallery exhibit that several Ex-Pats were holding of life around Cambodia. It was very impactful to see some of the the horrendous mistreatments that the Cambodian people are suffering. Many are taken out of their homes, put in trucks and dumped into a field and told to live their because the property their home was on is needed to build somthing commercial.

Here we are with one of the Photo Journalist, David Belluz who was displaying his work.

 

To finish our night, we went downtown Siem Reap for dinner and watched a live band.

 

The best part was they had generators so had electricity and internet so everyone was able to update their facebook pages and check their e-mail. How did we survive without technology???