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We had a free morning today until 2pm where we just chilled out and tried to organise our route back from Vietnam to Bangkok for when this trip ends. The two routes we are debating are Ho Chi Minh up to Hanoi then plane back to Bangkok or overland back through Laos by bus and train. The latter is looking more likely at the moment as we really want to see Laos while we are here and it's cheaper!
At about 2pm we got some lunch from this little cafe run by disadvantaged children - a scheme to get them off the streets. We got 'Lok Lak' - beef in a kind of barbeque sauce with salad and rice. We ate this takeaway style as we had commisioned 4 tuk tuks - in a convoy- to take us up the road to the landmine museum. The museum was basically set out in a couple of wooden huts with lots of chickens running around (bit wary of the old bird flu!). It was really interesting but very upsetting to see the extent of the damage caused by the landmines and the fact that landmines are still being planted today! The money people donate at the museum goes towards helping some of the children that live there who have lost their parents or themselves have lost limbs. In the video we were shown about it, it explained how it costs something like $5 to install a landmine but $500 to deactivate one and there are thousands and thousands still to remove, still injuring people every day. Scary!
After the landmine museum we got back in our tuk tuks and went along the very bumpy road to a very stinky town along the Tonle Sap lake. Here we got a boat out to a floating village, which was amazing - floating school, floating church, shops and houses! They float so in the rainy season they don't get flooded I suppose! We got out at a floating restaurant to have a look as they farmed fish and loads of crocodiles (to export to Vietnam I think). It was really funny coz when they fed the fish they went wild, splashing about and soaked a group of Japanese tourists!
After getting the tuk tuk back to the guesthouse we went out for a buffet meal for tea with traditional cambodian dancing - very good savoury food but their strange sickly desserts leave a lot to be desired!
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