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Siem Reap is the home of the world famous temple known as Angkor Wat, as well as about 13 other temples in the surrounding area of Angkor. Our first day in Siem Reap we went on a boat tour out to the floating village on a lake that is 312 km long extending all the way to Phnom Penh. The lake varies in depth from 3m in the dry season, to 8m in the rainy season. The water goes from nasty nasty brown, like it was when we were there, to an extremely clear blue once the water levels rise. We stopped at a floating market and bought a big bag of rice to bring to the floating school. Since it was Sunday there were only about 80 kids at the school instead of the regular 314, but most of these 80 kids were orphaned by a typhoon that came six years ago and killed many many people, and the kids live there full time. There were five teachers at the school, all of them volunteers from either Thailand or Vietnam. We got to go aboard the school and play around with the kids who seemed to love us even though they couldn't speak any English whatsoever, which I got a few good pictures of. The next day we went and did the grand tour of Angkor Wat and about 8 of the surrounding temples. Needless to say it was all very amazing to see, but now we understand why there are week long passes available as well as the 3 and 1-day passes, as we were so tired by the 3 o clock mark (starting at 9) that we ended up skipping 3 of the last 4 temples. I got too many pictures to count of all the temples so ill pick out the good ones and put them on Facebook. We left that same night for a beach town at the south of Cambodia called Sihanoukville, which is where I'm writing this from. We plan on spending four or five nights here and were going to meet up with our English friends today which should be a blast.
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michelle Good blogging Zach! We thought you were giving up on this! Quite the adventures your having. Looking forward to the pics! The floating orphanage sounds pretty neat, youll have to tell us more on that later. Love you, keep current on the blogs. xxoo
Natasha Such a good story teller you are! Love reading your blog, your trip sounds amazing!