.. Exhausting but fabulous. Five Temples in two days plus a trip down the Siem Reap canal to see the lake people. They live on boats canoes and barges that rise up thirty feet in the monsoons. The floatng school and restaurant too. They now do fish farming and raise crockodiles but it is still marginal.. Arrived at the Temple at 5 am to see the sunrise I went in alone as everyone waited for the sun. An hour alone was magical all the dancers . buddhas and carvings seemed alive. Then the rain came with the grey clouds, and no sun. Hordes of people thronged thru the passageways but I had my private time. Each suceeding Temple added to the glory of a time long past. The jungle had captured many of
the structures and many are being restored by tha Japanese Germans Fren chand Koreans not the Americans. Many small children but no teenagers it is only in the last ten years that there is peace. The internet is much faster with the ship empty but I must go for my last day in Saigon.
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it is so great to see it empty, but can you imagine what it must have been like when it was bustling! when danny and leah and i were there the first time there were only about 50 people in the whole complex and guards standing around with kalishnakovs.tourism is a great thing for the income of the people....as long as they can control it. cant wait to hear all the stories and see all the pics.
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