Angkor What?

Floating Village outside of Seim Reap. Actually pretty cool. These fisherman live on the lake as the water rises and lowers through the season. However I don't recommend drinking the water. 12% of children here don't make it past 5 due to poor sanitary conditions among other things I'm sure.

Akiko buying food at a local Khmer market, so unlike her : )
The sellers sat up on the tables with their food to sell, pretty cool. And super cheap food.

Listening to a Khmer cover band at a bar in Seim Reap with Dave's friend Adam,

he was very helpful and he spoke really good english ; )

We meet a traveler who was teaching at an orphanage in Seim Reap so we decided bring the kids some balls to play with and spend some time with them. They LOVED us! and the adults thought we were volunteers (they didn't speak any english) ... we ended up playing with the kids all morning and were asked to teach english in the afternoon class. Akiko taught the younger kids while Brandon and I took charge of the "older" kids. While most kids we had encountered were begging and obnoxious, these kids were so sweet and pure of heart... it's was one of the best experiences we had. Too bad it's now illegal to adopt children in Cambodia (they were being sold into slavery in Thailand) or I would have come home with a couple.

We spent three days exploring the temples of Anchor by bicycle (very hot but avoids the high cost and annoyance of the tuk tuk drivers). Our friend Akiko joined us for a week It was nice to have a familiar face on the trip : )

First stop in Cambodia after our horrific boarder crossing was Seim Reap - home of the SE Asia Empire back in the day... now it is Cambodia's pride and joy, and the envy of Thailand.