The floating villages

Thanks to Cameron, owner of Angkor Spirit Hotel in Siem Reap, the team visited the floating villages. It was just another world!

On our way we stopped to try the best Cambodian food for me until now, which is sticky rice with beans mixed with coconut milk. Really good and tasty although you will need instructions to open it!! :D

 

 

Continuing our trip we got close to the floating village. A lot of poor people in Cambodia don’t have even land to build their houses. Many Cambodians and Vietnamese live nowadays in the water. Some of these floating villages are accessible by land only certain times of the year as when the flow of the river or lakes goes up during the raining season boat is the only way to get to them.

The view from the van, looking at the river it is just unbelievable. The street is full of wood made houses in the sides of the river which are constructed several meters above the water in the dry season. When the rain comes they will appear to be in the water!!

I let you here some photos that will describe more this area and you will be able to see how people survive in this villages based on their fishing skills!

At the very end you will see part of the team in a farm, looking something behinds us. Looking some of their faces you can realize that when they showed us a crocodile farm close to the river we started to be happy of having finished our boat trip over the river without having to swim!! :D

After that we went back to Siem Reap had a nice lunch in Cameron’s restaurant and visited an artisans house with the Cambodians working and showing us all the production steps for Buddha figures in wood, silk scarf’s, metallic boxes… all handmade in front of us! What a patient!