Floating Village, Flooded Siem Reap, and Halloween Photos

And the rest of the photos! Starting with my trip out to the village on the lake.

We went by this on our boat- they were preparing for a festival!

We almost ran headlong into another boat.

Endless lake.

The houses of the village.

School kids.

The town centre.

One of the Trailblazer guys, whom I got to watch set up and explain the use of water filters to a few local families! Really, really awesome guy!

Another of the Trailblazer guys- he taught me how to say the words for flowers, and "it's a little hot" in Khmer.

Little girl rowing a boat. The lense cover didn't open completely!

Baby boy rowing a huge boat.

Jungle safari! Riding back to Siem Reap after the water filters were installed.

View of an ancient temple through the woods.

Riding in the back of the truck over these roads makes your butt sore after a while.

The next day, Siem Reap flooded. In this part of the street, the water was up past my knees.

I think I lost my shoes right about here.

I bicycled out of town later (note: bicycling in Cambodia is sometimes a death wish) and layed in a hammock to watch the sunset.

View on the way back to town.

And then... Halloween! Bryan tried to carve a kabocha into Obama's face, but we only managed some triangles for eyes and a mouth.

Lets see, the Powerpuff Girls, Cleopatra, a crazy housewife, girl-in-yukata (me), Michael Phelps, Castro, Che, and Skeleton Hands

Eating, drinking, and dressing up.

Cleopatra and Phelps.

Odd combo...

The Powerpuff Girls!

Starting out the night at The Warehouse.

At Ankor What Bar

Brian... is a brave man. They actually tried not to serve him in one bar because he wasn't "wearing a shirt". No sense of humour...

And skipping straight to the next morning (i became incapable of taking photos pretty early in the night). Tobias and his...hair of the dog. Erk.

At the Ivy II for breakfast (at 2 in the afternoon)

Angkor Wat, etc.

Finally, the photos from Angkor Wat! And I'm sorry there are so many of them!

Outside of Angkor Wat.

Walking up to it.

Three Cambodian kids who trailed me for a while.

There were carvings like this along all the inside walls of the city.

The stairs are much steeper than they look!

Local kids performing inside the main square of Angkor Wat.

Then I went on to Phnom Bakang, which required a bit of a hike into the hills, but was deserted and beautiful.



My first sighting of the temple.

The stairs I climbed up to the top.

View from the top- you can see all the way to the lake, a few hour drive from town.

Then onto Angkor Thom, to see something I've dreamed about- Bayon.

The faces of the Buddha. (Or king Jayavarman II, possibly)

Surreal.

Then over to Baphuon, still in Angkor Thom. You can't actually get into the temple right now, which was disappointing because its one of the main Hindu temples.

Baphuon.

Then I headed to Ta Prohm, to see the ancient trees growing out of the temple in the jungle.

These roots were more than two times as big around as me.