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My fist day in Siem Reap I visited the old market were women sit on long wooden counters chopping and hanging meat or they could be surrounded by table of beautiful local fruits and vegetables waiting for the next buyer.  Here at the market you will also see vendors selling  some of the freshest authentic Cambodian fried rice and noodles. 

Later in the afternoon I took a boat on Tonle Sap Lake, the largest fresh water lake in South East Asia.  The lake is home to ethnic Vietnamese and net-twirling fishermen living in houseboats.   As you travel in your water taxi through the village, exploited children travel along side the boat by small motor boats, or even sitting in floating mixing bowls paddling with one hand and bailing out by the other.  They try sell bananas for “one dollah, one dollah“  It is temping to buy, but it only perpetuates the exploitation.Siem Reap is best known for arguably the eighth wonder of the world, Ankor Wat temple, but also contains dozens of other temples  in this city of cities.  Jet lag can be a blessing as I didn’t need my alarm clock to wake up at 4:30 in the morning to see the sun rise behind the shrine of Vishnu at Ankor Wat with it’s silhouette reflected in the lake below.  You could spend days in Ankor Wat alone, but we only had one.  In 14 blistering hours we visited four other temples ending with the sun setting at Pre Rup.Today we are travelling south via bus to the beach area of Sihanoukville with stops in Kompong Chan and a homestay in Takeo.