Friday, October 16, 2015

Along The Mekong day 2

Tonle Sap River (link, lien, enlace)
In the morning of our second day, an excursion to Kampong Chnang, the most important fishing port at the Tonle Sap River. A small boat took us to a lively local market. Numerous local food delicacies, one of the most famous is unborn chicken, fully formed inside the egg. We bought some and gave them to local children that enjoyed them very much… In the afternoon, we went to Kampong Tralach a small beautiful village with two pagodas, driven by ox carts. Children were selling flowers for the pagodas. Later on we visited the Oudong, a royal residence in Cambodia for more than 250 years. A monumental necropolis of sovereigns with dozens of stupas is visible, and many buddhist monks and nouns live there today. We received a blessing in a colourful painted pagoda by a buddhist monk.
In the evening we watched the famous “ The Killing Fields” movie, by Roland Joffé, based on a real story during the brutal Khmer Rouge regime (1975-1979), in preparation of the visit in Phnom Penh of the dreadful S-21jail.

Tonle Sap River (link, lien, enlace)

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