A Country Girl Tending Her Water Buffaloes. Suzan

is in the Background on the Bikes We Rented to Explore.

Water Buffalo Family Taking a Dip by the Side of

the Road. Daddy Came Charging, So We Bailed Out.

Monkey Family We Discovered in the Jungle Around

Angkor Wat. Hundreds of Wild Monkeys Playing Around.

"And These Little Piggies Went to Market"

Squealing and Peeing Along the Way.

Suzan Walking Through our 'Hood on the Way to

Our Villa at the Golden Banana Hotel.

Jim With His Friends at the Siem Reap Center for

Handicapped Children, Victims of Bombs and Mines.

We visited Handicapped International. This is partially government supported yet primarily it exists due to private donations. There is no social support system in Cambodia so anyone who is a victim of a land mine accident (and thousands a year are) - are on their own. This organization helps these individiuals with prosthesis, counseling support, in some cases how to adapt to a new livelihood, etc. It also helps the many people in traffic accidents or with severe birth defects. While here Jim and I tossed a ball with a lot of the kids (missing limbs or with cerebral palsy etc.) -- we all laughed and had such fun with this simple activity. Then Jim took out his polaroid camera to take everyone's photos (then we'd give it to them). Suddenly the parents of the children at the center were lining up their kids - even taking them outside on a portable hospital bed to have their photos taken. It seemed that many had never had their photos taken. This experience moved us beyond words!

One of the Ubiquitous Street Vendors. Mostly Kids

Pushing Books and Postcards to Pay for Their Schooling.

So many children of all ages surrounded us daily with wares to sell. Usually tourist books or post cards. They would ask first, Where are you from? And then they'd rattle off the capital of the state, the political situation etc....they definitely have had training from a major sales shark. Very impressive nonetheless. They say that they need the money for school - yet in truth, these children will likely never go to school. The parents choose for them not to go to school so instead they can help the family to earn money. So very sad to observe children who at their tender ages should be either in school and/or out playing having a childhood - rather than walking up to tourists day and night with their sales spiels pushing carts with wares or lugging heavy loads of merchandise - with often no parents in sight.

Riding the Red Mud Trails of Siem Reap Country-

side. We Received Lots of Strange Looks from the Locals

Locals Wearing Traditional Khmer Clothing.

A Very Classic Scene of Rural Cambodia, Thatched

Hut, Water Buffalo, Rice Paddies

All Modes of Transportation Share the Road in

the Cambodian Countryside, Animals Rule the Road!

School Girls Heading Home From School in the

Shanty Town Alongside the Tonle Sap River

We toured the Tonle Sap area by boat (and a very rickety one - he kept having to rewire the bilge pump to keep the motor going) and the boat had no life jackets. People live on the equivalent of houseboats year round here - some even live on longboats (entire families crowded together). The school, shopping areas, recreation areas were all afloat. The road that we took to the boat had to be the bumpiest road we'd ever been on. We took a tuk tuk so once again were covered in dust and it seemed that the vehicle would fall into one of the road holes - so large! The people who live along this road rebuilt a small wooden type shanty every year as it floods annually and they must move for awhile until the waters clear out.

A House in a Floating Town That is Located on

the Tonle Sap Lake.

Now This is a Houseboat! The Family Lives and

Works on the Tonle Sap Lake.

More of the Floating City That Moves Along with

Rise and Fall of the Tonle Sap Lake.

Ladies and Children Paddle on the Tonle Sap Lake

Commuting to Somewhere.