THURSDAY 4 AUGUST 2011
We were woken at 6 a.m. but I was already up and saw the dawn rise over the Mekong Delta. We were taken by boat at 7.15 to a fish farm, where we saw the fish being fed. The fish farm was built on the water, with trap doors under the veranda and in the main living room to access the fish. In the living room there was polished furniture and an alter, which was unexpected in such basic surroundings.
We took a different boat up the Mekong until we arrived at the Cambodian Boarder, where we waited about an hour for our visas to be processed at the Customs Post. We had a short boat ride to check in at the border post in Cambodia and our final boat took us all the way to Phnom Penh.
The scenery on the way was magnificent. The boat went near to both shores and we passed village after village with the people and children waving to us. The houses are built on stilts with corrugated iron for roofs and palm leaves for walls. Many of the boats were dug out canoes. Buffalo drank at the water’s edge and fishermen swung large hand nets into the water for fishing. The journey took about five hours and we arrived in Phnom Penh about 6 p.m., when I took a tuk tuk to my hotel.
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| Fish Farm in a house! |
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| Muslim Cham Village |
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