Wind from the Khmer Rouge years (6) the Tonle trip, return journey

Tonle trip, the return journey (2.1)

Yesterday evening at Deadfish, listen to the segment guide they say cycle to the Tonle.

Tonle is Southeast Asia's largest freshwater lake, famous for its long-awaited, but also not met. It is said that while the scenery is very good, hook up the Sun. The plane is taking off in the afternoon, so I decided to use the morning ride.

Siem Reap car rental is easy, the hotel has the $ 1/day.

The city to the Lake, approximately 15 km, along the Sun Sengky front Road East. Start also row breeze very pleasant. Walk along the Siem Reap River, the sky, endless plains, rice has been grown and lush. See rice fields, as if back to Chengdu Plains. While the field with the rows of tall palm trees, and remind here is tropical. Passing by the villagers of housing, children will warmly greet you. Villagers in front of the House, with fruit jelly coconut trees, door hanging Sihanouk and Queen's portrait.

Sun rise, the heat up.

In front of a small hill, walk up the Lake path of rugged, this section is not asphalted road surface, red fly (really red soil OH). Because the Tonle seasonal very strong, the rainy season, it will be expanded to 1 million square kilometres, it is the dry season, the Lake and only 2 thousand square kilometers, this segment of the path in the rainy season is located at the bottom, so it can't laying pavement. This bike is a great test, a roadside tree, the Sun is straight-on, full of tourists in the car after the omnipresent dust. Side of the village, is amazing. Use bamboo into housing walls, the roof of the grass cover, inside seemingly apart from a bed quilts and some kitchen tools is nothing.

Ride to the Lake, the water is cloudy yellow color.

Fortunately, there is no industrial pollution, and does not like the pungent Funan water. However, due to the shore residents like making fish sauce, the air is full of stink of fish sauce. Ran down to the Lake of passenger ships, cargo ships, water store, hospital, time limited, unfortunately abandoned the idea of a boat on the Lake, on the way home.

Also spent an hour with the Sun back to Siem Reap city.

Bath, check-out, for lunch. Ivy restaurant's delicious fried noodles, recommended. And a tuktuk car that $ 4 rushed to the airport. Paid a $ 20 airport tax (also has a nice name called passenger service charge). In the Terminal Hall sit down, and when cold, the Hall was full of members, and tour groups some of them about two sentences, found them even in Angkor to play those parts of the wood there are clear, and the airport duty free shop shopping but anomalies, $ 2 for a pair of chopsticks are the one's grasp, are without number. To be fair, duty free shop thing really is very delicate, like the arts and crafts, clothing, perfumes, and so on, are full of charm and meticulous workmanship in Cambodia, and outside the market of products with a world of difference is that the price is too expensive, rich comrades can consider buying.

Return flight to vacate.

I see Tonle, Lake Hill Road, Lake vast jungle, evolve and Angkor monuments, never loose in this endless jungle.