A beautiful morning, woke up to little children playing on the river bank by our cabin, such simple happy lives they display. We are in Prek K'dam and we only have one tour today, a very special one – we disembark for a 20 minute bus drive to Oudong Monastery where we attend a special Buddha Blessing.Oudong was once the capital of Cambodia in 1618 after one of Phnom Penh’s many periods of abandonment, and remained the royal stronghold until King ...

This morning we explore Phnom Penh by Tuk Tuk taking in the sights of the Independence Monument, Wat Phom and an hour at the Russian Market where you can bargain for anything you find at the markets.The Independence Monument occupies a traffic island south of the Royal Palace, built in the shape of a lotus, completed in 1958 and celebrates Cambodia's independence from France, which took place five years earlier.We are actually on the Tonle Sap River, on the S...