I don't think they are used to foreign visitors around Kompong Cham because everywhere we went we were stared at and lots of people would shout "hello" and wave - the children were so excited to see us and came running out to have a closer look.

We hopped into some tuk tuks (like motorised rickshaws) for a tour of the surrounding area. We visited a Muslim village and saw how the ladies there weave silk on manual looms. I was shocked to learn that they can only make 50cm per day, working from dawn to dusk - they must earn so little money from it and they have no land so silk weaving and fishing are the primary sources of income for these families.

We went to see the Buddhist monuments and temples at the 'Man and Woman Hills' - legend has it that a team of men and a team of women had a competition to decide which gender should have the responsibility of proposing marraige to the other, the winner being the team that built the highest hill by sunrise. The women's team built a fire to trick the men into thinking sunrise had come - the men stopped working and the women carried on to win the competition and that's why men have to propose to women.

We also visited a rural village with a school run by an NGO for the children that can't afford to travel to school far away - they learn Khmer, English and French. We also visited a lady that lived in the village in a small bamboo house on stilts. She told us how her husband was killed by the Khmer Rouge and her children had all grown up and gotten married so she lived alone. She seemed to have lots of friendly neighbours that popped in while we there (mostly interested to get a closer look at the strange foreigners!).