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We set out the next morning back into Angkor and started enthusiastically. We saw the jungle temple and another believed to have been used as a hospital to pray for healing. The jungle Temple where parts of Tomb Raider were shot was really impressive - the jungle both destroying the temple and in some places supporting it. All the temples we saw were great but we were templed out by midday so we opted to go on a river boat tour down to the Tonle Sap after lunch.
The Tonle Sap "The Feeder" is a huge lake that varies dramatically in size through flooding by the Mekong yearly. It is great for fishing and a community of people living on floating houses have grown up around this industry. We took a long tail boat down river through the village right up to the lake. The village has everything from mobile mini markets to schools on floating buildings of all sizes. Everyone seems to have their own little boat to get around in, even a baby who could have been four max was in a washing up bowl floating past in the middle of the river! We saw a number of fish farms on the river but also a floating pig shed, possibly the cleanest pigs ever! There were large swells near the lake our pilot considered too dangerous to risk so we turned back, only glimpsed the lake which was red brown from flood water and huge the larges in SE Asia. On the way back we stopped off at a fish farm which turned out to be a crocodile farm too. They are not native and kept strictly for shoes, handbags and as a tourist attraction apparently... We ended the day with a lovely meal with Mr Sarouen who showed us one of his favourite places to eat at a local market - the food was the best we'd had in Cambodia.
The following morning we had an early flight to Puket in Thailand on Bangkok airways.
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