One of our adventures with J and Lindsay took us out of Siem Reap - not too far - to a place called Kompong Pluk - or The Sunken Forest - where a community lives in stilted houses because they are completely surrounded by water in the rainy season that flows from the Mekong and floods the Tonle Sap Lake. We took a tuk-tuk out to a canal that linked to the flooded Tonel Sap and hopped in a boat for the hour or so journey out to Kompong Pluk. When we arrived to the village we got to explore the area with a local guide who took us around in a small wooden boat. It was nice to see such a different way of life - the people all seemed very friendly and the children all waved as we went by gorking into their homes and lives. To us this was a surreal world where boats became essential and 7m tall houses stuck out of the water which was their life force. Gardens were built on floating platoons, animals kept under the houses on make shift floors and fish were kept in small fenced off areas to grow and multiply.
parked the Tuk -Tuk at the canal on our way to Kompong Pluk ---->
Up the canals we went heading to Kompong Pluk.
So the water level is not always this high - only in the rainy season when the Mekong floods into Tonel Sap. You could image how strange these dwellings would look in the dry season - standing 7m tall.
A Canoe trip around the Sunken Forest - showed us inside the village and the way of life for these Cambodian people.
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| J & Lindsay on Canoe trip around the sunken forest of Campong Pluk |
We had many good days and nights with J and Lindsay in Siem Reap - as well as many good beers, cocktails and dinners - on one occasion J got the biggest pancake we have ever seen in our lives (below) it was folded in half and hung of the plate a few inches - the big fella didn't even manage to finish it all!!!
Some other impressive things (drinks) were found at Miss Wongs Bar - their cocktail menu was awesome and we managed to knock back a few before heading to the equally as awesome Laundry Bar for some more nice drinks and a few games of darts and pool.
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| Miss Wongs |
To rectify the hangover situation that unfolded the day after Miss Wongs and the Laundry bar - we headed to the Blue Pumpkin - a great little deli/bakery that hosts a comfy lounge area upstairs. I fell asleep after a little pastry delight and a banana shake!!! Blue Pumpkin was also a great place to use the wifi so some of our blogs were published on Blue Pumpkin time.
I can't remember if we already blogged a photo of Pub Street - the best named street on earth!! - where else would you go for a few bevys - but the adequately named street of all streets. All they need now is a Football Street - a Sleep Street (for hotels) - and a Eat Street!!!
Oh and a shouldn't forget my friend Chandy (below) she was a very funny and nice but very short lady - who served us at the restaurant she worked at on Ann and my first night in Siem Reap - we loved her so much we visited again with J and Lindsay and then again before we left to go to Battambang. She is good fun, she likes to laugh and often (because of the language barrier) she would go off on tangents that left us bewildered and lost.
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