We are up and off by 7am today through different rural areas with rice paddies coming vivid green as the second crop (smaller) ripens. Yesterday we saw bananas, coconuts, rubber (latex), cassava, timber, rice, along with small green crops.
At the market where we stop en route, we saw monks doing the rounds to garner food or contributions, in return for which they chant a blessing. It's a form of tithe everywhere here but people seem to accept it.
There are shacks along the road for new Cambodian settlers from rural areas. They perch precariously on the edge of the road, often with a drop off to the riverbed (now fairly dry), you can't imagine how these people can survive.
School here is half day, either morning or afternoon, every day except Sunday, but none of these kids will have that experience. Laos was certainly more developed than Cambodia. Annual earnings less than US$400-500 a year.
We pass through many small villages and markets and are fascinated by it all. Houses on stilts are one room with animals below in shade, and huge earthenware water pots outside. Dogs wander everywhere.
Again, we return to the hotel for a shower and cool rest, we don't seem to be interested in lunch, just nibble onfruit and cookies.
At the market where we stop en route, we saw monks doing the rounds to garner food or contributions, in return for which they chant a blessing. It's a form of tithe everywhere here but people seem to accept it.
There are shacks along the road for new Cambodian settlers from rural areas. They perch precariously on the edge of the road, often with a drop off to the riverbed (now fairly dry), you can't imagine how these people can survive.
School here is half day, either morning or afternoon, every day except Sunday, but none of these kids will have that experience. Laos was certainly more developed than Cambodia. Annual earnings less than US$400-500 a year.
We pass through many small villages and markets and are fascinated by it all. Houses on stilts are one room with animals below in shade, and huge earthenware water pots outside. Dogs wander everywhere.
Again, we return to the hotel for a shower and cool rest, we don't seem to be interested in lunch, just nibble onfruit and cookies.
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