Another temple that i can't remember the name of....but it is the temple of the farmer king....there is a legend that there was this farmer who planted cucumbers which the king loved. The farmer would bring his cucumbers every night and the king liked them so much that he gave the farmer a special weapon that would kill anyone who tried to steal the cucumbers....one night the farmer got sick and couldn't bring the king his cucumbers, so the king snuck out into the cucumber patch and the farmer chopped the king's head off thinking he was a burgerler. Then, the farmer realized what he did and hid the king's head under his bed. So, no one was able to find the king and they needed to find a new one.....apparently the special, ceremonial, white elephant will kneel in front of whoever is supposed to be king...so they let loose this elephant all over cambodia trying to find a new king, but they couldn't find one....UNTIL, the elephant came to the cucumber farmer's house and smelled the king's head under the farmer's bed and knelt down....that is how the farmer became a king....and this is his temple...supposeldy....
Here are Me, Matt, Liz, and Matt's cousin Hing ready to go for a ride to the Tonle Sap...a huge lake and to the floating village.
And, here we are on a tuk tuk with our driver, Mr. Lucky, ready for another day at the temples! yay!
Matt and Jon chugging some booze on the balcony.....pound it!
Me relaxing in a hammock in the backyard...i am going to miss this hammock!
Here is a view of the floating village...this is a river going to the Tonle Sap which we took a boat ride down...the water levels rise and fall a lot...so when the water gets too high or too low the entire village moves either out into the tonle sap or back to this river.
They had a crocodile farm on the river...ah!
Here's the whole gang on our boat. Apparently, they take the motors our of old cars and put them in boats to make them...they even had the steering wheel from the car in the boat!
The Awky Day (that is totally spelled wrong)...but a good place to hang out!
Jon and I on Pub Street....we matched again!
Me, being a dornk in Matt's house...this is like the main room...you can see the front door behind me...there are 5 bedrooms on the first floor (we're using one of them as a kitchen now), and upstairs there are 3 plus the master bedroom (which is huge and has an awesome bathroom). The only thing the house is missing is a couch :)
Here i am...guess what i'm eating......SNAKE! I actually can't believe I ate it and kind of liked it...i've also tried crickets (ew), frog (ew), and some weird little shrimp things (also ew). And matt ate a dog....EW!...and a crocodile...kinda ew.
More hammock relaxing...right under a coconut tree.
A typical end to the day :)
Hanging out at another temple...this one was really cool and it was towards the end of the day so there weren't any other people on it. i can't remember the name of it...
Man these things are big!
Here are Lizzy and I on top of Angor Wat...you normally can go to the very top, but it was under contstruction so we couldn't :(
This is Matt and his cute little cousin Ratanak.
Another temple that i can't remember the name of....but it is the temple of the farmer king....there is a legend that there was this farmer who planted cucumbers which the king loved. The farmer would bring his cucumbers every night and the king liked them so much that he gave the farmer a special weapon that would kill anyone who tried to steal the cucumbers....one night the farmer got sick and couldn't bring the king his cucumbers, so the king snuck out into the cucumber patch and the farmer chopped the king's head off thinking he was a burgerler. Then, the farmer realized what he did and hid the king's head under his bed. So, no one was able to find the king and they needed to find a new one.....apparently the special, ceremonial, white elephant will kneel in front of whoever is supposed to be king...so they let loose this elephant all over cambodia trying to find a new king, but they couldn't find one....UNTIL, the elephant came to the cucumber farmer's house and smelled the king's head under the farmer's bed and knelt down....that is how the farmer became a king....and this is his temple...supposeldy....
Here are Me, Matt, Liz, and Matt's cousin Hing ready to go for a ride to the Tonle Sap...a huge lake and to the floating village. 
And, here we are on a tuk tuk with our driver, Mr. Lucky, ready for another day at the temples! yay! 
Matt and Jon chugging some booze on the balcony.....pound it!
They had a crocodile farm on the river...ah!
Here's the whole gang on our boat. Apparently, they take the motors our of old cars and put them in boats to make them...they even had the steering wheel from the car in the boat!
The Awky Day (that is totally spelled wrong)...but a good place to hang out!
Jon and I on Pub Street....we matched again!
Me, being a dornk in Matt's house...this is like the main room...you can see the front door behind me...there are 5 bedrooms on the first floor (we're using one of them as a kitchen now), and upstairs there are 3 plus the master bedroom (which is huge and has an awesome bathroom). The only thing the house is missing is a couch :)
Here i am...guess what i'm eating......SNAKE! I actually can't believe I ate it and kind of liked it...i've also tried crickets (ew), frog (ew), and some weird little shrimp things (also ew). And matt ate a dog....EW!...and a crocodile...kinda ew.
More hammock relaxing...right under a coconut tree.
A typical end to the day :)
Hanging out at another temple...this one was really cool and it was towards the end of the day so there weren't any other people on it. i can't remember the name of it...
Man these things are big!
Here are Lizzy and I on top of Angor Wat...you normally can go to the very top, but it was under contstruction so we couldn't :(
This is Matt and his cute little cousin Ratanak. 
1 comment:
SNAKE!!! You ate snake???? Among other "interesting(?)" things....I don't think I could have handled the crickets....and definitely not dog! Hope all is well....happy traveling....safe journey home!
Love you....
Mom
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