Tonle Sap River boat

So, yesterday we took the theoretically most beautiful boat ride of the whole Southeast Asia... CRAP!! Maybe some pictures look nice, but the ride was not more than ok, compared to others in Laos, for example.

Viewof the Tonle Sap river at the beginning of the trip:

The locals live literally in the water:

The most destroyed motorbike I've ever seen:

More people:

This girl was always looking at the camera, so I took a funny pic!:

Enrica and Oriol were Veeery Happy during the ride:

Boat caravan:

Old woman (don't want even to imagine what she has been through):

Village by the river (it is on the water):

Women on a boat:

Old woman looking at our boat:

The monk ride:

Hi kids!:

And tomorrow, what I have been waiting for a long time, the first visit to the mighty Angkor Temples. I guess first will be Angkor Watt (running joke: Angkor What?)...

Phnom Penh

The last days have not been so good. People are sometimes hostile, and I don't feel really welcome in many places. Anyway, two pictures which I find interesting, and afterwards come the real thing...

Little girl playing with ther mum's hair (she did not really take care of her at all...)

Unas arañitas para comer?...

Who wants some spiders as an appetizer?...

 I really thought of not posting these pictures, I think is one of the most hard things I have seen in my whole life. 

From April 17th 1975 until January 7th 1979, the Khmer Rouge acting under orders of the leader Pol Pot directed one of the most bloody genocides in the World History. The United Nations ignored it completely because Vietnam wanted to fight the Khmer Rouge and Vietnam was an enemy of countries like USA, China and Thailand (which would support afterwards the Khmer Rouge).

Finally I decided to put the pictures because, although I had heard of the Khmer Rouge, Pol Pot and the genocide, did not know how hard it really was...

Human skulls collected from the graves at the killing fields:

Interrogation room at the S-21 prison (a former school):

Pictures of some of the prisoners (women and children as well...):

Some of them would still smile when the pic was taken (unbelievable):

Improvised cells at the S-21 center:

Inside of one of the cells (the blood is still there):

One artist repainted some of the pictures taken to the prisoners:

I decided not to take pictures of the worst examples of cruelty because it is simply too much.

The next entry will be completely different, hopefully great landscape on a boat ride to the born place of the Angkor civilization!!

Kratie

Short one day stop, but great dolphing spotting place and the best sunset so far in my whole trip:

On the boat going to spot dolphins (thanks for the pic, Rihannen):

Irrawaddy Dolphin (Uri got a better picture, will upload it soon):

Our guest house:

The vastness of the Mekong:

Sailing towards the sunset:

Has anybody seen something like this before?:

Fishermen throwing the net:

Tomorrow, if we can get up, will go to Phnom Penh and follow the blood trail of the Khmer Rouge

Ban Lung

Our first contact with the country was not so good (corrupt border guards, 6 hours in the middle of nowhere waiting for a bus), but in the end we had a great day:

A local gas station (very local!):

 Local crazy guy:

 Local bees (taken from the room window):

 Local pig:

Enrica and Maja (dusty faces):

The waterfall:

David under the waterfall:

Dragonfly:

Feeding the elephants:

Uri's mask:

Khmer family:

Bennie talking to the khmer pig:

Khmer kids:

Khmer old man (look at the ears):

The group (left to right: Jana, Laura, Sebastian, Maja, David, Enrica and Uri's shadow):

The crater lake:

And from Ban Lung to Kratie...

Don Khon (4000 Islands)

So, a couple of days of chill out in the last stop in great Laos. The Don Khon island, full chill out...

The view of the Mekong from our guesthouse:

 Local woman:

 The buffalos resting in the water:

The waterfalls at the 4000 Islands:

These are actually mosquitoes!:

Hard days...

Kids fishing:

Sunset trip:

And next entry... Cambodia