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                <title>Lake Tonle Sap</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Apart from visiting the Angkor Wat temple complex, a boat trip on lake Tonle Sap is a pleasant and worthwhile experience: seeing how the Vietnamese boat refugees have adapted to life on the lake, admiring local children paddling in canoes with awesome speed to and from school, watching swarms of caged baby sharks caught by local fishermen and, in general, gaining insights into how the local community depends on the lake for its livelihood.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Boat trip on Tonle Sap lake</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Take a car or tuk tuk to the boat landing on Tonle Sap lake. The road journey gives a flavour of rural Cambodia with palm thatched houses on stilts and rice paddies. The boat trip (about $10)takes you out onto Tonle Sap where the fishermen live on floating houses which are moved to follow the water as the lake shrinks during the dry season to one quarter of its wet season size. Everything floats, houses, schools, a church, pigs and vegetable patches on their own little rafts and Vietnamese children paddling frantically in bathtubs!<br><br>My own preference is to take a local guide and driver so that you can combine the boat trip with other visits such as the silk farm.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Taking the boat from Siem Riep to Battambang</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[This is only a journey for people with time on their hands - it was supposed to take three hours but took nine. But it is a real experience. The river takes you through countless villages literally built right on it - floating pig sties and huts, children picking up groceries on tiny canoes, people fishing - it is amazing. The boat drivers’ steering can be a bit haphazard at times to say the least, and it's not the most comfortable boat, but this is a journey you won't forget in a hurry. Take sunscreen and a camera.]]></description>
                
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