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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.
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