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June 23, 2011:Sojourn and Treak Village

How we got there - Silk Air MI622 from Changi to Siem Reap

Altitude plot

Altitude plot

Sojourn - our favorite

jun 24 9506 sojourn

The pool: Ellen and Maxwell's favorite

jun 24 9515 inside sojourn

And always the Sojourn team decorates our bed

jun 23 8728 bed welcome

jun 23 8747 our bed

Skipper harvesting

jun 23 8744 skipper harvesting

Off for a walk with Maxwell

jun 23 8762 water buffalo

Bicycle for 2

jun 23 8771 bicycle for 2

The drink stall at Sreynet's home

jun 23 8778 drink stall

Someone pretending to sleep

jun 23 8784 hammock sleeping

Sreynet's sister making something

jun 23 8790 making something

Shaving ice

jun 23 8796 shaving ice

Walking behind the homes we find rice fields

Little ducks

jun 23 8819 little ducks

Ducks in a rice field

jun 23 8822 ducks rice

Chhoy's wife and daughter

jun 23 8824 chhoy wife daughter

A jumping spider eying a fly

jun 23 8838 fly jumper

New rice - so green

jun 23 8908 new rice

At the Wat - was a group of folks with orange tee-shirts. Hmm - Maxwell was wearing an orange tee-shirt. So they wanted a photo with Maxwell. Turns out these are students from Vietnam, helping to restore the temple area

jun 23 8911 vietnam team

With Maxwell

jun 23 8912 vietnam team maxwell

A 1000 year old temple

jun 23 8923 temple

Maxwell and the temple

jun 23 8933 maxwell temple

The temple door

jun 23 8937 temple door

Incense Burning

jun 23 8951 incense burning

Maxwell

jun 23 8954 maxwell

Maxwell in the window

jun 23 8969 maxwell temple window

Trying to capture the smoke from the burning sticks

jun 23 8974 incense smoke

Smoke

jun 23 8975 smoke

Incense smoke

jun 23 8988 incense smoke

Maxwell

jun 23 8996 maxwell

The new temple

jun 23 9008 new temple

Temple objects

jun 23 9032 temple objects

Reflections

jun 23 9035 reflections

Rice field reflections

jun 23 9046 rice field reflections

Grazing

jun 23 9053 grazing

While watching the cow graze - a machine drove by - a machine for finishing the processing of rice

jun 23 9056 rice maker

The rice maker and the people ensemble

jun 23 9070 rice harvest ensemble

Gathering dried rice

jun 23 9074 gather dried rice

Scooping rice

jun 23 9082 scoop rice

Pouring the rice into the rice machine

jun 23 9095 raw rice in

In it goes

jun 23 9076 raw rice in

Processed rice out

jun 23 9147 processed rice out

A closer look

jun 23 9148 processed rice

A handful of rice - its actually quite hot

jun 23 9159 processed rice hand

Making some adjustments

jun 23 9160 adjustments

All the while - rice is pouring out

jun 23 9185 processed rice

More adjustments - the blue pipe blows the rice husk away

jun 23 9213 adjustments

Raw rice

jun 23 9250 raw rice

Being processed

jun 23 9263 processing rice

Making additional adjustments

jun 23 9266 rice machine

From afar

jun 23 9298 rice setting

Sreynet - whose family lives at the corner of Treak Road - above are her sisters

jun 23 9301 sreynet

And Youm. Togehter with Sreynet - they turn down beds in the evening and do cleaning

jun 23 9302 youm

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