Traveling
  • 2018 Europe XXVII
    • Day 1 - Arrival in Luzern
    • Day 2 - Luzern
    • Day 3 - Bern
    • Day 4 - Last Day in Bern
  • 2015 Round the World (Pages in Progress)
    • 2015 Cuzco, Peru
    • 2015 Sacred Valley
    • 2015 Machu Picchu
    • 2015 To the Rain Forrest
    • 2015 Cayman Lodge #OffTheGrid
    • 2015 Rain Forest - Day 1
    • 2015 Rain Forest - Day 2
    • 2015 Lima, Peru
    • 2015 Berlin
    • 2015 Warsaw, Poland
    • 2015 Krakow, Poland
    • 2015 Ho Chi Minh City - Day 1
    • 2015 Ho Chi Minh City - Day 2
    • 2015 Bus Ride to Cambodia
    • 2015 Phnom Penh
    • 2015 Floating City, Cambodia
    • 2015 Angkor Wat - Siem Reap, Cambodia
    • 2015 Angkor Wat - Sunrise
    • 2015 - Battambang, Cambodia
    • 2015 - Bangkok, Thailand
    • 2015 - New Zealand Bike Tour - Days 1 and 2
  • August 2015 Europe (in progress)
    • Day 2 - Leipzig, Saxony, Germany
  • Brazil - World Cup 2014
    • Argentina vs Swiss 2014 World Cup
    • Santos - The Lifeguard Study
    • Sao Paulo
    • More Santos and the BBQ
  • 2015 Birchwood Henderson Bicycle Race
    • 2015 Birchwood Henderson Bike Race - Morning Session
    • 2015 Birchwood Henderson Bike Race - Afternoon Session
  • Africa Trip - February 2013
    • 2013 Days 15 and 16 Zanzibar
    • 2013 Day 14 Safari Ends
    • 2013 Day 13 Tarangire
    • 2013 Day 12 Ngorongoro
    • 2013 Day 11 Serengeti to Ngorongoro
    • 2013 Day 10 Serengeti
    • 2013 Day 9 - Drive to Serengeti
    • 2013 Day 8 - First Day on Safari
    • 2013 Days 5, 6 and 7
    • 2013 Day 4 Cape Town
    • 2013 Day 3 Cape Town
  • 2014 New Zealand - North Island
    • Auckland
    • The Drive to Napier
  • 2013 Baltic Countries
    • 2013 Valnius
    • 2013 Riga, Latvia
    • 2013 Tallinn, Estonia
    • 2013 Tartu, Estonia
    • 2013 Stockholm
  • Barcelona - April 2013
    • Dali Museum
    • Futbol Club Barcelona
  • Nature Valley Grand Prix - Stillwater, MN 16 June 2013
  • 2001
  • Misc. Minneapolis
  • 2014 Red Bull Crashed Ice
  • Birchwood Team 2016
Tuesday (March 10th) we took an 11 hour bus ride from Phnom Pehn to Siem Reap. Siem Reap is the point for visiting Angkor Wat and other nearby temples.

On our way to Seim Reap, we stopped for lunch at a silk farm and a floating city. The floating city might more accurately be described as a city built on stilts so that everything doesn’t get flooded out during the monsoon season.

The silk farm is owned by a retired American who came to Cambodia to work for an NGO that provided prosthesis to people who had lost limbs during the wars. Big problem was that the recipients didn’t know how to do anything other than beg and would throw away the prosthesis and return to begging. He also had worked for an organization that provided training and jobs as silk spinners and weavers. When that NGO closed he bought some property and started doing essentially the same thing on his own. A frightening part is that he said that his weavers, young women paid piece work, can make $150 or so each month working for him but if they worked in the garment factories in Phnom Penh would make about $45 per month for working a 6 day week (think about that the next time you buy cheap stuff at Target or similar)

The floating village is primarily a fishing community, fresh water clams being a primary catch. Rice and beans are farmed nearby.
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