The last few days

(Floating village on Tonle Sap)

On Tuesday we had a lazy morning going to the post office and shopping in the market before taking a tour of the lake Tonle Sap. We tuk-tuked to the lake with our guide and then got on a boat that took us out to a floating village. The village we saw moves 5-6 times a year depending on the season/conditions (needing protection from weather, to get away from their trash, different area to fish from...).  The water was very brown in the main body of the lake, and Michael asked our guide if the water changed color in the dry season. Our guide said that the water color stayed the same in the lake, but got darker and dirtier near the village the longer it was in one spot.  Not that we have been eating a whole lot of seafood but seeing the color of the lake definitely made me want to stick to chicken. 

(Me at the floating village on Tonle Sap)

Wednesday I woke up with a headache so we went to the spa where we got messages and I got a facial. The afternoon was spent being lazy on the balcony. In some ways being here for 9 days seems like way too much. We could have been done in 5 days and felt like we saw enough; but it was nice being able to have a completely lazy day and not felt like the day was wasted. 

(Phnom Bakheng)

Yesterday we did half of the walking tour of Siem Reap that is in my pocket sized Lonely Planet guide book. We saw Wat Preah Inkosei. We haven't gone into any active Wats because there is a 16 day ceremony type thing going on. I haven't fully caught on to what is happening other than a monk is being recorded and you can hear him when we go by any active Wat. From there we walked to an art gallery, and had our most expensive drinks at  FCC($3.50 for a cafe frappe!). The afternoon was spent by the pool before we headed to to the Wat Phnom Bakheng to see the sunset.  The sunset was even more anticlimactic than the sunrise we saw. 

(Sunset with a little help from the "sunset" mode)

Today we will pack our stuff, eat the last few things I really want to eat, do our last shopping at the markets, and then fly to Seoul at 11:40pm. We will spend ~11 hours in Seoul and, hopefully, take some sort of tour of Seoul before heading home. 

(We have seen quite a few people taking pictures with their iPads!)