Ankor Ruins

We had a very difficult 'Jeep' Trail 33kms long through the Cambodian jungle yesterday, here Tom and Rosalie Gatsonidies tackle a typical bit of the trail

Simon and Andrew came across these two lads whose moped had broken down, not only did they give them a lift for 20kms they then gave them $20 to get the thing fixed when they got to their village. They had great difficulty getting round the tree stump on the right, so did we, it was very narrow.

It took us two hours to do 18 miles on this route, sometimes you just didn't know where the road went.

Today ,Saturday we visited an amazing fishing village on the borders of a huge lake. The variation between the level in the rainy season and the dry season ( now) is twenty metres, so all the houses are built on stilts. The community is 20,000 strong and subsists on fishing in the lake.

We took a boat trip in a wooden boat, here we are passing under a bridge.

This was a truck, stuck on a bridge which had given way under its weight, this is a Cambodian made truck!! They had got it out by the time we came back. The black stuff is the engine oil

Happy families Cambodian style

Drying the fish they catch prior to smoking them. Hygiene is of the highest priority!!

Ankor Temple at Siem Riep, the jungle took over and covered these ruins until Victorian times when they were re discovered. Amazing place, show this to your dentist if he really wants to see some good root work!

800yrs old and doesn't look a day over 50!