Today we had a tour guide that I booked specifically so we could see the Irawaddy River Dolphins in the Mekong River. Our day included some other stops and I'm really glad we booked this tour. We rode in a tuk-tuk through some rural areas and made some interesting stops that we never would have done on our own. (Our guide followed us in his motorcycle.)
Our view of the market at breakfast. We ate at a restaurant run by a European expat and it was a good start to our day.
Bread flower.
Even tuk-tuks need to stop and get gas.
Sticky rice in bamboo sticks; a traditional Khmer snack. These were really tasty and since they're sealed off with coconut, you can bring them with you and eat them later. Henry wanted to keep his intact and hoard the bamboo to send to the pandas in China. It was very difficult to reason with him on this topic.
Climbing the steps to Phnom Sambok.
Back on the road heading toward our next stop.
Helmets for the kids!
Making palm sugar.
Lunch with a view of the Mekong. Our lunch was great since we could explain to our guide what we were interested in and he could tell us what was in each of the dishes.
100 Pillars Pagoda.
Mekong Turtle Conservation Centre.
Soft-shelled turtles.
Our boat for the Irawaddy River Dolphin tour.
I didn't get any good shots of the dolphins (you can see one in this photo).
Sarah was pleased with our dolphin-sightings and as the resident dolphin-lover, that's all I could ask for!
That's our tour guide answering some of our questions and he was asking us some things about the USA.
Almost all of the houses had the year it was built on the rooftop (sometimes this decoration was terribly ornate while the house was barely hanging together.
