Hope you have enjoyed our blogging and we will see you all very soon.
Lots of love from
Glen and Rhonda xoxo
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Friday, February 17, 2012
Canada Bound !!!!
Well this s the final post, no pics, just to say we have had the most amazing trip and have seen and done so many things. We left Cambodia yesterday and we are at our Friends in Kuala Lumpur right now. We board the first leg of our flight home in a few hours to Hong Kong then onwards to Vancouver.
Hope you have enjoyed our blogging and we will see you all very soon.
Lots of love from
Glen and Rhonda xoxo
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Hope you have enjoyed our blogging and we will see you all very soon.
Lots of love from
Glen and Rhonda xoxo
- Posted using BlogPress from my iPad
Balloon Riding and opium pizza
So this is our last 2 days in Cambodia. After a very lazy day by the pool we head out for supper. On one of the dark back streets we find a few pizza places that have a range of pizzas. We can get cheese with hashish, cheese with opium, cheese with magic mushrooms, cheese with other weird Asian mind blowing "herbs". We stop and have a beer here just to people watch. These places are full of young backpackers who walk in sober and "float" out laughing, giggling and swaying. We decide it might be best if we don't eat here lol.
We find a nice roadside BBQ restaurant and tuck into BBQ chicken, ribs and giant prawns instead.
Back at the hotel we take pics of the night bar staff who have been looking after us so well. Every time we walk through the front door of our hotel a staff member opens it for us and hands us an ice cold facecloth each to wipe down , so lovely.
The next day is our last day here so we start with breaky and get pics of our daytime staff.
Our full time tuk tuk driver is waiting outside for us as usual.
Today we decide to take a balloon ride over Angkor Wat so e can get some aerial pics. Our driver whisks us off to the balloon landing site and we buy tickets and climb aboard. Off we go floating high up into the sky. Rhonda is so scared she holds on for dear life. As we get higher it gets very hazy so the pics of Angkor are not great but the balloon ride is a great experience.
We then head off to a silk farm, factory where they raise silk worms, harvest the silk and weave silk cloth. Silk worms eat mulberry leaves so they grow acres of it here.
They collect silkworm eggs.
The eggs hatch into tiny worms which have to be fed leaves for 2 days.
After 2 days they have grown over 100 times there size. For the 3rd day they are eating 3 big leaves each.
On day 4 they spin their cocoons which they make by spinning silk thread out of their mouths. Each cocoon has a single unbroken length of thread that is about 200m long.
The cocoons are collected and go into the raving factory. They are out in boiling water, the worm dies, the women find the end of the thread of each cocoon and unwind it onto a spool. Now we have silk thread.
Next the silk threads are combined into 6 to make a thicker thread.
The raw silk is still yellow like the cocoon.
The raw silk is died white and pounded with wood mallets to make it soft.
Threads are died into different colors ready for weaving.
Ladies weave silk cloth by hand. It takes 8 days to make one 6ft length of silk cloth. They work 12 hours a day doing this wow !
Tomorrow we fly at 8am back to Malaysia the night then he next day home to Canada.
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We find a nice roadside BBQ restaurant and tuck into BBQ chicken, ribs and giant prawns instead.
Back at the hotel we take pics of the night bar staff who have been looking after us so well. Every time we walk through the front door of our hotel a staff member opens it for us and hands us an ice cold facecloth each to wipe down , so lovely.
The next day is our last day here so we start with breaky and get pics of our daytime staff.
Our full time tuk tuk driver is waiting outside for us as usual.
Today we decide to take a balloon ride over Angkor Wat so e can get some aerial pics. Our driver whisks us off to the balloon landing site and we buy tickets and climb aboard. Off we go floating high up into the sky. Rhonda is so scared she holds on for dear life. As we get higher it gets very hazy so the pics of Angkor are not great but the balloon ride is a great experience.
We then head off to a silk farm, factory where they raise silk worms, harvest the silk and weave silk cloth. Silk worms eat mulberry leaves so they grow acres of it here.
They collect silkworm eggs.
The eggs hatch into tiny worms which have to be fed leaves for 2 days.
After 2 days they have grown over 100 times there size. For the 3rd day they are eating 3 big leaves each.
On day 4 they spin their cocoons which they make by spinning silk thread out of their mouths. Each cocoon has a single unbroken length of thread that is about 200m long.
The cocoons are collected and go into the raving factory. They are out in boiling water, the worm dies, the women find the end of the thread of each cocoon and unwind it onto a spool. Now we have silk thread.
Next the silk threads are combined into 6 to make a thicker thread.
The raw silk is still yellow like the cocoon.
The raw silk is died white and pounded with wood mallets to make it soft.
Threads are died into different colors ready for weaving.
Ladies weave silk cloth by hand. It takes 8 days to make one 6ft length of silk cloth. They work 12 hours a day doing this wow !
Tomorrow we fly at 8am back to Malaysia the night then he next day home to Canada.
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Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Angkor Wot - A thousand years back in time
Valentines day xoxo
After a romantic breakfast by the pool we are heading to visit Angkor Wat. A brief history is that Angkor Wot was built almost a thousand years ago as a royal city where the king and royals lived. The city is made up of about 10 massive temples and a royal palace and is spread over 400 acres of what was jungle. These buildings are now a protected world heritage site and they are the biggest buildings in the world of this age. The king ruled most of south Asia from this site for many hundreds of years. The biggest mystery is how did these ancient people transport so many huge chunks of solid rock into the middle of the jungle to build the temples. And with no machinery how were such huge, tall buildings built. The temples were abandoned many hundreds of years ago and were left to deteriorate to their current state. Cambodia is now restoring all of the temples but the project has already been going for over 100 years and they have hardly touched the surface. We have hired a tuk tuk for the day to take us around. We first visit what is basically a large outdoor swimming pool that was used by the king, like everything in Angkor it is huge beyond belief.
We next visit one of the smaller temples but it is still huge and takes an hour to walk through.
Next we visit one of the larger sites. In here there are exotic trees that have taken root on the actual buildings and the roots are trailing down the walls to the ground.
The walls of the temples are 100% covered in the most tiny, intricate decorative carvings. These places took hundreds of years to build and hundreds of thousands of workers and slaves died while constructing them.
We visit one temple that is much higher than all the others and we have to climb hundreds of steep stone stairs in the blistering heat to reach the top. Coming back down was very scary.
We end the tour at the royal Palace of Angkor Wat and the architecture here is unbelievable. The palace is gigantic and every square inch of the stone walls is carved so finely. Inside the palace we see where the royals had numerous indoor water pools for swimming and bathing.
It is very difficult to show these amazing structures in a few photos but this is one of the most amazing sites in the world for sure.
Ok been walking for 9 hours now back to the pool, then a well deserved massage before dinner ahhhhhh,
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After a romantic breakfast by the pool we are heading to visit Angkor Wat. A brief history is that Angkor Wot was built almost a thousand years ago as a royal city where the king and royals lived. The city is made up of about 10 massive temples and a royal palace and is spread over 400 acres of what was jungle. These buildings are now a protected world heritage site and they are the biggest buildings in the world of this age. The king ruled most of south Asia from this site for many hundreds of years. The biggest mystery is how did these ancient people transport so many huge chunks of solid rock into the middle of the jungle to build the temples. And with no machinery how were such huge, tall buildings built. The temples were abandoned many hundreds of years ago and were left to deteriorate to their current state. Cambodia is now restoring all of the temples but the project has already been going for over 100 years and they have hardly touched the surface. We have hired a tuk tuk for the day to take us around. We first visit what is basically a large outdoor swimming pool that was used by the king, like everything in Angkor it is huge beyond belief.
We next visit one of the smaller temples but it is still huge and takes an hour to walk through.
Next we visit one of the larger sites. In here there are exotic trees that have taken root on the actual buildings and the roots are trailing down the walls to the ground.
The walls of the temples are 100% covered in the most tiny, intricate decorative carvings. These places took hundreds of years to build and hundreds of thousands of workers and slaves died while constructing them.
We visit one temple that is much higher than all the others and we have to climb hundreds of steep stone stairs in the blistering heat to reach the top. Coming back down was very scary.
We end the tour at the royal Palace of Angkor Wat and the architecture here is unbelievable. The palace is gigantic and every square inch of the stone walls is carved so finely. Inside the palace we see where the royals had numerous indoor water pools for swimming and bathing.
It is very difficult to show these amazing structures in a few photos but this is one of the most amazing sites in the world for sure.
Ok been walking for 9 hours now back to the pool, then a well deserved massage before dinner ahhhhhh,
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