Cambodia trip 23-28 oct (Part 2)

Well the top left is our tour guide, on the top right is one of the person helping out at the Eco Village. The bottom left is some of the Cambodian kids I've make friends with and the bottom right is my so called daughter

Fourth day morning and we would be leaving the Eco village already, it was quite sad to leave the Eco village as I've made so much Cambodian friends over there. But our teacher has give back our phone and I was lucky to take some photos with them and some pictures of the scenery before I leave. After we finish our last breakfast at the Eco Village, we went to another school played tug-of-war, husband and wife and teach them some simple english words while reading story books to them. It was quite hard and awkward while teaching them as they don't really know what your talking at the same time. In the school, I've realized that some of the kids are walking barefooted on the sand and in the classroom, both the sand and the floor was very hot and there were lots of insects, but they are used to this environment and they do not care about it.

 After visiting the school, we went to visit the CDO organization, same thing we make lots of friends again but this time round most of them is around our age. We played some games like splat, AEIOU and others.

But sadly we only could spend about 1-2 hours with the school and the people at the CDO organization there. But I'm still happy to make lots of friends at the school and the CDO organization One of the kids at the CDO organization even give me a bracelet to keep as a memo before I leave. We went to have our dinner and we went to the old market again to do some shopping and buying souvenirs for our family members and our friends. After shopping we went to check in the hotel that we were staying on the first night. We had to sleep earlier as we have to wake up at 3.30am (cambodia time) because some of us want to see the sunrise at the angkor wat. 

Well I was eating nutella while watching a show on TV, with one of my friend at my another friend's room and after that we head to my friend's room and fell asleep at 1.30. I had to wake up at 3am because I wasn't in my own room and I do not want the teacher to catch me, so I only slept for 1 hr and 30 mins.

After seeing the sunrise we went to visit 3 temples. The Elephants and Leper King Terraces, Bayon Complex Temples and the Ta Prohm 

We went to take the Ox cart ride through the local village. It was fun, scary and quite bumpy because theres lots of rocks on the floor. Unfortunately, 3 of my friends had injuries, 1 on the leg, 1 on the face and 1 on the finger. 2 of them were sent to the hospital and it was very lucky that they weren't serious injuries.

As you can see the steps are very steep so we had to take some time going up and coming down the stairs.

Oh that guy in peach shirt is my another tour guide in Cambodia! Didn't manage to take a photo with him before I leave though.

After visiting the temples we went to the old market for shopping again and to settle some things before heading towards a local restaurant. While we were eating in the restaurant we manage to see some of the performances over there.

Half of us chose to the other go back to the hotel to rest while half of us chose to go to the night market for shopping again after our dinner 

It was the last night in Cambodia for us so all of us decided to stay awake all night and "party" but end up almost everyone's asleep except for me and my other 3 friends while waiting for my teacher to stop patrolling around our corridor. Well Talia got a cold and she didn't get to sleep the previous night so she fell asleep right after she ate the medicine that I gave her. After my teacher went back to his room and sleep, me and the other 2 of my friends came out of our room and went up to 2nd floor to find my friend and play cards in his room. The 4 of us played cards together but they only play till around 1.45 - 2am and they say they want to go back to their rooms. Well after I went back to my room I didn't fall asleep till like around 2.45am? We had to wake up at 6am and  finish packing our luggage and go downstairs and have our breakfast before heading off to airport at 8am. 

Well, I somehow did a right choice to come Cambodia because I can experience how the people live in Cambodia and try out their food. We might have some issues here and there but still all of us had fun together. Until now I still miss the fun I had at Cambodia and the Cambodia people I've made friends with, how I wish the group of us can go back to Cambodia together again for a Cambodia trip part 2 soon! 

Cambodia Trip 23-28 oct (Part 1)

Well I have to apologize for the blur pictures as some of the pictures I got it from internet and some of the pictures that we took was quite rushing. On 23 oct 2014, we went to Cambodia for our Values In Action programme. Our flight wasn't 1 way so we stopped by Vietnam before heading off to Cambodia, Siem Reap. The timing over there is 1 hour behind Singapore and I realize that over there when the time is just only 5+ the sky is already starting to get dark and over there's 8pm is like Singapore's 11+pm 12am

The lady over there in green, her name is Diyana and she is one of the cutest and friendliest air stewardess I've ever met but sadly the photo is quite blur because we had to rush.

We reached there at 5.40 (Cambodia time), and we actually have to wait for about 15-30 minutes for the staff to help us collect our school's banner because one of my friend left it on the plane. After taking the banner we went to a Restaurant called Rainbow Restaurant for dinner and after that we went to a mall called Lucky Mall to buy some biscuits and drinks for the next few days in Cambodia. Right after we finish shopping around the Lucky Mall we went to the Smiling Angkor Hotel and that's the hotel that we would be staying for the night. Well I was lucky that my roommate was Talia because I will be feeling damn awkward if someone else is my roommate.

Because its the first night, most of us couldn't sleep so we went to do some crazy things like banging the door and the boys standing outside the room and singing their poem until 1+ 2am before all of us fall asleep 

So the next morning we had to wake up at 5+ and go down and have our breakfast and then head towards the Mechrey Natural Tourism, Angkor National Museum and the Eco village. Sadly, the teachers had confiscated our phone so we couldn't take much photos. 

We went to the Mechrey Natural Tourism which is located at the Peam Ta Our Village. Over here we can discover the way of living of people at the floating village, we manage to see how the kids over there go to school by travelling on a boat, and we also manage to see Crocodiles and fishes at the Crocodile farm. 

While we are on our way towards the crocodile farm we saw this girl holding a snake around her neck. All of us was afraid to go near her as she and her mother approach us and try to let us take a photo and touch the snake.

After visiting the floating village, we went to the Angkor National Museum, well to be honest we didn't manage to learn much things because all of us wasn't really interested in learning we just walk one big round and see all those statues and all.

After visiting the Museum, we went to have lunch. And right after lunch we went to shop around at the old market and then we went to the Eco village. Everyone in the bus was quite afraid when they see the road and houses because we would be staying in this village for 3 days 2 night. 

When we reach there and settle down already, we learn how to make bamboo rice and we had Cambodia's food for dinner. Well I couldn't find the bamboo rice stick that I make it so I ended up eating someone's else instead and it was quite hard and dry but after all is still nice and good experience for me

 

After enjoying our dinner all of us went back to our respective rooms and the sky was so dark so all of us had to go together.

The next morning, we woke up early for a jog/walk around the eco villae before having our breakfast. And after our breakfast we went to visit the kids at the school and just nice we would be building a road for them in the afternoon. Right after visiting the school, we build a water pump for one of the villager's house and we have to make a road made of soil for the kids to go to school. It was very tiring for some of us because we had to carry the soil from one place to the villager's house. Some of us managed to make friends with the villager's daughter. The villager has 2 daughters and i treat the oldest one as my own daughter though... Seeing her smile just brighten's up my day. After building the water pump we went to have lunch and after that we went to build the road for the kids. It was tiring too as we have to carry the soil again. But after struggling for 15-30 minutes we did a relay instead, passing to one another at a point which is way much more easier for all of us.

We went to make lantern after we build the road with our different groups. Its the first time I make it though, and we went to see our lantern fly up after our dinner. And after seeing our lantern fly up all of us went back to our room to get some sleep