25th November - Chhloung Village & Kratie   Geoff Brock & Bruce Gamble
         
     

 
 
 
 

Cruise day 7:
Chhloung Village & Kratie
Saturday 25th November 2017
 

Chhloung Village (with some French colonial buildings) and later, exploring Kratie independently.

 
The landing area near the village of Chhloung.
It was quite a scramble getting up to where the coach was parked!
 
Chhloung Village
 
Our first visit to a Cambodian home
 
 
 
 
 
Sapodilla fruit
 
 
 
 
French colonial building, Chhloung
 
Sugar cane
 
 
 
 
More sapodilla...
 
...tasty!
 
 
 
 
Love the headgear!
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Frying banana crisps
 
 
Chhloung's petrol station
 
Old bus
 
 
French governor's house, now under restoration - by a Frenchman.
 
 
 
We walk carefully back down the steep, rather muddy slope to the ship
 
After lunch we arrived at the port of Kratie. A coach was waiting there to take people further up-river, where they would board small boats and try to spot the famous river dolphins. We decided that it was too hot to spend time on a little boat and that as the prospect of actually seeing the dolphins wasn't that high, we would instead, explore the little town here instead. We were happy with our decision, as we had an interesting walk and when the others returned from the excursion, they reported that they seen the odd dolphin head popping up, but not much more than that.
 
Our last sunset on the ship
 
 
 
 
 
©Geoff Brock and Bruce Gamble