Views of rural Cambodia

From the streets of Phnom Penh Mum and I retired to a home stay in rural Cambodia. Baray is a little dot on the landscape kind of place a couple of hours outside PP, surrounded by rice paddies and not much else. After an interesting share taxi ride there - three of us in the back seat, four in the front, we relaxed for two days as we were shown around by the villagers. The home stay is a community cooperative set up to compliment a craft co-op, and brings in some much needed extra money to the community.

These are just a few of the photos from our time there...

Mum on the back of a motorbike for the first time in her life!

Our transport out to see the sun set.

Bath time at the village well.

Another of our forms of transport around the village.

The cattle on the way back from the fields.

One of the houses in the village.

Me, eating the local desserts. I did turn down the fried crickets!

Relaxing in the hammock - a hard life!

Using my weight to make rice noodles - I was offered a permanent job.

Our accommodation, a cashew nut tree house.