For our remaining couple of days in siem reap we visited a really interesting silk farm, where we watched the process of the worms producing the silk all the way to the factory workers weaving. This is the sort of thing you never imagine how much work goes into making the scarves we buy from the shops back home. Our last day we spent relaxing at a local swimming pool and then in the evening went out for a meal (including our first taste of frog) and farewell drinks with Michael.
Posledncich par dni stravenych v Siem Reapu jsme jeste meli prilezitost navstivit farmu na vyrobu hedvabi. Videli jsme cely proces od cerviku, kteri se laduji zelenymi listy a jak jsme pozdeji zjistili, podle toho jake listy ji, takovou barvu hedvabi vyrabi. V Kambodzi cervici vyrabi zlutou barvu hedvabi, ktere se potom musi vybelit a bud chemicky nebo prirodne obarvit..(na prirodni barveni treba pouzivaji - bananove listy, kuru ze stromu nebo barevne kvetiny a zajimavosti bylo, ze kdyz k nekterym z nich pridaji rezavy hrebik dostanou jiny odstin). Bylo to hodne zajimave. Je fakt, ze kdyz doma nakupuji a hazim veci do kosiku ani se nepozastavim nad tim, jak pracne je utkat 1 metr latky. Pote jsme byli zavedeni do obchodu, ktery byl opravdovy raj pro oci. Nas posledni den jsme stravili v bazenu jednoho z hotelu a sesli se s nasim kamaradem Michaelem na par drinku.
The next morning we were taken by mini bus (which included 3 plastic seats from the local restaurant in the aisle for extra passengers) to our boat which would take us down through the Tonle Sap lake to Phnom Penh. The journey wasn’t great, the boat was going very fast and it was so loud, it was hard to really take in much of the scenery. When we arrived in Phnom Penh we checked into Okay Guesthouse and explored a little of the city. We went to see Wat Phnom and the fat monkeys and although it wasn’t the most exciting place we’ve been, it was where we met Saran who’d become our tuk tuk driver for the following days trip to the infamous Killing Fields and the S-21 Prison. This was something neither of us were looking forward to but is a “must do” part of any trip to Cambodia in order to see the horrors the people had to go through and helps give an understanding to a lot of the social and economic problems Cambodia faces today (There has been a fair bit about some of the things that went on in the news lately as they are currently running a trial for some of the Khmer Rouge leaders). It proved quite an emotional day, at one point I found myself watching tourists like ourselves slowly walking around mouths open, it created an eerie quiet that I‘d never been part of before.
Dalsi rano nas vyzvedl mini autobus (kde ridic po ceste musel pridat 3 plastikove zidlicky z poulicni restaurace, protoze neodhadli pocet pasazeru), aby nas dovezl do pristavu odkud nam plula rychlo lod do Phnom Penhu. Cesta lodi nebyla zrovna jak jsme si predstavovali. Rychla byla to jo, ale taky tak hlucna, ze vlastne prehlucila vsechnu okolni krasu prirody a jezera Tonle Sap. Po prijezdu do Phnom Penh jsme se ubytovali v Okay Hostelu, a potom vyrazili prozkoumat ulice Phnom Penhu. Nechali jsme se zavest k jednomu parku pobliz s malym chramem na kopci. Nebyl to jeden z nejuzasnejsich chramu, co jsme videli, ale meli tam i tluste opice,,, no spise tehotne. Nez jsme opousteli misto, potkali jsme Sarana, coz byl nas tuk tuk ridic na zitrejsi vylet. Ani jeden z nas se na tento vylet netesil, protoze jsme se jeli podivat na Smrtici pole a byvalou skolu pod nazvem S-21. Je to skoro ale "povinnost", aby turista v Kambodzi videl to utpeni a hruzy, co se tam deli, aby pochopil, proc je socialni a ekonomicky zivot takovy jaky je. Byl to hodne emocionalni den pro oba. Prochazet kolem pomalu a tise a sledovat ostatni lidi, kteri pocituji tu samou litost. Misto vyvolalo velice smutnou a krutou atmosferu, kdy clovek pocituje malou vnitrni nevolnost. Pro vice informaci si muzete precist tento clanek.
The following day we took a walk to the grand palace only to find that the king was there and it was closed to the public. We coud only visit the silver pagoda area so spent an hour or so there and went to the national museum. We booked to start our journey to Vietnam for the following day, but that evening, out of nowhere, we found an extra day! What a bonus, and very lucky we discovered it back at the guesthouse and not as we were crossing the boarder. We decided that we’d use the extra day to see the parts of the palace that were closed the day before, but to be honest it was a real let down. We’d expected to walk around royal gardens etc but it turned out just to be a couple of extra buildings with not a great deal to see. We got an early night before our 3 day tour across to Vietnam, into the Mekong Delta and then up to Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City) . . .
Nasledujici den jsme se vydali navstivit Grand Palac, kde jsme zjistili, ze kral je zrovna na navsteve a tak byla verejnosti umoznena jen prohlidka Stribrne pagody, ktera se stavala s mnoha malych krasnych chramu. Prosli jsme to asi za hodinu a pak se vydali do narodniho muzea. Ten den jsme si taky rezervovali listek na dalsi den, odjezd smer Vietnam, aby jsme pozdeji vecer zjistili, ze jsme v kalendari nasli jeden den navic... Jaky bonus! Nastesti jsme to zjistili vecer pred tim, ponevadz by nam nebyl umoznen vstup do zeme po dalsich 24 hodin. Protoze jsme nasli tenhle bonusovy den, rikali jsme si, ze ho vyuzijeme ke zbytu prohlidce Grand Palace, kde jsou krasne zahrady. Jake zklamani, kdyz jsme zjistili, ze Grand Palac je jedna budova navic a na zahrady nema verejnost pristup! Ten vecer jsme zalehli brzo, protoze nas dalsi den ceka 3 denni vylet po rece Mekong smerujici do Saigonu (Hociminova Mesta)... Pokracovani priste...
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