Wandering north of Kratie, toward the border with Lao, we saw how palm sugar is made. Similar to India, the female palm tree flower stamens, which are about two feet long, are tapped for their "juice", which resembles watery milk. The juice is then boiled down over a very hot fire for about three hours. In the heat of Cambodia. Hmmmmm.... The boiled down mixture is then churned into a paddle bowl type affair and the final product is scraped into five gallon buckets and sold in the market. These folks get about one dollar per kilo and make about 30 kilos per day.
The Ice Man Cometh in Cambodia. The ice is sawn into sections and then loaded on scooters for retail sales out in the villages or carried directly into the market to ice fish, produce, or drinks.
Playing with turtles at a refuge and breeding center for endangered Cantors Soft-shelled Turtles. This was the resident tortoise, whose favorite food is tomatoes.
Well, its a frog. And it was holding very still. So I took a picture of it.
Hey, its a Cambodian Frog, so its not like a regular frog. For instance, its much more likely to be eaten than a Seattle frog.
OMG. The Ice Blocks!!! I remember when I was little in Korea. It was delivered just like that! That's how we survived the summer season by having 'ice shave' out of that ice. Yummm. :-)
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