Continuing my boat trip to Siem Reap (the beginning) - still in the narrower part of the river.

Photo:  Boat trip: Battambang to Siem Reap, Cambodia → It's 10 am, but the sun is already picking up. The river is narrow and we are maneuvering quite slow. There will be a few more brushes with the shore, I am sure.

Photo:  Boat trip: Battambang to Siem Reap, Cambodia → There is nothing for a while, just the river, the bushes, and our boat.

Photo:  Boat trip: Battambang to Siem Reap, Cambodia → Then a fishing net, a huge one on a crane like construction.

Photo:  Boat trip: Battambang to Siem Reap, Cambodia → There were again some people on the boats.

Photo:  Boat trip: Battambang to Siem Reap, Cambodia → And this happy friendly little girl on one of them. I think she lives there.

Photo:  Boat trip: Battambang to Siem Reap, Cambodia → Another crane. Here it's easy to see how it's made. It's mobile, and they clear a square on the rever removing the floating plans, move the crane there and fish. Or they do it right on the river, like here.

Photo:  Boat trip: Battambang to Siem Reap, Cambodia → I think we are approaching a floating village.

Photo:  Boat trip: Battambang to Siem Reap, Cambodia → A girl waving to us. I've been surprised how many children live on or by the river.

Photo:  Boat trip: Battambang to Siem Reap, Cambodia → Yes, there are definitely more boats as we go further.

Photo:  Boat trip: Battambang to Siem Reap, Cambodia → Another child on a boat.

Photo:  Boat trip: Battambang to Siem Reap, Cambodia → Seems like there will be not just boats, but also houses.

Photo:  Boat trip: Battambang to Siem Reap, Cambodia →

Photo:  Boat trip: Battambang to Siem Reap, Cambodia →

Photo:  Boat trip: Battambang to Siem Reap, Cambodia → Complete household on the river: the house and the boat.

Photo:  Boat trip: Battambang to Siem Reap, Cambodia → And one of the occupants.

Photo:  Boat trip: Battambang to Siem Reap, Cambodia → A little Cambodian 'insect', haha Very happy! The children here are so friendly.

Photo:  Boat trip: Battambang to Siem Reap, Cambodia → Daily chores.

Photo:  Boat trip: Battambang to Siem Reap, Cambodia → Another local girl. Somehow there were more gorls than boys on the boats. Perhaps the boys are somewhere out there on small boats, picking up their daily catch of fish as I have seen them do it.

Photo:  Boat trip: Battambang to Siem Reap, Cambodia → This is where the girls was standing.

Photo:  Boat trip: Battambang to Siem Reap, Cambodia → There are some trees growing in the middle of the river. This reminds a little of one part of Amazon, although it was there on much larger scale.

Photo:  Boat trip: Battambang to Siem Reap, Cambodia → We had our propeller stuck at one point. First they tried to spin it and free it.

Photo:  Boat trip: Battambang to Siem Reap, Cambodia → With no results, one of the crew went to untangle it.

Photo:  Boat trip: Battambang to Siem Reap, Cambodia → Back on our way, we are passing more inhabitants.

Photo:  Boat trip: Battambang to Siem Reap, Cambodia → Here they are a little closer.

Photo:  Boat trip: Battambang to Siem Reap, Cambodia → This time a little boy. I guess to small for fishing.

Photo:  Boat trip: Battambang to Siem Reap, Cambodia → Soon we saw lots of houses, a similar scenery as at the beginning of the trip.

Photo:  Boat trip: Battambang to Siem Reap, Cambodia → Loading things on the boat.

Photo:  Boat trip: Battambang to Siem Reap, Cambodia → Moving through areas occupied by people with a bit more modern houses here.

Photo:  Boat trip: Battambang to Siem Reap, Cambodia → There was even a TV tower..

Photo:  Boat trip: Battambang to Siem Reap, Cambodia → Local a bit shy girls happy to see a bunch of white faces.

Photo:  Boat trip: Battambang to Siem Reap, Cambodia → Soon we are ahead of them.

Photo:  Boat trip: Battambang to Siem Reap, Cambodia → We stopped for food, and here is our boat when getting back on it. It's 11:16.

Photo:  Boat trip: Battambang to Siem Reap, Cambodia → Another photo from our luch area - two people onn a boat.

Photo:  Boat trip: Battambang to Siem Reap, Cambodia → Going home.

Photo:  Boat trip: Battambang to Siem Reap, Cambodia → I think this was one the last house I saw. There were later some more, here and there, but I've already shot so many photos that I decided to rest insted. I would be taking more, but it was not easy without the autofocus. I went to sleep for a while, opening they eyes from time to time watching the scenery pass by.

Photo:  Boat trip: Battambang to Siem Reap, Cambodia → 13:45. Two hours later and what a change in scenery. We are on the open water, moving fast. But that's onon the next page