It was a bit of a shock to not just be meeting up with Ra after breakfast and heading off somewhere. When we turned up at the hotel reception, we weren't quite sure what to expect. As it was, we were ushered into a tuk-tuk which set off with just the two of us. It turned out that the lake tour, and the afternoon cookery course were both organised through the hotel and its associated tour arm. The tuk-tuk dropped us at their town office where we got into a mini-bus with a guide and 3 other participants.
They were an interesting group. There was an, apparently famous, Bulgarian actor, a French girl living in Cambodia who was helping the film crew from Bulgaria and an Aussie man who had become disenchanted with Perth, left his job and was travelling around looking for somewhere he might want to live.
After stopping at the market, as covered earlier, we moved on to a fishing village on the shore of the lake. The main thing you noticed about the village, was how high the stilts were on which the houses were built. This is because of the huge change in water level that happens between the dry and wet seasons, when the local rainfall is augmented by melting ice from the Himalayas. Hopefully, you can get a sense of this from the pictures below.
After a tour of the village we embarked on one of the boats below to head out to the floating villages.
On the way, we saw many young men fishing.
Everyone also seems to be growing a bit of morning glory, very nice in a soup with beef.
There was lots of other water traffic.
Many doing business.
Eventually, the lake opened up and there were the floating villages.
After a motor round, it was back to the village and return to the hotel for the cooking course, which I'll describe in the next post.
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