Khmer New Year. A trip to the North East corner of Cambodia

Last week was the celbration of the Khmer new year.  Phnom Penh were we live went dead.  All of the people travel back to their city of birth or where their family came from.  Some ares were really crowded and some dead.  All of the mechants and venders raised prices.  We normally pay $12-15 for nice hotel and they got bumped to $25-30.  The Khmer do not see the trash and litter every where.  We ventured into the Mondolkiri and the Rattanackiri areas in NE Cambodia.  They are elevated to about 800 meters and much cooler than the large river basin that makes up most of Cambodia.  There are conifer forest, waterfalls and deep red volcanic soils.

Out on the Mekong River looking for the pink dolfins.  They taste just like chicken.  That is our translator's wife and daughter that we brought along.

Swimming in the Mekong River.  Who was watching for the Crockes?

This is a village set up between islands to relax and have fish heads and rice.

Great place to get cooled off

When the rains start in May they take all this down.

Basaraa Falls

Indiana Jones and Companion

Ahhh. We found the bakery.

O'Sinclair falls with tons of people

Trash

View from Thy Anth Hotel

Our translator's, Seraths, daughter

Great little restaurant called the Geeks Cafe in Rattennackiri.

This liitle fishy went to market

Mekong falls on the Laosian border

That is our trusty steed.  Called a Toyota Forttuner, 2014, diesel, 4 wheel drive, 25 miles to the gallon.  Similar to the forunner sold in the states.  Nice and high off the ground.

This Wat is on a ridge top that separates Cambodia and Tailand.  They have been fighting over it for years.  There are gun placesment and machine gun nets on both sides of the ridge.

Jen doing a little target practicing

11 century Hindu Wat.

Hindu Baptismal Font.

Looks like red Daffodils.