As today is our last full day, Fr Totet and a few staff working at the presbytery took us to one of Cambodia’s heritage sites, Phnom Kulen. It is a set of waterfalls up on a mountain, about 2 hours from Siem Reap and it is beautiful.
There are two smaller pools before the main waterfall and they’re all so gorgeous. When we arrived we went and swam in the main pool under the waterfall which actually wasn’t that cold. The power from the water was amazing and it gave a very good massage when you sat on the rocks below the ridge. The was also a little incroft so that you could stick your head and torso under and watch the scene through the water. Philippa and Toeun also climbed up higher to reach just above the rocks so that they were completely under ridge of the waterfall and said looking up and out was incredible.
After lunch, which was a picnic Khmer style, we all had a siesta and another walk around before packing up for the day. On the way home they took us to a small river in the mountain which has carvings running down it in parts. This was done to show the Kings power and goes quite a way down the river.
We arrived back in time for English Mass and then went out for dinner afterwards. We had planned to meet a few others from church to go around a product exhibition that they’d seen advertised however when we went looking for this exhibition, we couldn’t find it anywhere and no one we asked had any idea either. So instead we went around the night market that we actually hadn’t done yet which was a lovely end to a lovely day.
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