So - up early to spend the day with lovely Sally Baughen - the General Manager of Amansara. Our first stop was Wat (temple) Atwear - fifteen minutes drive from the hotel.
Here we were given a water blessing - to cleanse our hearts and souls ... and to bring prosperity in our lives. We had to wear sarongs (and go "commando" for it to work!) ... and we were drenched by a monk. The monk chanted & poured for over ten minutes ... I was worried that he may have misunderstood the ritual ... and I had just been married! Ha! During the civil war, the monk went undercover and became a rice farmer to avoid being executed by Pol Pot's men ...
From there, we drove to Tonle Sap (lake) where we boarded the SS Amansara ... a luxury lake boat - the first & only in Cambodia - for lunch. The lake is enormous and swells to 3 times its size and height during the monsoon. There are floating villages here - complete with schools, shops and basketball courts! Even though it is extremely humid in Siam Reap - the breeze from the lake was refreshing ...
The boys spent the afternoon in a helicopter filming while I went for a long with Emma the lovable Pooch around Ankor ...
Song of the Day: Hot in the City - Billy Idol
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PinBVYKQGeM
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The SS Amansara
Tim with the lovely Annie Fine from Helicopters Cambodia ...
