Created on Saturday, 01/12/2008 11:33 AM by Leonard De Rooy
Tomorrow morning, we leave for PhnomPenn, the capitol of Cambodia. It should be a 6 hour bus ride. We hope to worship in the ICF church in the afternoon.
During our stay in PP, we hope to do the following things:
-visit with Navy Chann and others at CRWRC
-visit the killing fields and SR21
-visit an orphanage
-visit some of the commune farms that CRWRC have been working with.
-visit several NGO's.
-some of the students will be working with Doctors without borders
We return to Siem Reap on January 21.
We are not sure what our internet access will be like in PP so I'm not sure if we will be able to post pictures.
Regards,
Leonard
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Created on Saturday, 01/12/2008 11:27 AM by Leonard De Rooy
Today we went to visit the ancient temples of Ankor. We broke the big group into 5 smaller groups, each with a tour guide for the day.
This is our group in front of the the Angkor Wat temple.
Just hanging out at the Angkor Wat .....
We met another one of our groups in the Royal Bath area.
Wild monkeys looking for food.
After the dinner show, we were able to have our picture taken by the Angkor dancers.
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Created on Saturday, 01/12/2008 9:15 AM by Unknown User
On Friday night I had supper at the Khmer Kitchen, recommended by a tour book. I had traditional Khmer soup. Eek! It tasted like drinking straight lime juice. So I just worked on the spring rolls ;). Then we had a time of worship together as a large group. The RUL students and more have joined us, making us a group of about 50.
This morning/day we visited one of the seven ancient wonders of the world -the angkor wat temples. They were amazing. Mostly ruins left, but the walls are very intricately decorated and carved. One temple has huge 400 year old trees growing throughout it (it was used in the movies Tombraider). We played tourists today but did enjoy seeing the treasures of Cambodia.
Tonight we were at an all you can eat buffet . . . spells trouble. It was delicious, especially the ice cream which tasted homemade. The dinner was followed by traditional Cambodian dancing. The women and men dressed in elaborate costumes and danced different dances or stories. Cambodian dancing is very particular about hand movements.
Tomorrow we head for Phenom Pen.
Keep praying for us! -Hannah Serfling
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