Village Life

To get a look at daily life in the countryside, we took a fascinating tour with a quirky older American man from Michigan who has lived in Siem Reap for 20 years. His organization, Bees Unlimited, focuses on helping Cambodians raise bees in a more sustainable way. He also runs tours to the villages where he works, giving visitors a chance to meet rural families and see a wide range of traditional products being made. The day we went, we saw people making noodles, palm sugar, tofu, baskets, fish traps, and sticks of incense and practicing a traditional Cambodian therapy in which hot glass bowls are applied to the skin to draw out illnesses and bad humors. Melissa said it felt pretty good.