Just Tee: Cambodia Itinerary Day 3 (14th Sept 2015)

[Day 3 Banteay Srei (Ladies Temple) - Kbal Spean (Waterfall) - Landmine Museum - back to Guest house - Pub Street massage!]

8am breakfast at Palm Lodge Guest House, their breakfast is tasty :D

Ladies Temple-Banteay Srei

After breakfast we start our visit about 9am, by tuk tuk. It take about one hour to reach Ladies Temple-Banteay Srei. This temple is a bit far from Town area. The area and the building, include all the decorative wall carvings are miniature in scale. Its being widely praised as a "precious gem", or the "jewel of Khmer art". The building material is mostly red sand stone. I heard a tour guide said this is the temple funded privately by officer, do they build smaller than main temple in Angkor wat to show their respect to king. The carvings here are AWESOME! highly recommend for those who love carving design and art.

这是我们最后一间参观的寺庙，虽然是最远的，但就觉得非常值的。赞叹古人的智慧与耐力，可以雕刻出如此精致的作品。一些甚至与拇指般大小。雕刻的经文虽然没看懂，但却如此的端正。

Crowded of people in the early morning ~.~

A buddha face just as small as my thumb!

Even the wall is full with the script.

Although i can't understand it, but i saw a sun symbol there.

Column

Column -2

Pattern Amoi!

U still can see a lot of stone beside still waiting for rebuild. ps: The viper snake is so cool!!

Heard from tour guide beside me explain to his tourist, this Apsara can be "Asia Monalisa"

Others stone for rebuild.

Kbal Spean - Waterfall

This temple only take about one hour to visit. After this, we depart for the Kbal Spean - Waterfall.

Hiking about 1.5km, please make sure casual wear and sport shoes.

LOL! this stone and tree look like a dinosaur >.<

Landmine museum

1.30 pm depart for next destination: Landmine museum. 5 USD for entrance ticket (include audio tour device) , take about 1.5 hours to visit if you read through all the information in museum. In Cambodia, there still have a lot of places with landmine which haven't explode yet. A lot of children play around the area and then the accident happen, especially at the countryside. Most of the bomb didn't explode during the Vietnam War about late 1960's and early 1970's.

看完了之后才知道，原来未爆的地雷不论在多久之后，只要承受一些外来的力就会立刻引爆。不知道确切的所在位置，很多乡下小孩玩耍的时候就不小心踩到地雷。多年以前的战争，在多年以后留下的伤害，仍是如此的悲哀。带着沉重的心情，细听着导览机的内容，许多画面浮现脑海中。

Full of wall drawing by the children victim from landmine.

The map above shows the over 60,000 bombing missions flown by American pilots between October of 1965 and August of 1973. Each of the red dots marks a village or area targeted during those years.

Steps for landmines Clearing

These are make by the children at there.

Aki Ra

The founder for this landmine museum. A child soldier in Cambodia. He has devoted his life to removing landmines in Cambodia (from wikipedia)

"I laid many landmines when i was a child soldier. I knew they were bad when i saw animals and my friends killed by them. Now i clear landmines because i want to make my country safe for people..."

The way we back to town area, we pass by Jayavarman VII Hospital. Before i came Cambodia, i search this information through online, there will have a concert for every Saturday night by Dr.Beat Richner at this hospital. He is the founder of children's hospitals in Cambodia, and this concert is free entrance but can donate follow your capability. But the end we didn't go for this concert, cause is super tired for our first day and the time is not allowed us to make it.