Andre and Wendy: ACCB, Temples, Land mines

This morning we have arranged a tuk-tuk to pick us up at 7am for a tour we have booked at ACCB at 9am. Website said it would a 1 hour drive, our driver said closer to 2 hours, turned out to be 1.5 hours. Our driver had all kinds of other ideas for us for the day, we just wanted to play it by ear.
ACCB, Angkor centre for conservation and biodiversity was our first stop. They are trying to rehabilitate animals that should never have been pet, or have been injured. We saw monkeys, birds, turtles,. A fantastic guide from France who is Cambodian that has his masters in conservation and is traveling for work for a while. A very interesting couple of hours.
Battery Srei, the pink temple, was our next stop. We hadn't intended doing any more temples but we had only used 2 of our 3 day pass so off we go again. This temple has lots of sandstone that looked pink, and some of the most intricate carvings we have seen so far, it was a great stop.

Land mine museum was our next stop. This museum has an incredible story about a man named Aki Ra, who was a child soldier who later returned to villages to defuse bombs. The museum houses many of the bombs he defused by hand. Sadly over the last 2 days we have learnt more about landmines than anyone should ever need to know.

Our final temple visit is at Banteay Samre. This temple wasn't as spectacular for us as many we have seen but it was special as it gets very few visitors, we were there with only one other man today.

We are done, hot and ready to return to the hotel for some pool timr. Our driver takes us to a money exchange place around the corner from our hotel, we get a decent rate changing some Canadian dollars to USD.

Laundry thrown in, quick change, lunch ordered for delivery at the pool and we are settled in for the afternoon.

The Australian family we visited with arrive back a couple of hours after us. We actually ran into them at one of the temples today. Fun comparing notes of what we each did today.

Showered up and we are off for supper. Walk through the park, not many pictures taken as it kind of looks love Christmas.

Grab a tuk-tuk to take us to pub street, just too hot to walk even though it is only 1km. We walked pub street couldn't find anything that really interested us for supper, lots of people feeding the fish with their feet tonight.

Got off pub street, well kinda and ended up at a restaurant that Andre said it was the tastiest meal he had in Cambodia. We didn't realize how big it was until you go to find the toilets, it was huge!

While eating a small parade of school children and a few parents came by. The Australian family at the pool earlier told us their driver had stopped for them to see a parade of children, they are looking for donations to be able to go to school. Many locals in the restaurant we were in got up to put money in their basket, we helped out a little as well. We don't know anything about this, does it happen on weekends, is it a new year's thing? Will have to see if Google has any more info on this.

No time to do another laundry of sweaty clothes here so tuk-tuk back to the hotel. Another sales pitch with what are you doing tomorrow...It would be great to be here many more days and be able to use many more tuk-tuks.

Another early night, packing up again and off with the mail tomorrow.

Todays Pictures:

At the police station, still has French writing