Siem Reap is the town from which people access Angor Wat, Cambodia's world famous Khmer temples. Journeying just a few minutes outside of the city was like a step back in time. Women wearing conical peasant hats perched at the edge of their traditional wooden boats. Young men stood rowing slowly upstream with one oar. Egrets waded near the shore.
Kingfishers dove for fish.
Young girls hung washing out of wood and thatch houses on stilts. Houseboats floated timelessly while their occupants swung on hammocks. As we raced by our wake disturbed the fishing boats we passed. Small children waved enthusiastically to us from the shore. They are the rest of Cambodia's body, stretching and grasping voraciously towards the future.