Originally we had planned to head to Battambang before Siem Reap, but instead decided that we needed a dose of countryside and wildlife after the city, so we headed to Kratie. Kratie is a small town on the Mekong famous for its countryside but most the elusive Irrawaddy river dolphin, which wasn't really that shy.
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| The only picture of a dolphin we got. |
First we hired bicycles and took a ferry over to a nearby island in the Mekong. We cycled round it which provided an insight into the workings of rural Cambodia and showcased the friendliness of the Cambodian. We must have said "Hello" and waved to over a hundred kids that day. |
| The VERY friendly boat driver. |
Afterwards we cycled up the river 16km to where the river dolphins resided. We were a little worried about the sustainability of the tourism practices, but it turned out that there were only a couple of boats out on the water viewing the dolphins so we decided to join them. We then tied up at a stanchion of a previous bridge and sat and watched the dolphins (which looked more like porpoise), some even came pretty close.
We then spent the evening fighting off the swarms of insects which occupy Kratie's guesthouses.
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