Pictures of the boat journey - Battambang to Siem Reap

A seven hour journey down the river from Battambang, through the delta and mangroves where the delta met the lake - across the lake and then into Seam Reap. As we left Battambang the houses were built over the river like this.

The river was a hive of industry - here's a boat builders yard.

These orange boxes are everywhere in Cambodia, always filled with ice, cans of beer, bottles of water and red bull. This one is odd because there is no Cambodian next to it to take your money.

In the delta the river was often as wide as we could see.

Cows standing in the shade of their food supply.

Plastic bottles used for net floats while fishing.

Our boat was also the bus service along the river with multiple pick up and drop off, our horn would go as we went along and then passengers like this bloke here would be in the middle of the river by the time we arrived and would be aboard with us hardly stopping.

I love these large fishing nets that are dropped and then picked up about 15 mins later

A Wat for the service of the local delta dwellers

A floating shop

Into the mangrove swamp - everyone standing in the centre of the boat as the branches from the plants bashed against both sides of the boat in the narrow channel. This brought in a great collection of leaves, spiders ants twigs and branches.

The nets were strung 3/4 of the way across the river about every 50m in places, our helm had to spend most of his time weaving through the nets.

A speedboat carrying half a dozen people would come through every half an hour or so.... the local taxi service.

The tree roots would create these great sculptures where the river had eroded the earth from under them.

Wat - a water one

And finishing off with a collection of Wats.