Today started early for Kara and I, we went to this place called Happy Horse Ranch and rode Cambodian ponies around the country side. The place is run by an old embassy working from Phnom Penh who was rescued by the US during the civil war against the Khmer Rouge and lived in CA with his family for 30 years. Lucy, this gal from New Zealand, rode with us at 530 this morning, since its just so hot during the day. We did a 3..5 hour ride around the small village they had their ranch in and around lots of farm lands. It was so nice, because it was so early we got to see everyone starting their day. Lots of people were bathing (pots of water and scoops) and little kids were getting ready for school. Our guide the other day said that the little kids are all taught to say hi and bye to tourists to be polite, and ALL of the small kids ran to the road and waved to say hi, it was so cute! The animals were all waking up and wandering around. The calf's were all scared and interested at the horses and the dogs liked to follow.
We walked n between fields of rice. There were some farm squares that were all water for fish farming and we saw duck farmers. There were tons of water buffalo everywhere too! Lucy has been living here on and off for 4 years (she traveled here on vacation and fell in love with the ranch so she stayed!) and showed us the huge baby buffalo. The horses are pretty scare of them and we could trot or canter by, since she said the buffalo will chance the horses. WE talked alot of the time, she told me about the weird things shes seen during tours, like a guy electric shock fishing (illegal). My horse was quite feisty, randomly kicking into a run or doing small bucks. Once while we were walking through deep irrigation water, he decided to stop and sit down in the water! I leaped off so I didn't get smashed and the horse got up, just wanting a dip in the water., IT was quite funny and my camera survived, even though I was soaked in muddy water. It was defiantly one of the most fun days we've had :) We saw homemade cricket catchers with sheets and bright lights. We had a great time and got lots of photos!
We came back and napped. We got up at 430 the last couple days and were so tired. We got a hold of a map and wandered around the city, which basically was the restaurant/markets we've been going to the whole time. We tried to exchange money at a place that claimed to. She didn't really know what my Indonesian Ruphiah were and she undercharged Kara's Singapore exchange to USD by about $40. When we laughed and said no thanks, she said okay then how much, like she was trying to barter the exchange. Ya right, we left. We went back to the market this evening to look at some more things. We fund a T-shirt shop ran by this guy who made his own designs and made shirts fro his designs and his brothers artwork. They were very nice, as they werent' screaming tourist shirt, so we bought ones. Looked at the gemstones some more, but nothing was looking good. We're guna save the rest of our money for Phnom Penh, which has this famous place called Russian Market, so who knows, maybe we'll find something cool :)
Getting the mega exciting bus ride back to PP tomorrow. Yay. Not.
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