Second Day 

in the afternoon

Cambodian Culture Center

This is a nice place to spend the day.  It displays different types of villages and cultures found in Cambodia at each little village they preform a show or dance.  It is fun for the kids as they love dance.  A few of the shows interact with the crowd some which is fun for those not picked to preform.

The Chinese culture was displayed with acrobatics.  

You can easily spot Pastor Pat but can you find the rest our kids?

Every time I have been here the show has been different.  In the beginning I thought it was a little cheese.  At the end I was think there is no way I could do any of these tricks.  The guy below jump through the top hoop hands and feet first lands between and then jump hands first through the next hoop smoothly and effortlessly.   

The old guy in the back is giving my boys rabbit ears.

This is a dance we would like to teach our children next.

It is peacock dance.

In short it has to do with a princes wanting a magic peacock.

So the Chief hires a hunter to capture the peacock for the princes.

The hunter gets distracted by the girls who are fighting over him.

Then the hunter hears the pair of Peacocks doing a mating dance in the jungle.

He dresses up like a peacock so he can ask the female to help catch the magic male peacock.

After that he gets tired sits down to rest when the snakes come out and do their dance.

Towards the end the female helps him get the feather, he gives it to the princes who is changed into a peacock.

Fun to watch move of a play than the real dance.

The next area has to do with the Hill tribes and their marriages. 

You have the local people who come and compete for the girls hand.  

There was the Chinese guy, the Muslim guy and the Indian guy.

They show off, battle and dance for her.

But she chose this guy instead.  

Which later they dress him up like another Cambodia hill tribe member.

He was such a big guy, he looked like a cadge wrestler, just massive.

And the costume was really small.  He played a long really well in spite of being completely embarrassed the whole time.

You have to travel a bit to the next dance.

This dance had to do with a magic bow and becoming king I think.

I think this was lower flat land tribes near Mondulkiri.

A lot of these dances have to do with magic, fairy tails and witch craft.

Ah the last show really large and impressive, until the power went out and then the rain came.

It was fun while it lasted and the kids has fun which is why we went.

This show is about when the Muslims came in and took over the country

They killed a lot of people.

There was a period of morning. 

Then the Cambodian king rose up fought back and beats the Muslims.

Triumphant reentry.

If it would have not rained next the show would have went on to show the king building the Bayon temples with all the faces.  

A trip back to the hotels and dinner.

I ate a chocolate black forest cake and drank a Chi latte tea that was so good I can still smell the cinnamon.    

So thus ended our second day at Angkor Wat.

Day three we will travel north to a mountain covered in jungle with water falls and things to explore.