Days in Stung Treng - markets, house hunting and the river front.

Stung Treng seems to be a small town with a big market and lovely riverfront.  The town market serves the whole province which is probably why it seems comparatively big.

View on a market corner showing outside stalls

 Photos of Stung Treng Market.

The morning part of the market is open air and sells fresh produce including wriggling fish – can’t get fresher than that! There seems to be lots of different fruits and veg that we don’t recognise but all very interesting. We will need a few recipes and cooking lessons when we finally get a house. The main market sells and offers allsorts: I had an excellent Pedicure for 2000R (less than half a dollar) and a fresh fruit smoothie for 1000R (a quarter of a dolla)r. They also sell clothes, gold, mobile phones, shoes, pots etc etc.

Talking of houses, thanks to the other volunteers, we viewed about 10 different ones many of which are the traditional wood type like the one below which was outside our guest house.

 

The wood ones are very attractive and quaint but unfortunately have lots of gaps between the boards – great for a bit of air circulating but bad for encouraging mozzies which love to bite me.

 We are now negotiating to rent a two bedroomed brick built flat which seems relatively mozzie free. It is attached to the landlord’s family house. The negociations invoved turning down living in the garage and having the land lords mother living with us, but agreeing to teach the children English and keeping the Buddist alter and prayer room in our locked 3rd bedroom to which the family will need access from time to time. Cambodian compromises that works well for us all!

Apart from house hunting we have visited various interesting people, both friendly VSO volunteers and local Cambodians in Teacher training colleges, Nurse training colleges and Health Clinics –more about the Health Centre on a later post.

Each evening as the temperature drops to about 25 degrees we cycle along the Sekong river front admiring the view which includes various livestock grazing by the roadside. We have even had time to enjoy an occasional beer from the street vendors.

View of Stung Treng town  Landing Jetty

Dont go any closer Chris !!!

A nice cool beer - through a straw - must get used to that!