The Dixon Family: Cambodia Day 1

Ahh! I had to leave my baby behind! It was so hard but so great having time together with my husband oh was it worth it!

Cambodia was amazing! We got in late and the next morning I got some shots of the outside of our villa. The inside was nice with living room/kitchenette separated from the bedroom and huge bathroom.

I loved how green the outside area is and it was pretty sweet that we had our own private pool on the roof. We also had our breakfast up there. I got a normal "American" breakfast with eggs, toast, bacon and fruit. Logan went exotic with a Cambodian breakfast including a whole chicken foot! (He didn't order that the next morning).

Before heading to the Flight of the Gibbons (zip lining!!) We needed to get some sunblock. I asked where we could go and within seconds we were on our first tuk tuk ride to the convenience store. I thought it would be scary but it was pretty fun. At the store I laughed because all the sunblock was only 20 spf except the one baby sunblock. So of course I got the 50 spf baby sunblock. They just don't realize how white I am.

Flight of the Gibbons is a zip line adventure through the national park. You don't get to see any temples but it was still a cool experience. Here we are getting all ready.

There were 10 zip lines and 4 bridges.

This was the group we did the whole thing with along with two guides. Poor Logan, always out numbered by girls.

Logan had the GoPro and I had the camera but we switched this time so I could show you what it looked like to fly above the canopy. Remember it looks like the ground it where the tops of the trees are but it is much further down then it looks. I am afraid of falling but there was never a second I was not securely attached to a line so it was no problem.

The end we repelled down. That was awesome! The long lines were my favorite but this was a close second.

The guide said this was a silk tree. We also passed lots of resin trees.

One of our brochures advertised the Cambodian Phare Circus so we thought that would be fun. What we learned once we were there was that is was part of a school run by an NGO to train kids in traditional Cambodian arts and that is in turn funded by the circus' performances. Online it says "Phare Performing Social Enterprise has three complimentary social missions: Provide gainful employment to Cambodian youth from difficult social and economic backgrounds, financially sustain our parent organization Phare Ponleu Selpak NGO school thereby contributing to the rebirth of Cambodian modern art." http://pharecircus.org/about-us/. It was impressive but also had some serious undertones hitting on the history and culture of Cambodia.