Irrawaddy dolphins,khmer whisky and the blues bros

Trip Start Mar 10, 2007

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Trip End Jan 01, 2007

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Flag of Cambodia Kratie, Cambodia
Sunday, July 15, 2007

Arrived in Kratie about mid afternoon, and decided to leave the dolphins to the next day, as there was time before the bus out. Kratie is a tiny place, everything is centered on the small market in the centre and to be honest there's little else there. I found a cafe where they were screening the blues brothers that evening and that was my evening sorted!
The following day i took a moto out to see the Irrawaddy dolphins at the small town of Kampi. There are only believed to be a few hundred of these dolphins left in the world, and this is regarded as possibly the best place to see them. I had a few good sightings, but trying to take photos was impossible:- a dolphins would be in front of you and you try to snap it , getting the photo a fraction of a second too late, or you'd be staring one way for ages waiting for a dolphin to appear, then you hear 'psssshhhhhh', as one exhales water from its blow hole behind. Obviously i then spun round just in time to miss that dolphin and then miss the dolphin that appeared where i was originally staring. Was still worth the trip though, and the pathetic pics really are dolphins, i promise you.
On the way back my moto driver stopped at this little shack filled with guys, where it became evident he had been drinking rice wine whilst i viewed the dolphins (it was nearly ten o clock after all!). I was invited in and as per usual in this side of the world, the drinking continued, not that i was objecting, i love this kind of thing. We sat eating and drinking whiskey for a while (it turned out it was me, my driver and a large part of the tourist police drinking), then he dropped me back into town for my bus to Ban Lung. What an excellent morning.

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