We visited the turtle shelter in a Thailand Navy Golf Course.  Because sea turtles are endangered, people kill the sea turtles, there are some people that are killing the turtle eggs.  (Or something, I do not remember.)  The mother sea turtle haves her baby eggs on the sand, next the mother sea turtle goes back into to the sea, then when the baby sea turtles hatch, they go back into the sea.   When the sea turtles head their way back towards the sea, the have to face the really strong waves, and some of the sea turtles will die.  And that is very sad, new born babies have dead?!  And when the sea turtle is an adult they have to rise their own baby sea turtles, with a lot of other baby turtles.

The turtles can live until 100 years old.  Wow!!

There are a lot of different turtles.

Here is a small turtle.

This small turtle is resting.  And it is a green turtle, that is 15 days old. 

Here is a two headed baby turtle.

This two headed baby turtle, dead when they were only 4 monthes.  Because they were sick or something.  I do not know what happened? 

Can you think what happened?
(Write it  when you write a comment.)
Thank you.  :)

Here is a Hawksbill turtle that is around 2-4 years old.  (I think?)

Here is a Green Turtle that is around 2-4 years old.  (I think?)

Here is a Olive riley Turtle that is around 2-4 years old.  (I think?)

My Dad and I boogie boarding.

My family and I went boogie boarding, and it was great!!!  (boogie Boarding is great!!)  (We did it in Khao Lak, Thailand  JW Marriot.)

My Dad and I tried to get the very good waves.  (I got a lot of great waves.)  P.S. (My Dad did too, he got three ina row.  Wow!)

In the picture I had a lot of salt water and it did not feel very good. :(  (But overall it was a beautiful day with sunshine, and blue sky!!) 

My Dad saw some fish and I did not see them , but my dad did.  The color of the fish was blue, (and they were not flying.)

How do you get on the boogie board?
1. You get your boogie board.
2. You need to put on the strap. 
3. You walk into the sea or ocean.
4. You get to the spot that is near shore.  (And you can go out a little bit more, but it is better if you go by shore.  So you can crash into the waves!!)
5. You hop onto you boogie board.
The really fun thing is!!!
6. Crash with the waves and go wooooooosh!!!!!
7. You will have a great time, and hope you can go to Khao Lak, Thailand!!!
 

On morning we were going to see the sunrise.  We were going to meet our Tuk Tuk driver at
5:30 a.m.  Daddy woke us up.  I was very sleepy but I got up.  We waited for our Tuk Tuk driver and he did not come.  We waited and waited and he still did not come.  Then Mommy looked at her watch, she said:"IT is only 4:30!!!!!!!!!"  Can you guess what happened???  Daddy set the alarm Beijing time.  (Cambodia time is 1 hour behind us.)  

Many people were waiting for the sunrise, but the sun did not come out of the cloud.

We never had good luck with sunrise.  Once in Hawaii, we got on top of a mountain.  It was freezing cold.  And I was freezing to death.  And the sun did not come out!

Once my Mom got up early on Yellow Mountain to see sunrise.  And she could only see a bunch of people's heads.
So we are not going to see sunrises any more.  

Angkor Wat

        On our first day in Siem Reap, we went to the many temples around Angkor Wat.  Mr. Roma is the tour guide and he is from Siem Reap.
        We also had a Tuk Tuk (a small taxi made from a motorcycle) driver who took us to  different areas. 
        On the way to Angkor Wat we saw a group of mischievous monkeys. They were eating and playing near the water. 
        Angkor Wat was built in 1113.  It took 30-35years to build Angkor Wat, and it took 4,000 elephants and 1 million people.  It was for the Hindu God.  (The Temple)
        In the picture above, the middle door is for the King.  Side door is for the people.  And other side door is for the elephants. 

Above is the moat for Angkor Wat.  It is much wider than the moat of Forbidden City.

There is a statue that has eight arms. 
It is a Vishnu God.

There are a lot of these lady around and as you can see they all have different hairstyle.

When you enter the door, there are two libraries.  The library in this picture was to be used during the full moon.
The other library was used at other times.
The visitors first went to the library to learn manner.
Next, they took a bath in the pond.  

This is the national museum.

Hereis the Royal Palace were the king lives.  Do you know the French built it?  It is very cool in the inside.
Guess what is inside?  The floor is all real silver!!!  (In one of the rooms that I do not know.)

Here are the 7 heads of the cobra.
It is because there are 7 colors in the rainbow.
Can anyone do a research to see why Cambodia likes cobras?

The top picture are some women in different color clothes.  They all are wearing different colors.  Right?
This is the women's clothes for Monday - Sunday.
Is that cool!!!
The red is for Sunday.
The orange is for Monday.
The dark blue is for Tuesday.
The light green is for Wedneseday.
The dark green is for Thursday.
The light blue is for Friday.
The dark red is for Saturday.
Is that cool?????

Here are some bananas.
They are growing on a tree, at the Royal Palace.  (They are very fresh.)

Here is the school bus for kids in Cambodia.  It is a truck. 
When I saw them, they were saying good bye to a man, that was saying good bye to the kids on the school bus.

It is New Year's day in Cambodia.  We went to this temple called Watt Phnom.  The National Geographic Traveler book says it is "where you may feed mischievous monkeys."

At Watt Phnom we saw many birds in cages.  People pay money to  let the birds be free!  Mom explained to me that Buddists believe it is good to let the birds go free.  It brings you good luck.  Some children were holding the bird cages.  They were selling to us and to us people.

At the temple you can go in and pay respect to the Buddha.  A lot of people were putting money on the Buddha statutes.  At the back some musicians were playing music for all the Buddhas.

There were a lot of people who were giving food to the Buddha.  Some people were giving some meat like rosted pigs, cooked chicken, rosted baby pigs, and fruit.  In China the Buddhas do not eat meat. 
P.S ( They do eat fruit.)

However, at the Watt Phnom, they do not have the mischievors monkeys.  I was not very happy because I did not feed the mischievous monkeys. 


(I will put pictures on when I come back from Cambodia)