Day 1 AM: Exploring the River Front

When we teach a class we usually try to set up the computer lab on Sunday. But the students are using their personal computers this week, which caused all kinds of technical difficulties during the week, but left us with a day to explore and get over jet lag.

Our hotel was about a mile from the river front, so we walked. There was a hill with a Wat (temple) at the end of the street. Then we worked our way along the river front that opened up into a river front park. This was nice, but the direct sun was oppressive, so we cut into town and ended up in a bustling market.

 
We eventually made it to the national history museum that was interesting with some pretty extensive exhibits of pre-historic civilization and art from the Ankor period, a very advanced civilization (of almost a million people [1]) that dominated the region from the 12th to the 14th century.

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[1] Much more on this later as I visited the actual site of this civilization over the weekend.