Trip to Stung Treng

International Womens Day was a national holiday, so I took advantage of the long weekend by visiting far flung Stung Treng province with two fellow VSO volunteers. Stung Treng is home to five other volunteers and we three visitors were made very welcome by them, with invitations to parties, to staying in their houses and to borrowing their motorbikes. We were shown around their workplaces – a hospital (grim!), community health offices and an NGO office. In the photo, Meng is presenting some of the work of her NGO. The three of us had a glorious day trip up the Mekong river and into Laos, going through beautiful scenery and swimming in the river only 100m from some rare Irriwaddy freshwater dolphins.