These are silk worm coccoons. On the
paper are silk moths. They raise three breeds of silk worm here:
Thai, Cambodian, and a hybrid of the two. These are Cambodian
because they are yellow.
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Here, one long silk thread is being dyed for
weaving.
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They use chemical dyes in this operation.
Our guide said that vegetable dyes aren't colorfast enough.
Julie was highly skeptical, but she didn't make a scene.
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After buying lots of silk products, we
visited a land mine museum run by a man who placed and defused a lot of
mines in his day.
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Here, he's keeping a pet snake on some of his
landmines. Mines still kill about 100 people a month in Cambodia.
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We take a boat from Siam Reap to Phnom Penh
which takes us past floating houses and lots of fishermen working the
Tonle Sap lake.
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