Last weekend we took a trip with one of Pepy’s junior highs to the River of the 1000 Lingas and an animal conservation center run by a German NGO nearby. Cambodia’s jungles have been mostly cut down in the past fifty years, with about 70 percent less jungle in the country than in years before. While the temple areas are a bit more lush than other areas, this was my first real trip to the Cambodian jungle.

We climbed a trail to the top of the mountain and finally reached the River, which our gracious leader Yut talked about, but mostly in Khmer (the language of the Cambodians.) Yut works with us at Pepy as a tour guide for our various tours of Cambodia. He also used to be a Buddhist monk.

And this is a linga, which the river apparently had a thousand of. They are the Hindu symbol for fertility.

After looking at the linga, we made it to the waterfall, which the kids loved.

And finally made our way back on our Indiana Jones-type covered truck!