Kampi and the River Dolphins

Our sliver of a boat is wedged between two bushes midriver. The swift current creates the illusion of an armada of treetops gliding silently upriver. Between these islets dolphins play, tantalising us with glimpses of a glittering fin or a blunt prehistoric head. I can hear them breathe– Same like people, the captain says. It feels like some sort of initiation into the fast disappearing magic of creation……

There were other animals too, overland
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but not really that much going on

on the road less travelled through rural central Cambodia. Although- once in a while, we did end up where the action was!