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DAY 11 SIEM REAP Meals included: Breakfast, Lunch This morning drive about 45 minutes into the countryside, stopping en route to visit a local village. Enjoy a 90 minute boat ride on Tonle Sap Lake, also known as the Great Lake of Cambodia. You will see many communities of floating houses and boats, including schools, markets, police stations, children playing and swimming, and fresh water aquariums with different fish species displayed. The living conditions in this area are extremely basic. Clean, fresh drinking water is a luxury for a few villages. This afternoon explore Angkor Thom (which means Great City). Angkor Thom is the cultural home of the Khmer (Cambodian) people and one of the ancient wonders of the world. This vast network of Wats (temples) dating back to the 7th century is the center of some of the most important structures, statues, and carvings produced in the name of the Buddhist and Hindu religions. The Great City covers an area of four square miles. The total length of the wall surrounding the city is 7.5 miles. Incorporated into the wall are a number of earlier buildings: Baphuon and Phimeanakas. The city is dominated by a mania for colossal size, punctuated with enormous numbers of towers and reliefs.