Lady Boys

We took our friends sight seeing to a temple on top of a mountain outside Battambang, Cambodia. They had never been to the temple because while they were engaged it was considered bad luck ot go there as an unmarried couple! When we started at the bottom two litttle kids started walking with us. At most of the temples kids accompany you and show you things and then you tip them. These kids were a fountain of information. The most interesting thing they told us was about the stairs up. It was a set of two side by side stairways and they told us that one was for women and one for men and if you walked on the wrong one in your next life you would be born a Lady Boy ( also known as boygirls)!
The view from the top was amazing. In the picture of the little girl she was standing on a wall with a drop of hundreds of feet behind her which freaked me out.It was really fun to take Salt and Moom on a little trip. Moom is quite shy and speaks no English but she warmed up to us after she was around us for awhile. It was sad for them though because this temple was the site of a ferocious battle withthe Khmer Rouge.