Rice slinging and mud wrestling

We were cruising back from yet another AWESOME day around the angkor wat temples when we saw some locals planting rice. We stopped to watch and realised they were actaully harvesting it. Then the lady saw us watching and invited us to join in. Now this really was awesome. And hilarious!

You grab a handful of rice shoots (look like grass) and rip them out of the mud and then dislodge the mud from the roots by smacking it against the underside of your foot. Sound easy?

Maybe if you're not a hopeless, apparently club footed drongo like us with no coordination at all. I swear i was missing my foot entirely half the time. Then everytime we did manage to hit our foot, a huge spray of mud shoots out straight into the face of who ever is closest to you.

We both finished up entirely mud covered but the monsoon came and washed it all away when we peddled home. On the whole it beats Angkor what feet and rice down!