A powerful river runs through this city, full of barges and ferries and small merchant boats, plus the old fashioned long narrow wooden river boats we experienced in Cambodia. The wooden boats here are painted bright colors and we had the chance to hop into one to go down the river and into one of the canal systems. The canals back into houses, temples, and schools. Some of the houses are small and poor, up on stilts, while others are lovely middle class homes with gardens and fruit trees lining the river.
Thai people love animals and try to feed or help them when possible. At one point, we stopped our boat near a small river temple, and the boat girl handed out loaves of soft white bread. We tore off hunks and threw them out to the fish. As we did, giant catfish began to thrash and swarm. There were thousands of fat happy fish there outside that temple, that's for sure!
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