I woke up Saturday morning , June 2, to a lovely quiet scene: the moon setting over the lake with houseboats on the opposite shore. I sat there on the hotel balcony taking pictures and working on Zhoie's sweater ( finished the body) and enjoyed the quiet.

The next picture after that one is the last half of a mongoose(left side of the picture) out hunting his breakfast.

I saw some fishermen setting out in a canoe.

After breakfast, we set out for the houseboat that would take us on the backwater tour for the next 24 hours. Aboard the boat, we passed under bridges where trains were crossing the river.

We were an endless source of amusement to local people, especially children. We saw another houseboat that actually looked like a floating house. The fellows on the boat must have spent all of their time preparing food for us because there certainly was a lot of it and my was it tasty, especially washed down with all of that good tea and coffee and even a beer on Saturday evening!

We floated past some tranquil looking islands, some with tiny cottages built on them!

Next, the happy campers (houseboaters) went canoeing up some tiny backwaters to do some exploring.

We met a nice lady whose family builds canoes, which sell for the equivalent cost of a motorcycle here and are much more durable and cheap to run...