As the name implies, Silking is the key culture here. local people in this island would sew with silk and silk-like fabrics. They would foster silkworms in order to produce the raw material of making silk.
Hence, they would also use a non-power-driven machine to manufacture silk products. If you are here, you could learn about the mechanism of manufacturing silk related products.
You could also know more about it in the theme park.
Farming
Habit
Children
Some local people in this island would farm.
Visit local farm, pick and enjoy many multifarious fresh fruits here such as corn, mango, banana, carrot and cherry.
The local people in Silk Island and Somrong are happy with their living. They are willing to share and help others. They always give visitors a extra food as a gift such as potato wedge and mango.
Cambodians usually sleep early. The people in the city may sleep at 11:00pm. The local people in Silk Island may sleep at 10:00pm. Perhaps the local people in Somrong Village would sleep more early because some of them need to go to the Phnom Penh city for working. If you will visit these rural areas, you shall keep quiet at night in order to avoid disturbing the local people.
Silking
Local Culture
Khmer
Cambodians speak in Khmer, not all of them know English so you better learn some useful phrases and words before your trip.
Khmer uses a phonetic alphabet with 33 consonants, 23 vowels, and 12 independant vowels.
Consonant would be placed in the center while the vowel would be placed surrounding the consonant, each vowel would has its own particular side.
Rural and Simple Living
Somrong Village has less modern facilities.
The lifestyle of people there are very simple. Try natural living here and you could take a real rest in this silent rural village.
If you are new to natural living, worth to try once, may be you will like it!
Children are our future. There are some schools in Silk Island and Somrong Village. Schools there only have simple facilities and most of them only have one floor. They have very good attitude on learning and lives. Although they have simple lives, they treasure what they have and cherish any opportunity on learning. You will see they always wear a big smile on their faces. They welcome all the visitors sincerely. When you arrived, they will come around and try to say hello to you.
You may see some cultural differences between these schools and schools in your home country.
