Our guide’s name today is Phon. She says just call her IPhone 

We will be going to Ang Sila where they make mortar from stone and to make special sticky rice sweets

First we stop in a market where all kinds of sweets are made especially. And, all kinds of fresh fish…. all for sale. Khaolam… rice is soaked in water first for 30 minutes then coconut milk and salt, then stirred. Then black bean and taro are added….. and sugar. It is then put into bamboo only partly filled wrapped in banana leaves & burned for 2 minutes or in bamboo for 2 hours.  So many kinds of sweet treats made with sticky rice. 😋

Next is to Ang Sila 

Before arriving we were issued face masks because there is lots of dust at the mortar “factory”.  Basically it’s a granite quarry that they make figures of elephants, Buddhas, granite slabs (for countertops?) and mortar and pestles for grinding spices, etc. Pretty much all done with hammer and chisels. There is some final work done using a grinder.

We stop by the pier where you can see fishing weirs (poles) out in the water. They are farming mussels.