I've heard about some strange jobs ('sheep-crutching' in New Zealand comes to mind, you don't want to know) but I didn't realize this one even existed. The enormous moats which surround Angkor Wat and its contemporaries are not effortlessly aesthetic. They are routinely culled of seaweed which obfuscates the sides and surface. So on a few different mornings, when it wasn't 100 degrees, I watched groups of men and women, in long sleeve shirts and pants, wading along the shore or drifting in inner tubes and harvesting huge patches of these water weeds, machete in hand. It looked fun. I'm guessing it's probably not.
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