APAD 086: Sunbathing
When not moping or sulking, you can find Max outside the house doing what she loves most – sunbathing!
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APAD 085: Eyesore
Intermittent rains caused this open sewer to overflow to the main road. Not a pleasant sight, the water is brown and dirty – just look at the flotsam and jetsam there – and the stench is overpowering.
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APAD 084: A sunny day, to look up to the sky…
That’s the stupa on top of the Wat Phnom hill (Phnom Temple) jutting out, taken while inside the car. What a great sunny day it was when we went out to run some errands around lunchtime. The traffic was light and there was a slight breeze coming from somewhere.
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APAD 083: When getting lost is half the fun…
Four years ago, I was assigned in Kep for a big rural ICT project. Kep was a sleepy coastal town in the southernmost part of Cambodia. I lived there for 6months and during weekdays, I was busy with work, traveling from village to village spread across three communes in the district of Damnak Chang’eur. Weekends, however, was a different story. With no other means of entertainment, my husband and I took this opportunity to visit nearby communes and explore places that were rarely visited and were off-the-beaten track.
We found the sign (above) on the main road. On the right is a logo of UNDP Seila Project and, on the left, the Ministry of Tourism’s. We were convinced when we saw the logos and followed the trail. Some 45 minutes later, we were still nowhere near Phnom Chhngok cave. It was nearing noon, and hot and humid, and my butt was getting sore from the bumpy motorcycle ride. But we were glad we persisted in going. We stopped by to ask for directions with my sparse spoken-Khmer skills, had a chitchat for a bit, and enjoyed fresh coconut juice bought from a local roadside stall. The sight was a marvelous yellow and verdant green carpet of rice-field as far as our eyes could see. The coconut and palm trees, on the other hand, jutted out into the sky like skyscrapers. When we finally arrived at the place… we saw a limestone cave; small, but a beautiful one nonetheless. Inside it was chilly and there were stalactites and stalagmites here and there. But the main attraction there was the shrine (or remnants of what was once a shrine) inside the cave believed to be pre-Angkorian, around 1,500 years old. Some pictures on the way there can be found here at CambodiaMaps.
By the way, there was no resort there at all.
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