APAD 211: Azure
One of the few photos I took last month.
If you’d look closer, you’ll see a tiny white dot that is the moon.
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APAD 210: Souvenir paintings
Bring home a piece of Cambodia …
The markets in Phnom Penh and Siem Reap offer you a wide array of selections, from silk items to silver and gold jewelry, to souvenir shirts and, below, paintings depicting anything and everything Khmer.
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APAD 209: Orchids in the city
Beautiful orchids, aren’t they?
They adorn the garden of the newly-opened spa in the same street where my little bro lives.
If I’m not mistaken, there was another business establishment in the same spot where the spa is now. I don’t remember it now but it might be a restaurant. Business in the city come and go. For every shop, restaurant, or spa that shuts down, a new one opens and takes its place. Just like that; a cycle of sorts.
APAD 208: The Western Baray
A beautiful sunny weather. Skies covered with thin clouds. Plus the boy who tagged along on a short cruise of the Western Baray.
The Western Baray, or West Baray, is an old, old, old water reservoir and the largest found inside the Angkor Wat complex. Its waters are contained by tall earthen dikes. In the center of the baray is the West Mebon, a Hindu temple built on an artificial island.
Early French experts believed the West Baray to have functioned as a vast holding tank for water that fed irrigation canals in dry times, allowing multiple crops of rice each year. Many later studies, however, theorize that the baray had mainly symbolic functions, serving as a vast earthly depiction of the Hindu Sea of Creation, with the West Mebon temple at its center. (Source)
Up to now, the reservoir is still full of water and has become an attraction drawing mostly local crowd (and sometimes, foreign tourists, too) for swimming and boat rides.
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APAD 207: The Royal Gendarmerie of Kampot
This is one of the notable landmarks as we enter the province of Kampot – the provincial headquarters of the Royal Gendarmerie of Cambodia, or the Military Police, one of the branches of the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces. The mighty Garuda, as you can see, is holding up what could be a symbolic key (or something to that effect) with the logo and words in Khmer and French translation at the bottom. Please excuse the low quality picture, it was shot using a mobile phone camera and on a moving vehicle.
Gendarmerie Royale de la Provence Kampot
Royal Gendarmerie of Kampot Province
Garudas are mythical creatures found at the stone carvings in the Angkor temples. This clearly shows the influence and importance of Hinduism in Cambodia brought by the Hindu traders long time ago. The Garuda is one of the most unique creatures in Hindu mythology. It is a creature comprised with a head, wings and talons of an eagle with a man’s body. One of the three principle animal deities in Hindu mythology, the Garuda is the king of the birds and enemy of the serpent. (Source)
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