A Photo a Day

>A bridge to Angkor Wat

Posted by The Insider on Feb 7, 2009 in A Photo a Day, ancient temples, Angkor Wat, Cambodia, Wordless Wednesday | 3 comments

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Angkor Wat Temple Complex
Siem Reap, Cambodia

>Typical work day in the commune

Posted by The Insider on Feb 6, 2009 in A Photo a Day, Kep, rural, sights, Skywatch Friday, Wordless Wednesday | 10 comments

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Commune Hall
Pong Tuek Commune
Damnak Chang’eur District
Kep, Cambodia

Rain clouds forming on the horizon. A few minutes later, a heavy monsoon rain poured cooling the grazing animals and nourishing the dry land.

>Wordless Wednesday 001: Bridge to nowhere

Posted by The Insider on Feb 4, 2009 in A Photo a Day, Cambodia, rural, sights, Wordless Wednesday | 4 comments

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A bridge over Toeuk Chou Waterfall area
Kampot, Cambodia

>Flying high…

Posted by The Insider on Feb 3, 2009 in A Photo a Day, faces, festivals, people, Phnom Penh, sights, Women, Wordless Wednesday | 5 comments

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Cheyor, Kampuchea!
2008 Bon Ekareich (Independence Day Celebration)
Phnom Penh, Cambodia

>Yellow-capped civil servants

Posted by The Insider on Feb 2, 2009 in A Photo a Day, people, Phnom Penh, sights | 0 comments

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Seen during the celebration of Cambodia’s Independence Day
9 November 2008

>Sunday Scenery #002: Sunset in Kep

Posted by The Insider on Feb 1, 2009 in A Photo a Day, Cambodia life, Kep, rural, sights, Sunday Scenery, sunsets | 7 comments

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Today’s Sunday Scenery entry is also the first photo to start my project 365 – one photo a day.

More than two years ago, I left the comforts of Phnom Penh for a work assignment down south of Cambodia – to the coastal town of Kep. Our organization had no office there yet so I had to use the same guesthouse room (where I live) as my office. There was no electricity yet – generator operates only at night – and so I travel to our project areas by day and do the paperworks at night. Each working day I was absolutely knackered from the bone-crunching moto-ride visiting remote villages. But when I go home, all the exhaustion simply vanished because of this:

View from my room at the guesthouse. The larger island in the background is known as Phu Quoc, which is already part of Vietnam. The tiny island, on the other hand, belongs to Cambodia and we fondly call it the population one island. How did it get its name? It’s because there is only one person inhabiting the island and it’s a policeman guarding the territory.

Further down the hill from the guest-house, is Psah Khdam (crab market) where we usually get our meals in one of the restaurants there. It’s got the perfect location where we were also treated to a fantastic view of the sunset over the Gulf of Thailand.

Don’t you just love the soft pink tone in the photographs? I have to say that Kep has, arguably, the most beautiful sunset in all of Cambodia!

Check out other Sunday Scenery posts at Tarheel Ramblings.