Posted by The Insider on Jul 26, 2011 in A Photo a Day, Addicted to Meme, All things Khmer, Cambodia, Cambodia life, downtown, sights, That's My World, transportation | 2 comments
This is Phnom Penh’s Monivong Boulevard. Picture taken a little after 12noon.
Monivong Boulevard is one of the main thoroughfares and crosses the city from north to south, beginning from the Japanese Bridge where the knotted gun monument is located and ending in Monivong Bridge.
Named after the King Monivong of Cambodia, Monivong Boulevard is also known as Street 93 to old-timers. Since this picture was taken a little after lunchtime there was visibly less traffic. Typically, Monivong is a busy street teeming with lots of photo-perfect sights for those who have the eye and quick impulse to grab a camera and shoot.
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Posted by The Insider on Jul 18, 2011 in A Photo a Day, Addicted to Meme, Cambodia life, food, Mellow Yellow Monday | 3 comments
Sunday BBQ @ our place. Never without the yellow corn 🙂
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Posted by The Insider on Jul 15, 2011 in A Photo a Day, Addicted to Meme, All things Khmer, Cambodia, Cambodia life, Kampot, sights, Skywatch Friday | 5 comments
Rainclouds setting over the town of Kampot in southern Cambodia and on the coast of the Gulf of Thailand. Kampot is a sleepy seaside town four hours away from Phnom Penh and is best known as the jumping point to trips to Phnom Bokor (Mt. Bokor, pic). It is known internationally for its aromatic pepper. Locally, it grows the best durian (the spiky, stinky fruit that many foreigners love to hate) in the province and the prime producer of salt in the country.
Photo taken while driving towards Kampot from the town of Kep.
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Posted by The Insider on Jul 14, 2011 in A Photo a Day, Addicted to Meme, All things Khmer, Cambodia life, Phnom Penh, sights, Signs | 7 comments
We may not have the international franchise 7- Eleven store but we have its local equivalent in Phnom Penh. It is called the 6-Eleven. Like all convenience stores elsewhere, it is usually open 24hrs a day and has stocks of all sorts of canned juices and sodas, bottled water, snacks, and other everyday sundries.
It has almost everything that a 7-11 store has. Except that the 6-Eleven store probably opens an hour earlier than a 7-Eleven store. LOL.
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Posted by The Insider on Jul 13, 2011 in A Photo a Day, Addicted to Meme, All things Khmer, Cambodia life, cyclo, transportation, Wordful Wednesday, Wordless Wednesday | 1 comment
This is a common sight everywhere in the city. The lowly cyclo, a local three-wheeled rickshaw, is one of the most enduring means of local transportation here in Cambodia. It is human-powered and equipped with seat to carry passengers. And cargoes, all sorts, such as above. It is estimated that there are around 2,000 cyclos plying the streets of Phnom Penh.
I like riding on a cyclo. It is slow, yes, but I like it because it gives me the opportunity to savour the sights and sounds of Phnom Penh. But these days, when the number of vehicles have quadrupled since the day I arrived in the Kingdom (11 years ago!), I rarely take the cyclo anymore. The once pleasurable cyclo ride has turned into a terrifying one, at least for me. Drivers don’t use the correct lanes, don’t observe traffic rules, and they have made the cyclo driver’s job harder and riskier. I just pray that the cyclo drivers go about their daily route safe and sound each day.
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Posted by The Insider on Jul 12, 2011 in A Photo a Day, Addicted to Meme, All things Khmer, Cambodia life, Kep, sights, That's My World | 6 comments
Photo taken in one of my field interviews in Kep. If I am not mistaken, we found this wat (temple) in a village in Ou Krasang commune in Kep. Apparently, monks like pink colour, too, as evidenced by this pink wat. The colour stands out in the middle of all the greens around it.
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