APAD 130: Field of lotus flowers
Spending our weekend with the children from Aziza’s Place away from the city last Saturday was a welcome respite from the hustle-bustle of city life. Only an hour away from the capital of Phnom Penh, the sight of this fantastic field of greens dotted with white and varying shades of pink was very appealing and relaxing to my city-eyes.
Lotus is one of my favourite flowers and this wide expanse of gently waving lotus plants in the pond fascinate me. They grow wild all over Cambodia. While a lotus flower in full-bloom is stunningly beautiful, almost all parts of the plant are used in cooking.
Here’s a close-up of a lotus flower:
The yellow head in the centre becomes the seed pod when the petals have dried and fallen off. The seeds when it is fully green is harvested by Cambodians and are sold in the market. These seeds are eaten and tastes, surprisingly, like peanuts. Here’s my previous post about the lotus seeds.
APAD 129: Bottle-gourd’s yellow flower
The field-trip was a great opportunity for the kids to explore the world around them, in this case, the farm. The kids enjoyed the visit, looking at feeding farm animals, catching bugs and insects, catching fish the traditional Khmer way, and playing games. The farm was big and had a huge lotus pond as well.On our way to the pond, we passed by rows and rows of the climbing bottle-gourd plants. The yellow flowers caught my attention.
APAD 128: Protected Area Office in Kampot
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APAD 127: Don’t believe the sign
This is an old sign that greeted my husband and I as we pulled over a space that’s supposed to be a car park. We were visiting the Teuk Chhou waterfalls in Kampot town.
There were several bamboo stalls for customers and a few beverage vendors. We were the only visitors that time. Out of nowhere, a shirtless middle-aged man emerged and handed us a piece of crumpled paper. A parking ticket, he said. The ticket looked old. It had stains and the ink was faded, giving us an impression that it had been used many times over. Looking closely I saw that parking costs $1. Unbelievable. The man was trying to rip us off.
We hastily left.
APAD 125: Monivong Boulevard
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.
APAD 122: Rainclouds
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.
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