Cambodia

>Wordless Wednesday #35: Where Am I?

Posted by The Insider on Apr 1, 2008 in Cambodia, culture, rural, sights, travel, Wordless Wednesday | 0 comments

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>Wordless Wednesday #34: This is where I go home to…

Posted by The Insider on Mar 25, 2008 in Cambodia, Cambodia life, Kep, night shots, rural, sights, sunsets, Wordless Wednesday | 0 comments

I know I am breaking the rules again, but please allow me to give you a brief background. 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:

>Wordless Wednesday #33: Rural saleswoman

Posted by The Insider on Mar 18, 2008 in Cambodia, Cambodia life, culture, people, rural, sights, transportation, Wordless Wednesday | 2 comments

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>Photo Hunt #17: I Spy

Posted by The Insider on Mar 14, 2008 in Cambodia, culture, faces, Photo Hunt, sights, travel | 0 comments

Okay, I am posting my Photo Hunt entry this early to make up for last week. I was meaning to post one but somehow got lost amidst the weekend frenzy, plus I have friends visiting. This week’s theme, I have to say, is one of Photo Hunt’s most challenging themes. One of the PH participants suggested this theme for us participants to shoot a picture of something hidden for the viewer to find. So here’s my take:

Go get your spyglasses or magnifying lenses and explore the picture a la Lara Croft of the movie, the Tomb Raider. Tell me what you can see in this picture. Can you make anything of it? Click the picture and select large size for your viewing pleasure 😀

I will post on Monday a close up of one of the spires.
Till then, ta-ta. Happy hunting, and have a great weekend!

Update:

The photo above is of the Bayon Temple, one of the popular temples inside the Angkor Wat complex. It was built in the late 12th century or early 13th century as the official state temple of the Mahayana Buddhist King Jayavarman VII. The Bayon stands at the centre of Jayavarman’s capital, Angkor Thom. From afar, as you can see in the photo above, it looks nothing but stones jutting out to the sky.

Click here for a larger view.

But up close, one is mesmerized by the mysticism and the enigmatic expression surrounding the images. Angkor scholars said that that the images have an uncanny resemblance to the King Jayavarman VII.

For those who might want to know more on the temples of Bayon, here’s a good starting point.

>Wordless Wednesday #32 – Apsaras and warriors of the Khmer empire

Posted by The Insider on Mar 11, 2008 in Cambodia, culture, sights, travel, Wordless Wednesday | 0 comments

These stone carvings of apsaras and warriors are found in the walls and temples of Angkor. Apsaras are supernatural beings in the form of young and voluptuous young women and were said to be heavenly dancers. Click here to know more on the once-great Khmer empire.

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