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Seen during the celebration of Cambodia’s Independence Day
9 November 2008
>Sunday Scenery #002: Sunset in Kep
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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!
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>Wordless Wednesday #57: Light and shadow
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Detail of a wall section in Angkor Wat.
Siem Reap, Cambodia
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>Wordless Wednesday #56: Juice mio!
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Living in Cambodia for a long time now makes me get used to signs that are funny or are not intending to be funny but because of the outrageous word combination (i.e., translations or context) it takes on another meaning (humorous) or no meaning at all. Previously I posted pictures of funny signs most of which I saw in my frequent trips to the countryside. This time, I am posting something that I found in a Chinese restaurant’s menu. Juice with fancy (funny) names available at one of the Chinese restaurants (forgot the name) near Hun Sen park, just a stone’s throw away from Java Cafe. Have a look:
Since it was really hot that day, so I ordered myself this:
Can you guess what I ordered??
No, not the Relieve summer heat the plum juice. They were out of stock.
Tried asking for the Keep like good health the turnip juice. No luck.
So I just settled for the cool water melon juice!
How about you, what’s your choice?
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>PhotoHunt #030: Lazy
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In 2006, I was assigned to the coastal town of Kep and the whole family – me, my husband, and our dog Max – relocated. We stayed in a guesthouse on a hill with a sweeping view of the Bokor mountain and the Gulf of Thailand. Almost every day, after lunchtime, we all retreated to our hammocks on the mini-patio and spent the lazy afternoon enjoying the view. The breath-taking view and the refreshing sea breeze lulled us all to sleep, Max included.
>Wordless Wednesday #55: Working girl
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My entry for the Tuesday-Wednesday edition. Taken in Dhaka, Bangladesh in December, 2002. After getting off a bus, I chanced upon this pretty girl, roaming around with this mat on her head. Through my interpreter, I learned that this girl is one of the many displaced people in Bangladesh. She used to live along the Buriganga river and constant floodings swept away her family’s house and livelihood. This drove them to the capital of Dhaka where they have no permanent shelter and no food to eat. She earns money picking garbages and, sometimes, begging, too.
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