APAD 186: Riverside promenade
At the end of the day, when the sun is about to set, locals and tourists alike gather at the riverside. Here, three rivers meet: the Mighty Mekong, Tonle Bassac, and Tonle Sap.
I could sit there for hours and just watch the boats and boathouses that pass by.
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APAD 185: Live chickens
Chicken, anyone?
These men drive around the village to find chickens that are sold by the villagers. They are sort of middlemen on wheels; they catch them with their own bare hands – if they can catch them because these chickens will put up a fight – bind their feet, and tie them upside down with other chickens at the side of the moto. It looks cruel but that’s the way it goes here… These middlemen in turn, sell these chickens in bigger markets, of course, with a bit of a profit.
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APAD 183: A nice day
Perfect time to go hit the road, isn’t it? Rural Cambodia is very charming and you’ll never know what surprises await you. Here you see a man on his motorbike and strapped behind him is this big bamboo basket with two squealing pig in it. The man probably collected these pigs from the village to be sold at the market.
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APAD 181: Umbrella… ella… ella…
My husband and I were driving along north of Norodom Boulevard one evening when this bicycle overtook us.
While my husband was caught by surprise – it came out of nowhere – I had the urge to sing Rihanna’s popular “Umbrella” song!
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APAD 180: Submerged in floodwater
I haven’t been out the past week so I have very little pictures to show about what’s happening inside the country. My younger brother who blogs intermittently at LitratoImages went on a company outreach to Lvea Aem district in Kandal province, one of the badly affected areas in the country. Lvea Aem is about 30-45mins away from Phnom Penh and my brother took photos showing the current situation there. Here’s one that I borrowed from him:
Oh, this picture shows the beautiful and the ugly at the same time. Clearly the photographer captured a beautiful image but at the same time it shows the ugly implications. The wat (temple) is half-submerged in water but the school-building behind it (on the left) and the covered shed (in front of the wat) are almost underwater. These parked motorised boats are for rent, however, and has been used as the only means to go around the villages.
Reports say that rain continues to pound the countryside, while there is hardly any rain this week in my side of the city. If the rain continues to fall at the rate it is currently going, Phnom Penh will be underwater soon as floodwater descend on the capital as, reports say, sections of the banks of the Mekong river, Tonle Sap and Tonle Bassac are in grave danger of collapsing.
Please remember the countless Cambodians displaced by floods in your prayers.
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APAD 179: Blooming and balancing…
… the cans. You don’t even know what this “thing” is from a distance. This is the back side. Hidden behind the pile of cans strung together, is a man, in his 40s, and driving a motorcycle. It’s a dangerous job collecting these cans. The driver himself could not see what’s following behind him. And the others could not see what is this moving “thing”, what was in front or where the driver is if you don’t get closer to it. Takes a lot of balancing act and presence of mind and nerves of steel to be able to drive on these roads. I just pray that this can collector go through his daily rounds safely each day.
This is actually an old photo I took some years ago while on a research activity in Kep. As you can see in the watermakr, it was posted in my other blog.
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