Our World Tuesday: Cambodian shops
One of the hundreds of shops/stalls found at Psah Thmey (Central Market).
My husband and I love going to local markets. It’s the best place to find all kinds of goods, such as you see in the above photo. Tell me what can you see?
Psah Thmey, like all the other markers in the country, have a wonderful, chaotic character in them that a first-time visitor are easily overwhelmed. Market scenes like this assault your senses — all things bright and colourful, the lively sounds, and the smell, oh, the glorious smell of a market!
More market scenes are found here.
Monday Mellow Yellows: Smiley
When you see it…
The photo above shows what was once the grand fireplace at the lobby of Le Palace de Bokor. More details here.
Skywatch Friday: Sunset over Kep
Watching the sun disappear in the horizon. Kep has, arguably, the best sunsets in the whole of Cambodia.
Photo taken from the upper floor of Kep Lodge’s restaurant.
Kep (facing the Gulf of Thailand), Cambodia
Wordless Wednesday: Abandoned church
An old abandoned Catholic found in Bokor hill station.
One of the exciting things we did during the Khmer New Year holiday was go on a road trip to Kampot, to the popular Bokor Hill station. There we saw this old church that stands by the road, the image is eerie and haunting. More about this church in the following posts.
Our World Tuesday: Ruins of Bokor Palace Hotel
We celebrated the Khmer New Year in the coastal town of Kep, located down south of the country. The highlight of our holiday was a side-trip to neighbouring town, Kampot.
Kampot is a sleepy fishing town. It is small but the streets are wide and a bit dusty. It is the jump off base to the popular Bokor Hill Station up in Bokor Mountain where the popular ruins of an old French hotel and casino, Bokor Palace Hotel and Casino, is located. I was excited to go see the ruins for the first time but I was disappointed when I found this:
Do you feel what I feel, too? It used to be like this:
Photo by Mark Roy via Flickr.
The before-renovation photo was eerily beautiful; brooding and menacing at the same time that it was a fav destination for exploration by foreign visitors as well as ghost hunters. Some genius had the idea of renovating/refurbishing the hotel — and the result is the ugly, grey thingie that you see on the top-most photo. I’m sure it was called a ruin for a reason 🙁
For more details about the ruins, you can read about it in my other blog, Sreisaat Adventures.
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