APAD 191: Shrimps galore
These shrimps are caught in the waters just off Sihanoukville, Kampot, and Kep. Aside from selling them fresh, they are also sold as dried, or, preserved in salt and spices and bottled. The dried and preserved ones are usually used to season or add zing to Khmer food.
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APAD 190: A Khmer traditional house
This is how a typical rural Khmer house looks like. It is made of wood and palm fronds.
This type of Khmer house is found all over the countryside. They are all on stilts and up above the ground, as you can see in the picture. This is to avoid flood-waters. On dry, summer season, the lower part of the house is used as a kitchen, a storage area for their things and a rest area at daytime. In the evenings, it is also used to shelter the family’s farm animals.
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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 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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