APAD 210: Souvenir paintings
Bring home a piece of Cambodia …
The markets in Phnom Penh and Siem Reap offer you a wide array of selections, from silk items to silver and gold jewelry, to souvenir shirts and, below, paintings depicting anything and everything Khmer.
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APAD 208: The Western Baray
A beautiful sunny weather. Skies covered with thin clouds. Plus the boy who tagged along on a short cruise of the Western Baray.
The Western Baray, or West Baray, is an old, old, old water reservoir and the largest found inside the Angkor Wat complex. Its waters are contained by tall earthen dikes. In the center of the baray is the West Mebon, a Hindu temple built on an artificial island.
Early French experts believed the West Baray to have functioned as a vast holding tank for water that fed irrigation canals in dry times, allowing multiple crops of rice each year. Many later studies, however, theorize that the baray had mainly symbolic functions, serving as a vast earthly depiction of the Hindu Sea of Creation, with the West Mebon temple at its center. (Source)
Up to now, the reservoir is still full of water and has become an attraction drawing mostly local crowd (and sometimes, foreign tourists, too) for swimming and boat rides.
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APAD 205: The War Museum in Siem Reap
My younger brother, who just came back from Siem Reap, gave me permission to use the photos he took there and have edited for my use (thank you, you’re an angel!). I am telling you this because I do not have time these days o take pictures myself as I’m quite occupied with a small consultancy gig.
This one’s taken at the War Museum in Siem Reap:
The place doesn’t really look much as a museum; it is basically a run-down field with overgrown shrubs and trees* that serve as graveyard of old tanks, guns, all sorts of heavy and light weapons. I was told that the place had been spruced up so it’s not as run-down as before. I’ve been there once, years ago, and I didn’t like it. It was crushing to see landmine victims greet you and take you around the place. The stories were horrific and to see with your own eyes the ugly reminders of war and atrocities that happened in this country was depressing, the same kind of feeling I had after visiting the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum in Phnom Penh.
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APAD 173: Hey, WAIT up!
This week’s theme over at Photo Hunt is quite challenging – WAITING. I could not find something that would fit into this theme so I had to really dig deeper into my photo vault and – voila!
Taken inside Banteay Kdei, one of the ancient temples found inside the Angkor Wat Archaeological Park in Siem Reap province. Banteay Kdei is one of the lesser known temples there – and very few people go there – but it’s as old and as interesting as the more popular Angkor Wat, Bayon, and Ta Prohm temples. We were hopping from one temple to another and I could not keep up with my husband. He was too busy taking pictures to even realise I was lagging behind. I didn’t like being left alone amidst the rubbles. It felt odd and eerie, even at broad daylight, so I yelled at him to wait for me. And that’s how this photo was taken.
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