Posts Tagged "Skywatch Friday"

APAD 222: Sunset over Svay Rieng

Posted by The Insider on Dec 15, 2011 in A Photo a Day, Addicted to Meme, All things Khmer, Cambodia, Cambodia life, Expat Life, sights, That's My World, travel, What's On in Cambodia | 2 comments

Witnessed the beauty of bewitching hour while on the road and well on our way back to the city. We are still in Svay Chrum district (Svay Rieng province) when I took this photo.

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APAD 213: When will I see you again?

Posted by The Insider on Dec 2, 2011 in A Photo a Day, Addicted to Meme, All things Khmer, Cambodia, Cambodia life, Expat Life, That's My World, travel, What's On in Cambodia | 2 comments

This is the view that I’m longing to see… again.
The calm waters of the Gulf of Thailand, with the mountains of Bokor in Kampot province as background.

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APAD 208: The Western Baray

Posted by The Insider on Nov 25, 2011 in A Photo a Day, Addicted to Meme, All things Khmer, Cambodia, Cambodia life, people, That's My World, travel, What's On in Cambodia | 3 comments

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 203: Good morning, moon!

Posted by The Insider on Nov 18, 2011 in A Photo a Day, Addicted to Meme, All things Khmer, Cambodia, Cambodia life | 7 comments

This has got to be one of my favourite photos. I took this using my old but ever-dependable point-and-shoot digital camera. Sometimes I am surprised at the pictures that come out of it. Like this; especially this.

I was walking my dog quietly when the sound of the plane jolted me back to my senses.  I looked up the sky and was pleasantly surprised to see the moon very visible over the cloudless, blue Phnom Penh sky. It was already past 8am. I hurriedly went back to the house to get my other dog to walk and my camera vowing not to let this moment pass without a photo-memento.

There it was – the moon – what a beautiful sight! I set my digicam to a 2MB file size. There was an electric wire that got included but I cropped it so that I get this money-shot, lol. If not for my dog who was tugging the leash, I could’ve taken more. But this one is perfectly fine that I chose to post for this week’s SkyWatch.

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APAD 193: This I want to witness again

Posted by The Insider on Nov 4, 2011 in A Photo a Day, Addicted to Meme, All things Khmer, Cambodia, Cambodia life, Skywatch Friday, That's My World, travel, What's On in Cambodia | 2 comments

An absolutely stunning sunset!

Missing the beautiful sunset of Kep.

Will see you soon. Promise.

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