After the horrendous experience at the S-21 death camp and the killing fields, one really needs to return to something rather more pleasant.
A Cambodian dance at the largest self service restaurant in Phnom Penh where we had our dinner. The legs of the dances are spread wide apart and bent at almost right angles, just like those dancing figures we saw at the temples of Angkor Wat
Another dance
The common fate of many boys
A green peacock
After dinner, we were taken to the famous pub street in Phnom Penh, the only one there, to stretch our legs.
A bar in the only "pub street" fitted with wheel and parasol and parapluie
The other side of the pub. It has a kind of easy open air cosiness
An art gallery nearby
A quiet pub for some tête-à-tête
Perhaps because it's still early, there weren't any customers
A high class cafe but hardly any customers
Just a table or two
A more popular bar restaurant on the main pub street
They like to eat on the terrace
Some customers enjoying their dinner
A pizza place for the young
A roadside pancake stall
A baquette sandwich stall
This one sells noodles with assorted ingredients
This one sells brochettes Turkish/ Hungarian style
Tourists having the dead skin on their feet being picked off by live fish. Uugh !!!
A book store in a side street close by
They sell even Swedish books!
From Books to Bed
A painting at the hotel gallery
Another such painting
This looks a bit like those by Andy Warhol
Time for Breakfast again: the display outside the hotel restaurant
Wherever we go, we find this kind of tree in full bloom. We find them in parks and even on the side of the streets
We find them besides monuments
Outside our hotel
Even on the killing fields
Paddy growing outside the killing fields
An orchid growing quietly outside the house of horror at the killing fields
More orchids there
A yellow hibiscus at our hotel garden
Another one. It's color is so sharp!
A lotus found at the pond of the National Museum
A purple lotus also found there
A Blue lotus
Some button flowers I found at the grounds next to the royal palace
Another flower on the palace grounds
Some plants outside one of the restaurants
Flowers decorating the reception area of another of our lunch restaurants
Flowers on an urn at one of our coach resting stations
A thick leaf lotus in the same urn
Plastic bag filled with color water used as a decoration
What an innovative idea for decorating the thatch shed at the coach resting station. The river is the Mekong
Food galore at our rest stop on the way to Angkor Wat
These really look like "Tung Koon" sausages
Rest stop snacks: barbecued fish
shellfish sauté
Deep fried scorpions
Deep friend cicadas
Deep fried quails
Deep fried frogs
a yam like fruit
Small pineapples at dirt cheap prices
A kind of glutinous rice snack
A close up of that kind of local hot and spicy micro-dumplings
A bamboo cane press
Everything can be shot from the coach window, especially street scenes. You find busy streets of Phnom Penh, full of motor cycles, like Bangkok, Taipei, Ho Chi Minh City, Swatow etc.
There are tricycle tuk tuk everywhere
They may also serve as three-wheel mini lorries.
Everything there can be sold on such small carts
You find fruit stalls everywhere
Our hotel in Phnom Penh
A wall decoration at the hotel
Hotel stairs
An artist playing the Cambodian xylophone at the hotel lobby
Morning has come
Time to go: the Phnom Penh Airport
The way ahead may be straight or full of bends
Whatever it may be, may the flame of the lotus light up our hearts.
泰國街邊好多時都見到果種一串黃花垂下來那種樹, 我覺得好靚
回覆刪除[版主回覆04/11/2013 22:44:53]Yes you're right. Do you know what it's called?
看來柬甫塞要全面發展經濟還有一大段路要走。謝謝國文分享！
回覆刪除[版主回覆04/11/2013 22:45:45]Lots of infra-structures are now being built, especially highways and high rise buildings.
DI 花好靚
回覆刪除[版主回覆04/11/2013 22:45:54]Thank you.
Fantastic blue lotus!
回覆刪除Beautiful flowers but who knows somewhere amidst the blooms still lies a dormant land mine?
[版主回覆04/12/2013 09:24:32]Millions of mines still exist today, waiting to explode. In the human heart. They go by different names: like selfishness, pride, greed ( for wealth, power, fame, etc), anger, hatred, fear, jealousy, impatience, stubborness, intolerance and despair etc. But underlying them all is human ignorance of what or who they are and their unwillingness, laziness or lack of will to face themselves as they truly are and to improve ( or in religious terms, to "repent").
Peacock dance is the eastern version of Swan Lake.
回覆刪除[版主回覆04/14/2013 13:33:03]Alas, all things beautiful may ultimately be fatal !
[百了回覆04/13/2013 17:10:53]They're both potential H7N9 carriers.
[版主回覆04/13/2013 13:39:09]Is it? In what way are they the same?
很好的柬埔寨體驗，很好的旅程！
回覆刪除[版主回覆04/13/2013 13:40:17]Thank you. It has opened my eyes about the extent of human misery.
有冇去萬人塚 呀 ?
回覆刪除[版主回覆04/13/2013 16:02:39]That's the most heart-rending part of the journey. It was simply.....shocking to see them on the spot !
藍色的睡蓮美麗又罕見, 小食很特別, 有胆嘗試嗎?
回覆刪除[版主回覆04/14/2013 21:48:45]Yes, it's rare to find blue lotus. I wanted to but dare not try the insects.
更多小食一定好味！不愿走呀！
回覆刪除[版主回覆04/14/2013 21:53:35]I never tried because I don't have the local's stomache which is used to them. I was afraid they might not be clean. Our tour guide expressly warned us to just photograph them but never to try them and to treat taking them with our eyes as having taken them into our mouths. I can't risk having a diarrhea in Phnom Penh before I went to Angkor Wat, the principal object of the whole trip.