Sunday, 11 March 2012

Memorable CAMBODIA

Arriving at Siem Reap International Airport

The streets of Siem Reap

First visit at the Senteur D'Angkor, art and craft centre mainly village craft products
making small bags/satchels from mengkuang leaf

hand made herbal soap 

some spices and herbs found here

visiting the village outskirt of Siem Reap
the mosque at the village

stopping for lunch

At Artisan D'Angkor Workshop, another art n craft centre
the craftsmen sculpturing the head of buddha.

At the crocodile farm


The memorial park
Thousands of bats in the trees



The War Museum 
The final use of the dismantled bomb
the machine of war
thousands of unexploding  bombs
Imagination that should never be realised
Mankind ingenuity for destruction



Ancient city of Angkor Thom, the 12th Century city of Temples, Angkor Wat




Boatride on the moat

At the killing field, the only photograph that I was willing to take 

visiting the silk farm
the silkworm eating away mulberry leaves

the  stage where silk is obtained



at the old night market


take time for a quick massage

to Phnom Penh. The journey took about 4 hours
bamboo rice

the old bridge at Kompong Kdei. As old as the Angkor Wat.


spiders 
at one of the stop to look at some of the local delicacies
fried frogs anyone?


Phnom Penh
Wat Phnom

visiting the royal palace
at the palace, the king identify the day by the colour of the lady's dress

at the palace garden
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the national flower of Cambodia "Rumdul"

The museum



Tuol Sleng Genocide museum to remember what animal the humans can become lest we forget.
One of the rooms where torturing took place

It used to be a school. Now it marks the atrocities of man on another human
with one of the two living survivors 
the perpetrators

At the Phnom Penh russian market


The streets of Phnom Penh
the new market


Boat cruise on river Mekong
The boat people



at the open market
some Cambodian delicacies

The last dinner at Phnom Penh
kwey teow at last

at the hotel before flight back to KL


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