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The riverfront in the capital Phnom Penh may look peaceful... |
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.... but it's a buzzing city where everyone is always on the go... |
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... sometimes at a gentle pace... |
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... and sometimes a bit more quickly. |
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Easily the best time of day to be up and about is at sunrise... |
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... when the city's residents take the chance to do all sorts of exercises... |
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... and sometimes even a falang (foreigner) is brave enough to join in the spontaneous dancing. |
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And yes, if you look closely, that is indeed an elephant in the background, "on it's way to work". But at least when he gets there... |
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... health and safety still comes first. |
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So after emotional visits to the Killing Fields, we decided it may help to have a go at meditation class. (John seemed to really enjoy it, but I think it just made my knees ache.) |
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After travelling upcountry by bus to a town called Battambang, we took a bicycle tour into the countryside to meet farmworkers and see their skills. This was us trying to make a rice pancake... |
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... and here's some we (ahem) made earlier. |
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Often we had a fascinated audience... |
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... but the real show was the amazing skills of all the local people. |
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... that hurtles you through the countryside at breakneck speed. |
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On journey onwards then required an all-day boat ride down the river delta.... |
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... which meant we got to see life on the river at sunrise... |
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... including the morning laundry. |
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Our boat provided an interesting ride... |
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... although the 'on-board facilities' weren't up to much. (Just don't ask what lurks behind that door.) |
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We were equally a source of fascination to the local villagers, as they were to us. Some lived on the riverbank... |
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... while others lived on the river itself. |
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And when you live on the river, you learn from a young age. |
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Our final destination was Siem Riep, the base to explore the astonishing complex of temples at Angkor. |
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Some, like Ta Prohm, have long ago surrendered to the jungle and are wonderfully atmospheric... |
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... and many are just vast - and very, very steep. |
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The stoneworkers' skill and ambition was breathtaking... |
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...and they even found time to add a few gargoyles. |
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Cambodia - truly a spiritual place. |
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