Cambodia

A fascinating country with a heart-wrenching recent history and the powerful urge to move into a better future is combined with an amazing cultural heritage

Sunrise over Angkor Wat (Siem Reap, Cambodia)

Angkor Wat Sunrise

The Cambodian national symbol, Angkor Wat with its shadow in the sacred pond

Angkor Reflection

A group of asuras (power-seeking deities) holding a naga (sacred snake) leading to the South Gate of Angkor Thom

Asuras

As sudden as hundreds of buddhist monks appeared at the Angkor Wat temple, as sudden they left, chanting and walking in an almost military formation

Leaving

Out of a sudden, there were hundreds of Buddhist monks arriving at Angkor Wat. Soon they started conducting a religious ceremony inside the upper level of the temple

When I am older!

Smoke coming off many small incense at a little shrine in one of the second level galleries in Angkor Wat

Sacred

Long and empty gallery on the lower level of the Angkor Wat Temple in Siem Reap, Cambodia

Ancien Perspective

A Buddha statue with a yellow scarf inside the ruins of Banteay Kdei temple in Angkor

Meditating

Light falling Inside the Bayon temple in Angkor Thom

Ray of Light

Two of the once 216 faces (Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara) in the ruins of the Bayon temple in Angkor Thom

Two faces

Young Cambodian Child on the street to Tonle Sap

Cambodian Child

Cambodian Family on the way to Tonle Sap Lake

Cambodian Family

Street scene on the way to Tonle Sap Lake, Cambodia

Two Ox Power

Scene at market on the way to Tonle Sap Lake

At the Fish Market

Children at a market on the way to Tonle Sap Lake

Young Cambodians

Lotus field (nelumbo nucifera) with boat and small pier near Tonle Sap Lake

Lotus field with boat and small pier near Tonle Sap Lake

Inside a fishing village on stilts at Tonle Sap Lake (during the dry season)

Fishing Village

Two local fishermen approaching by boat on a klong (canal) close to Tonle Sap Lake

Approaching

A young Girl rowing on her way back from school in a floating Vietnamese fishing village on Tonle Sap Lake

Rowing back from School

Some very confident looking young locals in a fishing village near Tonle Sap Lake

Confident Cambodians

At a roadside stand for sticky rice on the street to Tonle Sap Lake, Cambodia

Sticky Perspective

At a roadside stand for sticky rice on the street to Tonle Sap Lake

Sticky Rice

Barbed wire at the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum in Phnom Penh, a former school converted into the Security Prison (S-21) by the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia in 1975

Horror

Sculls inside the stupa at the Killing Fields in Choeung Ek, outside of Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Killing Fields

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