Friday, March 20, 2009

a walk outside Siem Reap

children returning home from school

a mother prepares coconuts for us as her children watch


we stop to watch a woman making a rattan mat and all of a sudden the whole village arrives



Battambang to Siem Reap

morning coconut waffles by the roadside on a walk outside Siem Reap

Battambang to Siem Reap: we abandon the boat and the crew checks for the hole!!!

crispy fried banana fritters on our walk outside Siem Reap



Thursday, March 19, 2009

Kampong Chhnang

woman prepares lotus bouquet for Bhuddist party

we ride uptop on the ferryboat and our motorcycle rides below with the cows and pigs


boy carries palm juice collected from the treetops by his father


drive-by butcher shop!




Kampot and Kampong Chhnang

mixed messages at the shrine!




children play in the water hyacinths as their mothers and older sisters collect snails nearby



pig wash before the trip to the market





Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Kep and Kampot

the beautiful colonial buildings of Kep

the money changers in the market at Kampot - ATM only dispenses money in $US

crab dinner beachside in Kep - it doesn't get any fresher


arriving for dinner in Kampot




Kampot

salt fields viewed on our motorbike trip out of Kampot

filling the tank with regular in the Pepsi bottle or premium in the Black Label Whisky bottle!


wall outside a pagoda


street view from our balcony




Can Tho and Ha Tien

Bill crosses a stream on a 'monkey bridge'

a fashion statement cruising along the Mekong checking out the floating markets



road traffic in Vietnam as we approach the Cambodian border



crossing the border into Cambodia by motor-taxi