Tuesday, 6 December 2011

Land Mines & Palm sugar


Mock landfield, how many
land mines and trip wires
 can you spot?



4 on a bicycle
 
Jaki with missile found in
 Cambodian jungle

Land Mines uncovered by Aki Rai
founder of the museum and
 CNN hero 2010

 Land mines identified by their
country of origin and design.


 


My lunch- curry in coconut husk

Not my lunch- frogs

Palm Sugar Process






Weaving Palm leaves into sheath
 to hold sweets for sale
 Tam and Tyler feeding monkeys


Home from the fields


Temples of Angkor Wat

 Angkor Wat (temple city)
  • centre tower symbolizes Mt. Meru, smaller towers-other mountains in view
  • largest religious building in the world
  • surrounded by a 190m wide moat
  • sandstone blocks were harvestes 50 km away and floated down Siem Reap River on Rafts

bullet holes from civil war in 1970's

















Sunday, 4 December 2011

Day in the Countryside


Sitting in Sopay's mothers kitchen
 
ox cart-note sisal ties



Village men enjoying an early cup of palm wine.
Note the pregnant palm seller.
 
Rice drying in sun






 
 
Young boys collect snails to eat from muddy
river bottom