Nobody does ruins like the Cambodians. We’ve also been in Phnom Penh, in Kampot where the pepper grows, and in Battambang where the monks chant. September 2017.
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someone forgot his artificial limb by the golden dragon
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cambodia vietnam friendship monument
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monk on his way through wat botum park
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park rules
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royal palace
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the crown jewels are kept here
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people working on the roof of one of the buildings at the royal palace
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sample outfits
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silver pagoda
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stupa for the late king norodom
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albino elephant
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our guide
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first khmer dinner
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jill in a tuk tuk
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jill feeling right at home on a prudential bench
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bernd on a fitness bike
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coffin shop
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wat phnom
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incense
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little buddha in wat phnom
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gifts for the buddha
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the buddha
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jill and amanda
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view over phnom penh
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market
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dessert stall at the market
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family on a motor bike getting desserts
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fish
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market
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market
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dinner time
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tarantula
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creepy crawlies
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frogs
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choeung ek
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choeung ek
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choeung ek
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decorators on their way to the next job
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mobile bakery
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s21 prison
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s21 prison
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buddist monks
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cyclo tour
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in colonial times the best hotel in phnom penh now poor people live here
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fancy restaurant in the former offices of the bank of indo china
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once the best hotel in town
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laundry
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former police station
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jill enjoying her cyclo ride
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chinese temple
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inside the chinese temple
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motorbike washing
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former chinese temple
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former church
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church
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angry bird tower
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cyclo tour
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big new market in khmer
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big new market
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grand house and typical phnom penh wiring
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monks on their way to whatever monks do
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our hotel in kampot
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durian roundabout in kampot
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crab market in kep
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crab market in kep
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fresh seafood at the crab market
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crab market in kep
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crab market in kep
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you can get your crabs cooked by the ladies with the woks
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crab market in kep
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crab market in kep
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crab market in kep
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our tuk tuk needed water
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and petrol
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beach in kep
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people in kep are proud of their crabs
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bernd is where the pepper grows
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pepper farm
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pepper expert
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relaxing with a visitor
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every evening the fishing boats go down the kampot river to the sea
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sunset and firefly cruise
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low bridge
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offerings to the ancestors in the mekong express bus station
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wat pipetharam
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green man
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typical colonial street in battambang
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the old night market
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swings made out of metal
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snails
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cinema
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a school in battambang
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wat damrey sor
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scenes from ancient khmer history
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unusual cauldron type bins in battambang
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the battambang man - ta dumbong
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jill boarding the bamboo train
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bamboo train kit
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scary ride
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bamboo train driver
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bamboo train
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cambodian shuttle cock
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jill getting a foot massage
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jill and her new friend
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bernd floating in our swimming pool
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silkworms and crickets stir fry
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deep fried tarantula donuts
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jill tasting a fried tarantula
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scorpions salad
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jill eating a big fried scorpion
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bernd eating a fried scorpion
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jill enjoying a post temple beer
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quite full police box
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dr fish will see you now
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pub street in siem reap
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banteay srei
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banteay srei
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details of the carvings
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rice paddy next to banteay srei
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jill on our walk to kbal spean
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carvings at kbal spean
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fertility sign carvings at kbal spean
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steep steps up to pre rup
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be careful or else
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very steep steps
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nature has taken over at ta nei
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ta nei
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banteay kdei
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banteay kdei
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prasat kravan
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cows getting a wash near prasat kravan
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sunrise at phnom bakheng
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phnom bakheng
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sunrise selfie
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temple kitty
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phnom bakheng
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ta promh
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presumably fake dinosaur carving at ta promh
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one of the few trees that hasn't been roped off at ta promh
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ta promh
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jill hiding inside a tree
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elephant at east mebon
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ta som
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beautiful setting of neak poan
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neak poan
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bernd not wanting ten postcards for a dollar
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preah khan
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preah khan
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jill standing in a doorway a preah khan
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jill in a doorway quite close to the king
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four headed man wrestling seven headed snake
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tuk tuk driver having a rest
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temple fatigue at preah kho
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sunset crowd at bakong
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waiting for the sunrise at angkor wat
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sunrise at angkor wat
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angkor wat
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the pools at angkor wat
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carving
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steep steps at angkor wat no longer in use
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monk and hippies
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our tuk tuk driver saron
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south gate of angkor thom
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riding an elephant
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bayon
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bayon
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no sitting on the bar stools at baphuon
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baphuon
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the terrace of elephants
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dr fish
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jill having a foot massage
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bernd eating a tarantula on a stick
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jill eating a snake on a stick
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cambodian bbq
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with chicken pork beef squid crocodile kangaroo and laughing shark
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anniversary dinner at cuisine wat damnak