Category: cambodia
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Day 12~ May 12th~ Cambodia
The children of the world are the only hope for its future if there is to be one… They are the ones who will carry on when we stop, who will live after we die, and who will break into the new realms that await the human race after we come close to giving up.…
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Day 11~ May 11th~ Cambodia
The Bayon, an exquisite temple of great significance. Constructed in the 12th century to face exactly east and roads lead to it directly from the gates at each of the city’s cardinal points, this Buddhist shrine still vibrates with accumulated potency. I visited it a little before sunrise and found myself alone safe for the monks…
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Day 10~May 10th~ Cambodia
“To keep you is no benefit. To destroy you is no loss.” The horrific motto of the Khmer Rouge, the movement whose guerrilla forces lead a genocide killing and torturing one fifth of the whole population of Cambodia in the 1970s. Cambodia had the misfortune of giving residence to the monster of war that tours…
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Day 9~ May 9th~ Cambodia
In Cambodia, like in many other developing countries on our planet, children find themselves needing to sell things, beg, wash car windows or do a multiple of other tasks for some extra money that could mean a meal for the day. It is always heartbreaking to see, no matter what country I was in to…
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Day 8~ May 8th~ Cambodia
I was riding a boat on the waters of the Tonle Sap around sunset. The sun was shining a very bright gold and there was light breeze that gently toyed with the surface of the water. It felt as though I was transported to a strange future, a post natural disaster of some sorts, where…
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Day 7~ May 7th~ Cambodia
There is a magical thing about children, which is the ability to use anything around them for creating a unique playground. I remember playing near our house in a Lebanese village jumping down a terraced field from one level to another hoping that no bones were broken, and making glue from tree sap and flower…
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Day 6~ May 6th~ Cambodia
“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” ~Confucius If there was an image that I feel could do better without words, it would be this one…
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Day 5~ May 5th~ Cambodia
On the largest fresh water lake in South East Asia, many Cambodian and Vietnamese families float… They live in floating villages, move around on floating boats and do almost everything on stilt houses and boats over the waters of the lake. The waters vary from one meter to 9 meters in depth depending on the…
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Day 4~ May 4th~ Cambodia
No matter how prepared you are when visiting Cambodia and despite all the photos you may have seen, meeting the stone buddha heads and faces in the jungles of Siem Reap can be an astounding experience. There is a great serenity in those faces, a wonderful calm even with the sense of eeriness, and they…
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Day 3~ May 3rd~ Cambodia
Upon meeting the Khmer temples of Cambodia for the first time and walking between their columns and galleries, I felt as though time had become elastic, no longer confined to my usual linear perception of it… Angkor Wat, the largest Hindu temple in the world, now a Buddhist temple, still in use religiously, haunting with…