Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Forget Paris/ Holiday in Cambodia



This has got to be the most amazingly surreal country I have ever been in. This country of 13 million still considers itself a unified kingdom, a country and a culture after thousands of years. To make a brute analogy it is like landing in the capital of the Roman Empire in 2008. These people take everything Khmer as a matter of self identity and for good reason.
Khmer food, Khmer language, Khmer music and Khmer people are like nothing you can encounter outside of Kampuchea.

I know it sounds premature but leaving here will be an extremely hard desicion...



Meet Misteh Oun, cool like the "aircon" systems he repairs by day, as his brothers say, "he drink too much but he bery hansom"

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My favorite Cambodian Ms. Chieh-Ihn


2 comments:

jack said...

wow...

lmtease said...

Really?! I'd love more descriptions... were you there for the new year? Are you using "holiday" as in "vacation"? Or as in "celebration"? Are you British or American? Que bueno que estas disfrutando la cultura alli. Quiero ver tus fotos! Te quiero!