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Browsing Tag: Cambodia

design, life, travel

Cambodian floating village

We visited the floating village on Sunday, about an hour drive from Pursat, I don’t know the name of the village. The people who live here are descendants of the Vietnamese soldiers who came in the 1970′s to fight the Khmer Rouge, stuck around and intermarried with the Cambodians. What.an.experience. The sights and the smells […]

sewing, travel

sewing shop

I can’t help but be intrigued and curious as I walk past sewing and tailoring shops here in Pursat Cambodia. This was a particularly lovely view into this seamstress’s (or seamster’s) work place but then you can also look in to the house behind. By the way every Cambodian has a least one hammock ready […]

cycling, travel

two wheels are better than four

You see many bikes in Cambodia, not even close to the number of scooter-mopeds but definitely enough to smile about. I’ve been a bit of a chicken when it comes to taking pictures of cyclists point-blank. I need to just do it, have courage and remember that Cambodians are super friendly, smiling waving and saying […]