[Okayyou]

In early November I left Sri Lanka and turned the corner of the globe to begin my journey toward home. First stop as I inched back to North America, Cambodia. Another country with a recent bloody past. Unlike Sri Lanka, Cambodia had arrived on the international tourism scene about 10 years ago. Siem Reap, the local town outside the famous temple complex of Angkor Wat, was nearing the end of a decade long building boom; 5 star hotels and all you can eat buffets were a dime a dozen. About 40 miles outside the city is a lake Tonle Sap, the largest in South East Asia. Fishing villages line its shores, flooded in the dry season, dry and walkable in the summer. If you can avoid the crowds and find the less traveled path, Cambodia is worth a visit. I was there less than a week so I don't have too much to show. Hope you enjoy.

I got up at 4:30 am for this shot. So did 2,000 other tourists :(
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My guide made me a soup with some of these snakes. Not so good.

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Vietnamese that were living in Cambodia. Most likely they stayed after the war in the late 1970s.
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That's all!

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[ShadowMaster]

Well rounded & beautiful! I really love your threads man!

[pEte fiSt iN Ur fAce]

Fabulous pics...fabulous place. Thanks for sharing with us.

[pip]

excellent. thanks

[Bedhead]

Amazing!!!

[Robert Pence]

Gorgeous photos, beautiful people, peaceful-looking place. This thread left me smiling; thanks.

[sabotai]

Great thread, I really enjoyed the telephoto shots and the human side you usually show. I'm jealous of your international travels!

[Yankee]

All I can say is WOW what a great tour! Thank you so much, we hardly ever see images from that part of the world here.

[Expat]

Wonderful to see places I don't expect to see in this lifetime. Brilliant work. (not so thrilled about the snakes;))

[Travis007]

Land of such exotic beauty!

[C.Lan]

If only I could see such beautiful locations as the ones you've put up. Know it must have been really interesting travels... You'll have to let us see more if you have them! Stay camera-friendly.

[Urban Zombie®]

Damn...wow.

[ColDayMan]

That spider is beautiful.

[Ayreonaut]

Everything here is wonderful. I guess by now I should come to expect that from your threads.

[rockyi]

Excellent photos!

[Sekkle]

breathtaking. I love all the life you're able to capture in your photos. Thanks again for sharing with us.

[Paradox21]

That spider is beautiful.

Meh. Not as beautiful as the bowl of fish heads!

(stellar shots, by the way, Okayyou!)

[stepper77]

Stellar all around...people...architecture...nature...thanks!

[diskojoe]

Great thread, I really enjoyed the telephoto shots and the human side you usually show. I'm jealous of your international travels!

Aren't we all.

[Austinlee]

Awesome. Great stuff & good work.

No way i'd eat a bowl of snakes though.

[bunt_q]

Wow, as always.

With my travel companion's ever-weaker stomach, I'm not sure what would've marked the end of my photo-taking for the day (if not the end of my trip): the snakes, the fish heads, or the spiders. Probably any of the above.

[Cementglow]

That's a lot of cut off fish heads.

[giovanni sasso]

bowls of snakes, bowls of fish heads, and this guy ...

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"whatever floats your boat."

not quite sure how i missed this the first time around, but i'm glad it's here again. excellent as usual. i wouldn't feel too bad about the other tourists at angkor wat; when i'm at a mystical place like that and there's a ton of other people (my closest example is multnomah falls), i just try to remember that everyone's there for the same reason i am. unless it's somewhere like times square, in which case i'm not there to be herded like cattle and dodge cabbies because the asshole in front of me from kansas doesn't know how to cross a street and SQUEEEEE at the sight of the 'naked' cowboy. doesn't seem like cambodia has too much of that though.

monkeys really do eat bananas. how about that!