Category: Culture

Today was the first day of the new year, a day for visiting parents and elder relatives so much of the action was indoors.  To show a more interesting side of the celebrations, here are more pictures from yesterday, New Year’s Eve.  Click here to see them.

 

Today the new year celebrations began with the evening reunion dinner but before that there was time for offerings for the spirits of the ancestors and to purchase a roasted pig for the family dinner.  Click here to see how it happened.

Tomorrow is New Year’s Eve and the big reunion dinner to bring all the family together.  Today families are scurrying to accomplish last-minute preparations.  Click here to see what they are doing.

Most of the time most Cambodian men wear sandals rather than shoes.  When they do wear shoes, though, it’s not unusual to see them in long, pointy-toed styles that may have come from A Thousand and One Nights.