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Cambodia has two seasons: hot and wet, and hot and dry. It’s always hot. The heat doesn’t prevent women from wearing gloves year round, though. Gloves on a hot day is better than letting the sun make your skin a little dark. At least this woman wears her gloves in style!
Can you imagine a greater encouragement and opportunity for tripping and falling on stairs than these shoes on the church steps at the Carmelite Monastery in Phnom Penh? And this is after half the people have left the church and removed their shoes from the steps! This scenario is repeated a million times a day as people slip off their shoes and sandals when they go into a building.
Today I had to go back to the doctor to change the bandage on my arm surgery. I was only in the waiting room five or ten minutes but that gave me a chance to take some other photos of the obsession with heavy wooden furniture and “objects” like the tall wooden cylinders for which a tree was cut down.
A seasonal favorite among the foods sold on the street is corn on the cob. It is sold either roasted or boiled and is usually offered from vendors pushing bicycles with a large bag of boiled or roasted ears of corn. It’s quite good!
One of my favorite fruits taste-wise is the pomelo. It’s quite a bit like a grapefruit but with a better taste. Eating a pomelo is not so pleasing, though. It has a huge soft rind around the fruit part and it takes some effort to get to what is edible. And the fruit part is not so readily edible as a grapefruit. There is a heavy protective skin around each section and it’s difficult to maneuver around that.
Here are some more photos, from Day 2 of the Water Festival
[All the photos are from The Khmer Times.]
We have intensive Deaf Leadership Training going on at DDP but it was interrupted Friday by a power cut.
It’s not unusual to see something new and different in Cambodia, something that isn’t so common in other places.
