7-9 November 2003

Water Festival 2003 -- Vendors

The Water Festival each year draws hundreds of thousands of people to Phnom Penh from all over Cambodia.  It seems like every third person is selling something, but that is the nature of the Khmer people, to set up small stalls and booths to sell all sorts of things and earn a few cents a day or to have some other simple enterprise.  Pictured below are some of the people hoping to make some money from the Water Festival 2003.
Children's hats vendor

Brightly colored children's hats for sale. Quite a few of these were visible in the crowd.

 Sugar cane juice vendor

Freshly squeezed sugar cane juice. Cane stalks are pushed through a wringer to get the juice.

 Portrait photographers

Youths snap photos of people at the river and somehow get the finished pictures back to them.
 

 
Selling straw hats

Selling the straw hats available all throughout the festival.  Price: 12.8 cents.

 Sliced fruits and vegetable snacks

Many women sell trays of sliced green mangoes with spices and other fruits.

Cart full of limes and fruit

These two young women push a cart loaded with limes and other small fruits.

 

 
Selling hard-boiled eggs

Hard-boiled eggs

 Selling a hard-baked pastry

A hard-baked pastry

 Selling french bread

French baguettes
 

 
Selling water and popcorn

Popcorn and water

 Selling cold drinks

Cold drinks

 Selling more hard-boiled eggs

Cooking more hard-boiled eggs
 

 
Selling shaved-ice cold drinks

Shaved-ice syrup drinks

 Selling chewing gum, seeds, and chips

Chewing gum, seeds, potato chips

 Selling drinks and sunglasses

Cold drinks and sunglasses

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