For the two million people who come to Phnom Penh from the provinces for the Water Festival, it's a new and exciting scene. But for those who live in the capital, much of life is the same as any other day.

A security guard walking children in school uniform along a neighborhood street.

The fruit stall on Nehru Street was open as usual, and the oranges need to be arranged just right.

It's another day off from school so the gang is out to make the most of their free day. They probably ended up along the river.

Some construction site is still active today, even with the Water Festival, so these two young men load a truck with sand.

At another construction site, for a new hotel, these young men are lucky and have the day off. They live in the building during construction.

People have to eat and many people eat on the streets every morning, holiday or not.

Women carry heavy loads of food, even charcoal fires, around on bamboo poles, offering the cheapest of the fast foods.

Most people were coming TO Phnom Penh, but there were still plenty of people accepting the inflated prices to ride in overcrowded vans to a home province.

There were many fewer cars and motorcycles on the road during the holidays, but at big intersections the usual chaos reigned.

Close to the river, police put up barricades to block traffic from proceeding any further--unless you paid the bribe.

Thousands of the people who made their way to Phnom Penh had no relatives or friends to stay with and spent their days and nights in the parks.