Christmas Day in Phnom Penh

25 December 2010

 

Here are more photos of people out and about on this Christmas morning--for them a Saturday like any other Saturday.

 See previous pictures.

Saturday morning classes at the university

The parking lot for morning classes at the School of Law and Economics at the Royal University

Students at Chinese school

Students of Chinese ancestry studying Chinese language and history on Saturdays to preserve their culture and traditions

An affluent pagoda

A nearly empty Buddhist pagoda on Christmas morning

"The Building," as it is known on the maps, a squalid, decaying Soviet-era apartment block

Selling coconuts

Selling Christmas coconuts

Tourists

Tourists near the waterfront

Disabled man

A man with a disability searching through garbage for bottles and cans and other materials to recycle

Beggars at the Catholic church

The remnant of the crowd of beggars that lines the entrance way to the Catholic church whenever the people come.

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