Here is the place that Anthony and Fiona built - Sojourn (The Villa Siem Reap, phone: +(855) 063 761 036 Email: info@thevillasiemreap.com).
The out gate of our hotel
The in gate
Sojourn reception
This is the dining area. Can you imagine this presentation in a rural area of Cambodia? What a fantastic time Ellen and I had.
The pool
This is our hotel in the evening. There is an all night gas light that when it starts is like a rather large bon fire.
Night from our front door. There oare 9 or 10 bungalows. The location is just perfect for small walking adventures and culinary experiments
Morning sunrise - very cloudy
Sunrise over a pond of huge lotus blossoms
Eearly morning water buffalo
This young lady was fetching water from across the road. Later I would see her watering their rice plantlets
Village traffic
School kids
School kids
Many people wear dust masks. Most of the rural roads are made from a red clay - like North Carolina red clay - but the dust, when not raining is pretty terrific
Here is our water lady - filling her buckets
Exiting the lotus pond
Carrying water to the garden
Pouring water
Watering completed
Meanwhile back on the road - to the right
to the left
The sun is now escaping from the clouds and the yellowish light is rather wonderful
Here is the village
and our water lady - now with watering completed she is doing the dishes - well until I showed up and her sister thought it was a good idea to cease washing for the time beingg
Nice smile
Another nice smile
And nother warm smile
It has started to rain - and you can see the rain clouds in the distance
The village 7-11. The guy in the center speaks wonderful English
Petrol is sold, as in Indonesia and Malaysia, in bottles. Here they are particularly careful with the packaging - using Black label bottles with their distinctive labels.
I like the greens of the rice fields
A little girl
SHe just moved the cow peg (similar to a tent peg - for securing the cow)
Two huts
Just thinking - hmmmmmm
Then yummy yummy
A duck farm
This lady is making spring rolls -- seems everyone is making spring rolls
another view
The spring roll lady
another view
Rolling the roll
A working family
Two smiling girls
A faamily smile
Fresh meat for dinner - skinning a goat
later
later
Picking veges
C. Frank Starmer