Photo Adventures with Curiosity and Learning


Dec 26, 2008: Villages near Sojourn

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

dec 26 5485 sojourn out gate

The in gate

dec 26 5488 sojourn in gate

Sojourn reception

dec 26 5644 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.

dec 26 5649 sojourn dining

The pool

dec 26 5490 sojourn 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.

dec 25 5282 sojourn evening

Night from our front door. There oare 9 or 10 bungalows. The location is just perfect for small walking adventures and culinary experiments

dec 26 5292 sojourn night

Morning sunrise - very cloudy

dec 26 5309 sunrise

Sunrise over a pond of huge lotus blossoms

dec 26 5330 sunrise lotus

Eearly morning water buffalo

dec 26 5338 buffalo morning

This young lady was fetching water from across the road. Later I would see her watering their rice plantlets

dec 26 5343 fetching water

Village traffic

dec 26 5351 village traffic

School kids

dec 26 5356 school kids

School kids

dec 26 5357 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

dec 26 5363 mask lady

Here is our water lady - filling her buckets

dec 26 5376 fill bucket

Exiting the lotus pond

dec 26 5388 fetching out

dec 26 5392 fetching out

Carrying water to the garden

dec 26 5379 carrying water

Pouring water

dec 26 5382 pouring water

Watering completed

dec 26 5403 watering finished

Meanwhile back on the road - to the right

dec 26 5404 road right

to the left

dec 26 5405 road left

The sun is now escaping from the clouds and the yellowish light is rather wonderful

dec 26 5411 morning buffalo

Here is the village

dec 26 5414 mornring 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

dec 26 5418 water girl

Nice smile

dec 26 5420 smile

Another nice smile

dec 26 5421 smile eyes

And nother warm smile

dec 26 5423 water smile

It has started to rain - and you can see the rain clouds in the distance

dec 26 5425 village storm

The village 7-11. The guy in the center speaks wonderful English

dec 26 5429 morning shop

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.

dec 25 5427 black label petrol

I like the greens of the rice fields

dec 26 5445 green house

A little girl

dec 26 5451 little girl

SHe just moved the cow peg (similar to a tent peg - for securing the cow)

dec 26 5456 cow peg

Two huts

dec 26 5462 2 huts

Just thinking - hmmmmmm

dec 26 5464 hmmmm

Then yummy yummy

dec 26 5470 yum yum

A duck farm

dec 26 5483 duck farm

This lady is making spring rolls -- seems everyone is making spring rolls

dec 26 5587 making spring rolls

another view

dec 26 5592 making spring rolls

The spring roll lady

dec 26 5593 spring roll lady

another view

dec 26 5594 spring roll lady

Rolling the roll

dec 26 5602 rolling roll

A working family

dec 26 5609 working family

Two smiling girls

dec 26 5610 2 girls smiling

A faamily smile

dec 26 5625 family smile

Fresh meat for dinner - skinning a goat

dec 26 5629 skinning goat

later

dec 26 5632 skinning goat

later

dec 26 5638 skinning goat

Picking veges

dec 27 5476 picking veges

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C. Frank Starmer

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