Friday, February 23, 2007

In the Capital and surrondings...

Hi folks,

Here we are for a couple of snapshots of the capital of Cambodia, Phnom Pehn, which was considered for a long time as the most beautiful city of the French Indochina.

Visitors do not usually stay for a long time, but this city has something special, and the longer you stay, the more you like it...An important number of expatriates live here, most of them working for NGOs or simply as foreign language teachers. French touch can be felt almost everywhere, in the luxurious gardens, in the colonial French style houses or in names given to some government facilities, such as 'La Calmette' for one of the main hospitals...

Day-to-day life of cambodians and most of the tourists is concentrated along the riverside, local people play a sort of football with special balls similar to the ones used in badminton...They are virtually able to hit the ball in every position you can imagine...I tried to play once and I felt so ridiculous...it could be a good exercise for football trainings, will it be imported into Europe?!


Like in all big cities in the world, traffic is a main concern...lol


and like anywhere else in Asia, you can find every kind of goods in local markets, food, clothes, souvenirs...and spare motorbike parts!, nothing more relaxing than a 'siesta' between shock absorbers, ignitors and all the stuff...

It was cool to spend a couple of days there with Silvia, we then split, she flew back to Bangkok whereas I headed towards the northeast. Here you are a picture of her with a new fried we met there...
Next pit stop, Kratie before getting to one of the Cambodia highlights, Ratanakiri region!.

And that's all so far!. Read you soon!

Jona

1 comment:

silvia said...

Merci Jona pour ces pic's.
I have to say that for me one of the best photogenic moments in these 10 weeks is the spare motorbike market together with the hairdresser market, both in Phnom Pehn.
Also, that young man was nearly the only one selling spare bike pieces as most of them where women around 50 years old, that waited for the customers playing Bingo with motor screws. That was something to see!

Besos y continua publicando fotos porfa.