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| Looking a bit up the street to get more of the flavor of the area.
| Chicken salad. Good, and pretty. I liked the herbs. We asked and were
told that the leaf it was served in was a cut banana flower.
| Fried pork with bell peppers and pumpkin. Also quite decent.
| Dessert fruit (pineapple, watermelon, and dragon fruit) and rolled wafers.
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| The Blue Pumpkin also made fruit drinks. This is a "lolita", supposedly
composed of apple, ginger, lemongrass, and wild honey. I think the
description is off--apple should be pineapple--but, regardless, it's good
and all the ingredients are clearly there. Sweet.
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| Downtown Siem Reap
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| Colonial-era architecture at Le Grand Cafe, just down the street from The
Blue Pumpkin.
| Le Grand Cafe's wide arcades allow one to sit in the restaurant or on the
sidewalk while getting a breeze in the toasty weather.
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| The War Museum
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| Some of the weapons of war in the War Museum.
| Yet more tanks and artillery guns. They were arrayed throughout the
museum's large grounds.
| An amphibious assault vehicle.
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| Artisan Village (Les Artisan d'Angkor)
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| Metal workers in the artisan school (Les Artisan
d'Angkor).
| Stone carvers.
| Wood carvers.
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Sorry, the village-provided guide hurried through the rooms so quickly
that I didn't get to take pictures of all the different types of crafts
being made.
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| Richshaw Ride to Floating Village
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The first of many pictures I took from the tuk-tuk that we took to get to
the fishing village. Because we were traveling fast, I didn't have time
to frame. I didn't even have time to consciously decide "I want to
photograph that" before it was too late. Hence, I pressed the shutter
button often and deleted the poor shots later. I ended up with more good
shots than I expected.
This is a roadside pottery shop.
| A plant shop?
| Straw buildings, some on stilts.
| More buildings on stilts, these next to a river.
I guess during the wet season the river floods?
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| A bridge and person walking along the road.
| Rice paddies?
| Yup, this part of Cambodia is flat.
I love the sense of scale given to the photo by the figures in the center.
| A rickety stick building.
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A village by a hill.
Artificially brightened.
| Tiny fragile houses perched on stilts, with laundry out front.
Sorry about the focus.
| More solid houses, likewise mounted on stilts.
| Another village.
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| I like the brightness of this picture: the green fields, the orange wood,
the colorful clothes hanging on the line.
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| Floating Village
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| The end of the river with the floating village. My, there's a lot of
longboats.
| A kid standing casually on a (seemingly otherwise empty) boat coming into
dock. Many more longboats are anchored in the background.
| A panoramic movie taken from the boat soon after we left the dock.
| A women standing (fishing?) in the river?
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