2006 Cambodia

Photo Journal of my visit to Cambodia in 2006. It includes various images in Battambang Province, Angkor Wat in Siem Reap and Choeung Ek and Tuol Sleng (or S-21 prison) in Phnom Penh. It also holds some beautiful pictures of Cambodian river-life.
Entry into the Kingdom of Cambodia at the Aranya Prathet-Poipet border crossing. : Cambodia Fuel-station along Cambodian roads. : Cambodia Gambling Cambodian style: The Rain-Game. These men bet when and where it is going to rain first. They bet against each other but also against other men on other roofs. They communicate their bets via mobile phones. Battambang, Cambodia. : Cambodia Rice-paddies in Battambang Province, Cambodia. : Cambodia, PanoCrop Battambang Province, Cambodia. : Cambodia
Killing Fields in a cave near Wat Phnom Sampeau - Battambang Province. The victims were thrown down these steep walls and left to die. : Cambodia Buddha statue near Wat Phnom Sampeau - Battambang Province, Cambodia. : Cambodia Roadside shop - Battambang Province, Cambodia. : Cambodia Wat Banan in Battambang Province, Cambodia. : Cambodia Fruit bats - Battambang Province, Cambodia. : Cambodia
Bamboo-train (Lorry) in Battambang Province, Cambodia. : Cambodia Bamboo-train (Lorry) in Battambang Province, Cambodia. : Cambodia Cambodian river-life; boatride from Battambang to Siem Reap. : Cambodia Cambodian river-life; boatride from Battambang to Siem Reap. : Cambodia, PanoCrop Cambodian river-life; boatride from Battambang to Siem Reap. : Cambodia
Cambodian river-life; boatride from Battambang to Siem Reap. : Cambodia, PanoCrop Cambodian river-life; boatride from Battambang to Siem Reap. : Cambodia Cambodian river-life; boatride from Battambang to Siem Reap. : Cambodia, PanoCrop Cambodian river-life; boatride from Battambang to Siem Reap. : Cambodia Cambodian river-life; boatride from Battambang to Siem Reap. : Cambodia
Cambodian river-life; boatride from Battambang to Siem Reap. : Cambodia, PanoCrop Cambodian river-life; boatride from Battambang to Siem Reap. : Cambodia Cambodian river-life; boatride from Battambang to Siem Reap. : Cambodia Cambodian river-life; boatride from Battambang to Siem Reap. : Cambodia Cambodian river-life; boatride from Battambang to Siem Reap. : Cambodia
Cambodian river-life; boatride from Battambang to Siem Reap. : Cambodia Cambodian river-life; boatride from Battambang to Siem Reap. : Cambodia Cambodian river-life; boatride from Battambang to Siem Reap. : Cambodia Cambodian river-life; boatride from Battambang to Siem Reap. : Cambodia Angkor Wat, Cambodia. : Cambodia, PanoCrop
Visiting Angkor Wat, Cambodia in the monsoon season. : Cambodia Sunrise over Srah Srang (Pool of Ablutions) basin - Angkor, Cambodia. : Cambodia, PanoCrop Sunrise over Srah Srang (Pool of Ablutions) basin - Angkor, Cambodia. : Cambodia Eastern face-tower of Banteay Kdei Buddhist monastery - Angkor, Cambodia. : Cambodia Buddhist monastery Banteay Kdei - Angkor, Cambodia. : Cambodia
Buddhist monastery Banteay Kdei - Angkor, Cambodia. : Cambodia Western face-tower of Banteay Kdei Buddhist monastery - Angkor, Cambodia. : Cambodia Western face-tower of Banteay Kdei Buddhist monastery - Angkor, Cambodia. : Cambodia Ta Prohm temple - Angkor, Cambodia. : Cambodia Ta Prohm temple - Angkor, Cambodia. : Cambodia
Workers at Ta Prohm temple - Angkor, Cambodia. : Cambodia Ta Prohm temple - Angkor, Cambodia. : Cambodia Really big bugs.... : Cambodia Ta Prohm temple - Angkor, Cambodia. : Cambodia Ta Prohm temple - Angkor, Cambodia. : Cambodia
Ta Prohm temple - Angkor, Cambodia. : Cambodia Ta Prohm temple - Angkor, Cambodia. : Cambodia, Cambodia Banteay Srei temple - Angkor, Cambodia. : Cambodia, Cambodia Banteay Srei temple - Angkor, Cambodia. : Cambodia, Cambodia Banteay Srei temple - Angkor, Cambodia. : Cambodia, Cambodia
Banteay Srei temple - Angkor, Cambodia. : Cambodia, Cambodia Face-tower at Ta Som temple - Angkor, Cambodia. : Cambodia, Cambodia Ta Som temple - Angkor, Cambodia. : Cambodia, Cambodia Preah Khan ("Sacred Sword") temple - Angkor, Cambodia. : Cambodia, Cambodia Preah Khan ("Sacred Sword") temple - Angkor, Cambodia. : Cambodia, Cambodia
Preah Khan ("Sacred Sword") temple - Angkor, Cambodia. : Cambodia, Cambodia Preah Khan ("Sacred Sword") temple - Angkor, Cambodia. : Cambodia, Cambodia Preah Khan ("Sacred Sword") temple - Angkor, Cambodia. : Cambodia, Cambodia Preah Khan ("Sacred Sword") temple - Angkor, Cambodia. : Cambodia, Cambodia Northern face-tower of the fortified city of Angkor Thom - Angkor, Cambodia. : Cambodia, Cambodia
Northern face-tower of the fortified city of Angkor Thom - Angkor, Cambodia. : Cambodia, Cambodia Halo around the sun caused by refraction of light by ice-crystals in the sky. This 'Divine' spectacle was enough to keep most Cambodians indoors - Angkor, Cambodia. : Cambodia, Cambodia Bayon - Angkor Thom, Cambodia. : Cambodia Bayon - Angkor Thom, Cambodia. : Cambodia Bayon - Angkor Thom, Cambodia. : Cambodia
Bayon - Angkor Thom, Cambodia. : Cambodia Bayon - Angkor Thom, Cambodia. : Cambodia Bayon - Angkor Thom, Cambodia. : Cambodia Buddhist monks praying near Bayon - Angkor Thom, Cambodia. : Cambodia Buddhist monks praying near Bayon - Angkor Thom, Cambodia. : Cambodia
Roluos, Cambodia. : Cambodia, Doors Representation of the five peaks of Mt. Meru - Bakong temple - Roluos, Cambodia. : Cambodia Drying rice near Bakong temple - Roluos, Cambodia. : Cambodia Buddhist monk heading to Bakong temple - Roluos, Cambodia. : Cambodia Boatride from Roluos to Kompong Phhluk, Cambodia. : Cambodia
Houses on stilts in Kompong Phhluk, Cambodia. : Cambodia Angkor Wat temple - Angkor, Cambodia. : Cambodia Angkor Wat temple - Angkor, Cambodia. : Cambodia Angkor Wat temple - Angkor, Cambodia. : Cambodia Angkor Wat temple - Angkor, Cambodia. : Cambodia
The rare Irrawaddy freshwater dolphins (trey pisaut) in the Mekong river near Kampi, Cambodia. : Cambodia Knotted gun monument in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. The monument was made from molten handguns. : Cambodia Wat Phnom - Phnom Penh, Cambodia. : Cambodia Wat Phnom - Phnom Penh, Cambodia. : Cambodia Wat Phnom - Phnom Penh, Cambodia. : Cambodia
Choeung Ek - Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Choeung Ek, the site of a former orchard and Chinese graveyard about 17km south of Phnom Penh, is the best-known of the sites known as The Killing Fields, where the Khmer Rouge regime executed about 17,000 people between 1975 and 1979. Mass graves containing 8,895 bodies were discovered at Choeung Ek after the fall of the Khmer Rouge regime. Many of the dead were former inmates in the Tuol Sleng prison. Today, Choeung Ek is a memorial, marked by this Buddhist stupa. The stupa has acrylic glass sides and is filled with more than 5,000 human skulls. Some of the lower levels are opened during the day so that the skulls can be seen directly. Many skulls have been shattered or smashed in. : Cambodia Choeung Ek - Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Choeung Ek, the site of a former orchard and Chinese graveyard about 17km south of Phnom Penh, is the best-known of the sites known as The Killing Fields, where the Khmer Rouge regime executed about 17,000 people between 1975 and 1979. Mass graves containing 8,895 bodies were discovered at Choeung Ek after the fall of the Khmer Rouge regime. Many of the dead were former inmates in the Tuol Sleng prison. Today, Choeung Ek is a memorial, marked by a Buddhist stupa. The stupa has acrylic glass sides and is filled with more than 5,000 human skulls. Some of the lower levels are opened during the day so that the skulls can be seen directly. Many skulls have been shattered or smashed in. : Cambodia Choeung Ek - Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Choeung Ek, the site of a former orchard and Chinese graveyard about 17km south of Phnom Penh, is the best-known of the sites known as The Killing Fields, where the Khmer Rouge regime executed about 17,000 people between 1975 and 1979. Mass graves containing 8,895 bodies were discovered at Choeung Ek after the fall of the Khmer Rouge regime. Many of the dead were former inmates in the Tuol Sleng prison. Today, Choeung Ek is a memorial, marked by a Buddhist stupa. The stupa has acrylic glass sides and is filled with more than 5,000 human skulls. Some of the lower levels are opened during the day so that the skulls can be seen directly. Many skulls have been shattered or smashed in. : Cambodia Choeung Ek - Phnom Penh, Cambodia. : Cambodia The Silver Pagoda - Phnom Penh, Cambodia. : Cambodia
The Silver Pagoda - Phnom Penh, Cambodia. : Cambodia The Silver Pagoda - Phnom Penh, Cambodia. : Cambodia Stupa of HM King Norodom Stupa containing the ashes of the King Norodom (1834-1904). Constructed in 1908 - Phnom Penh, Cambodia. : Cambodia Stupa of HM King Norodom Stupa containing the ashes of the King Norodom (1834-1904). Constructed in 1908 - Phnom Penh, Cambodia. : Cambodia Stupa of Princess Kantha Bopha The memorial sanctuary of the beloved daughter of the former King Sihanouk. Princess Kantha Bopha passed in 1952 at the age of four, succumbing to leukemia. The stupa was built in 1960. - Phnom Penh, Cambodia. : Cambodia
Tuol Sleng or S-21 prison - Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Formerly the Chao Ponhea Yat High School, named after a Royal ancestor of King Norodom Sihanouk, the five buildings of the complex were converted in 1975 into a prison and interrogation centre. The Khmer Rouge renamed the complex "Security Prison 21" (S-21) and construction began to adapt the prison to the inmates: the buildings were enclosed in electrified barbed wire, the classrooms converted into tiny prison and torture chambers, and all windows were covered with iron bars and barbed wire to prevent escapes. : Cambodia Tuol Sleng or S-21 prison - Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Formerly the Chao Ponhea Yat High School, named after a Royal ancestor of King Norodom Sihanouk, the five buildings of the complex were converted in 1975 into a prison and interrogation centre. The Khmer Rouge renamed the complex "Security Prison 21" (S-21) and construction began to adapt the prison to the inmates: the buildings were enclosed in electrified barbed wire, the classrooms converted into tiny prison and torture chambers, and all windows were covered with iron bars and barbed wire to prevent escapes. : Cambodia Tuol Sleng or S-21 prison - Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Formerly the Chao Ponhea Yat High School, named after a Royal ancestor of King Norodom Sihanouk, the five buildings of the complex were converted in 1975 into a prison and interrogation centre. The Khmer Rouge renamed the complex "Security Prison 21" (S-21) and construction began to adapt the prison to the inmates: the buildings were enclosed in electrified barbed wire, the classrooms converted into tiny prison and torture chambers, and all windows were covered with iron bars and barbed wire to prevent escapes. : Cambodia Tuol Sleng or S-21 prison - Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Formerly the Chao Ponhea Yat High School, named after a Royal ancestor of King Norodom Sihanouk, the five buildings of the complex were converted in 1975 into a prison and interrogation centre. The Khmer Rouge renamed the complex "Security Prison 21" (S-21) and construction began to adapt the prison to the inmates: the buildings were enclosed in electrified barbed wire, the classrooms converted into tiny prison and torture chambers, and all windows were covered with iron bars and barbed wire to prevent escapes. : Cambodia Tuol Sleng or S-21 prison - Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Formerly the Chao Ponhea Yat High School, named after a Royal ancestor of King Norodom Sihanouk, the five buildings of the complex were converted in 1975 into a prison and interrogation centre. The Khmer Rouge renamed the complex "Security Prison 21" (S-21) and construction began to adapt the prison to the inmates: the buildings were enclosed in electrified barbed wire, the classrooms converted into tiny prison and torture chambers, and all windows were covered with iron bars and barbed wire to prevent escapes. : Cambodia
Tuol Sleng or S-21 prison - Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Formerly the Chao Ponhea Yat High School, named after a Royal ancestor of King Norodom Sihanouk, the five buildings of the complex were converted in 1975 into a prison and interrogation centre. The Khmer Rouge renamed the complex "Security Prison 21" (S-21) and construction began to adapt the prison to the inmates: the buildings were enclosed in electrified barbed wire, the classrooms converted into tiny prison and torture chambers, and all windows were covered with iron bars and barbed wire to prevent escapes. : Cambodia Tuol Sleng or S-21 prison - Phnom Penh, Cambodia. From 1975 to 1979, an estimated 17,000 people were imprisoned at Tuol Sleng of which only twelve survived. The prisoners were selected from all around the country, and usually were former Khmer Rouge members and soldiers, accused of betraying the party or revolution. Those arrested included some of the highest ranking communist politicians such as Khoy Thoun, Vorn Vet and Hu Nim. Although the official reason for their arrest was "espionage," these men may have been viewed by Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot as potential leaders of a coup against him. Prisoners' families were often brought en masse to be interrogated and later murdered at the Choeung Ek extermination centre. Even though the vast majority of the victims were Cambodian, foreigners were also imprisoned, including Vietnamese, Laotians, Indians, Pakistanis, Britons, Americans, New Zealanders and Australians. : Cambodia Tuol Sleng or S-21 prison - Phnom Penh, Cambodia. From 1975 to 1979, an estimated 17,000 people were imprisoned at Tuol Sleng of which only twelve survived. The prisoners were selected from all around the country, and usually were former Khmer Rouge members and soldiers, accused of betraying the party or revolution. Those arrested included some of the highest ranking communist politicians such as Khoy Thoun, Vorn Vet and Hu Nim. Although the official reason for their arrest was "espionage," these men may have been viewed by Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot as potential leaders of a coup against him. Prisoners' families were often brought en masse to be interrogated and later murdered at the Choeung Ek extermination centre. Even though the vast majority of the victims were Cambodian, foreigners were also imprisoned, including Vietnamese, Laotians, Indians, Pakistanis, Britons, Americans, New Zealanders and Australians. : Cambodia Tuol Sleng or S-21 prison - Phnom Penh, Cambodia. From 1975 to 1979, an estimated 17,000 people were imprisoned at Tuol Sleng of which only twelve survived. The prisoners were selected from all around the country, and usually were former Khmer Rouge members and soldiers, accused of betraying the party or revolution. Those arrested included some of the highest ranking communist politicians such as Khoy Thoun, Vorn Vet and Hu Nim. Although the official reason for their arrest was "espionage," these men may have been viewed by Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot as potential leaders of a coup against him. Prisoners' families were often brought en masse to be interrogated and later murdered at the Choeung Ek extermination centre. Even though the vast majority of the victims were Cambodian, foreigners were also imprisoned, including Vietnamese, Laotians, Indians, Pakistanis, Britons, Americans, New Zealanders and Australians. : Cambodia Tuol Sleng or S-21 prison - Phnom Penh, Cambodia. In 1979, the prison was uncovered by the invading Vietnamese army. In 1980, the prison was reopened as a historical museum memorializing the actions of the Khmer Rouge regime. : Cambodia
Tuol Sleng or S-21 prison - Phnom Penh, Cambodia. In 1979, the prison was uncovered by the invading Vietnamese army. In 1980, the prison was reopened as a historical museum memorializing the actions of the Khmer Rouge regime. : Cambodia The National Museum of Cambodia - Phnom Penh, Cambodia. : Cambodia The National Museum of Cambodia - Phnom Penh, Cambodia. : Cambodia The National Museum of Cambodia - Phnom Penh, Cambodia. : Cambodia Phnom Penh, Cambodia. : Cambodia
Phnom Penh, Cambodia. : Cambodia Phnom Penh, Cambodia. : Cambodia Kampot, Cambodia. : Cambodia Kampot, Cambodia. : Cambodia Eerie abandoned casino in the spectacular ruined French colonial resort town at the top of Bokor Mountain. It was built in the 1920s to be used as a retreat from the heat of the plains - Bokor National Park, Cambodia. : Cambodia
Roadblock on our way to Popokvil Falls - Bokor National Park, Cambodia. : Cambodia Phnom Penh, Cambodia. : Cambodia Phnom Penh, Cambodia. : Cambodia