Cambodia

1 Angkor Wat Sunrise over Angkor Wat - it implies a 4.30 rise, but look at all the people who are willing to take this sacrifice (next pic)	2 Morning Crowd at Angkor Wat Masses struggling for the best shot of sunrise over Angkor Wat	3 Who is it? Angkor Wat was initially built as a hindu temple dedicated to Shiva, but was later converted into a buddhist temple. This statue looks like a crossbreed between Buddha and Shiva - whoever it is supposed to be, it certainly looked beautiful in the dusky light inside the temple	4 Carving The temples in the Angkor Wat area are full of beautiful carvings - the wealth of different motifs and the level of detail is simply overwhelming.	5 Another Carving
6 Yet Another Carving	7 Erik Erik (right) was my guide on a photo tour I took at Angkor Wat. Great guy and great photographer. He knows the best spots and the best times to take pictures aroung the temples and how to get the best out of the cameras. And yes: it is hit fault that there are so many fotos of carvings!	8 Sunset at Angkor Wat Note: the sunrise and sunset pictures at Angkor Wat where taken the same day! Sunrise: 05:45, sunset: 06:15 - it was a looong day at the temples :-)	9 Evening Mood at Angkor Wat	10 Ta Prohm In Ta Prohm, know as the "Tomb Raider" temple because scense for that movie have been shot here.
11 Carving at Ta Prohm	12 Tree Devours Temple at Ta Prohm	13 More Carvings	14 Temple Entrance Famed by Lara Croft	15 Oh Man... Another Carving By now it is probably obvious that I was kind of fond of these carvings. They where also a good taraget to play around with my camera and work on the bokeh.
16 Buddha Head Many of the temples around Angkor Wat lie in ruins - heaps of rocks, that sometimes release surprising details.	17 Angkor Thom South Gate South gate the the ancient city of Angkor Thom	18 Inside Bayon Hidden details in Bayon temple.	19 Faces at Bayon	20 Carving....
21 Angkor Thom North Gate North gate to Angkor Thom, with the typical four headed tower.	22 Artificial Lake at Preah Kahn Drowned trees give an ghosly atmosphere over thi artificial pond.	23 Sunbathing Lizard at Preah Kahn	24 Landmine Museum Collection of landmines at the landmine museum. A monument standing out to remember this dreadful legacy of the civil war.	25 Minefield at Landmine Museum (Mock) minefield at minefield museum near Siem Reap. In Cambodia, there are still hundreds of thousands of mines hidden in the countryside, leading to accident and death every day.
26 Little Girl Participating in Village Life	27 Boy Selling Postcards Unfortunately a common sight at all the temples....	28 Boy at Angkor Wat	29 Clash of worlds One girl selling postcards, the other daughter of asian tourist. They look so alike and yet live in different worlds.	30 Boat Harbour in Siem Reap
31 Towards Battambang On the boat from Siem Reap to Battambanag. Due to the low water, the trip takes 9h but is quite beautiful, passing by floating villages and beautiful nature.	32 Floating Village	33 Floating Church! No to be missed in a floating village: the floating church...	34 Life in the Floating Village	35 Never Too Early to Practice
36 Fishing Boats Typical fishing boats on Sangke river on the way to Battambang	37 Street Food Street food in Battambang market - yummie!	38 Drying Fish Drying fish in the streets of Battambang - in Asia everything is dried in front of the hous on the sidewalk: laundry, fish, fuit - you name it.	39 Battambang Train Station Shutdown train station in Battambang.	40 Killing Cave Bat flying in the killing caves at Phnom Sampou.
41 Killing Cave Killing caves at Phnom Samou - they got their name due to murders committed here during the civil war, where people where thrown down through a skylight above to their certain death.	42 Serendipity Beach Serendipity beach in Sihanoukville. Not a good idea to come here during Chinses new year, as the beach - and town - was spilled with chinese families.	43 Three Island Boat Tour	44 Phnom Penh Monument to the king, in front of his palace in Phnom Penh.	45 Killing Fields Memorial stup at the killing fields of Choeung Ek, reminding of the horrors of the ciivil war. On these grounds, dozends of thousands of Cambodian people have been murdered in most brutal ways and buried in mass graves.
46 Killing Fields Inside the memorial stupa at the killing fields.	47 S-21 Prison More dreadful reminders of the civil war at the Tuol Sleng museum, a former prison where tens of thousand of people have been tortured during the civil war.	48 Chilid Soldiers Picture of child soldiers at the Tuol Sleng museum. Pol Pots army consisted to a large amount of children and young adults.	49 Chiild Prisoner Shocking tesimonies of the civil war: foto of a child prisoner at Tuol Sleng museum.	50 Phnom Penh Street life in front of my hotel in Phnom Penh.
51 Phnom Penh Laundry day at Tonle Sap river in Phnom Penh	52 Phom Penh Sunset over Phnom Penh