Moira on the road

Your average day in Prey Veng starts with a Chinese lady who yells your order for coffee to the kitchen 30 meters away (effectively causing your brain to shrink from pain) and hearing the news of the day: 5 elephants in the north of the Kingdom are pissed off for some reason and so they have come to the main road to kick cars passing by. (Obvious but necessary note to self: never ever for any reason piss off an elephant.)

My two days -one and a half really- in Prey Veng were interesting, maybe less impressive that Kampong Cham and Siem Reap but full of amazing moments.

Passing by some city whose name I don't remember, I saw a woman giving rice to six or seven very young monks on the side of the road. Picture them all in a row, probably 7-8 years old, with their orange robes and their containers for food held out while she was filling them one at a time, with jasmine rice.

Then we crossed a bridge, and below in a big pool of brown water from yesterday's rain, a women was paddling to the centre in these half boats of theirs, open to one extremity. The water was like liquid milk chocolate, the soil all around light brown, the woman dressed in beige and brown tones. It was a perfect monochrome. I wish my photography skills were enough to match the beauty in this country.

Irrigation canal. It is not connected to any other canal so it just collects rainwater.

A woman on her rice field, with a kid and a cow

Kids watching us from the distance

Negotiating traffic :)

Me...always taking pictures. Rural bridge, it can't hold the weight of the car so we walked to our meeting

The health centre

Commune meeting at the local police post (the name on the board is still written in French!)

Now where are all these ducks running to???

...home of course!!!

Heading home, bye bye!