Footprints in Cambodia: Siem Reap

Siem Reap was a better experience. It varies from city to city i suppose, and the people one meets. Angkor Wat was really pretty but the ugly sight of tourists unloading themselves from the buses was irksome. There were two ponds where one awaits to photograph that infamous reflected picture of the temple. Stood at the wrong sides for the mornings that i visited it. so be it. i took a morning tour of the insides and came out finally on the right side only to find the pond in a deplorable state of erosion. tourism is a bane. people come here with the money and all their pre-loaded assumptions of who they are and how they judge people. it was a disgusting side of human endeavour. capitalism is not all that a pretty picture and it will be an on-going thesis in pro-NGO conference papers.

A return to the romanticised past of the khmer kings.

Nita. Melts you with her character.
















Sir, you have candy?

It's rude i feel to have one's picture taken just like that and one can understand why they reach up instinctively to cover their face and ask for a dollar for a picture taken. It's equivalent to someone walking along orchard road, point a camera at you and snapping, thinking that he/she has captured a face of their exotic travels. how offensive can that be? i tried to stop myself at imitating a capture of the world with the distorted lens of the foreign eye. im not taking any NGC inspired shot okay?