A Royal Adventure on a Monk Hunt
June 24th, 2009
After wasting half of the day because of me taking out my braids and Serene feeling ill and then having a leisurely lunch - we were off.
Through back streets, around some bends, and then onto the Royal Palace. As we turned the corner - Whoo! Some of the scenes of Cambodia we'd been hoping for a waterfront with tons of people - enjoying life among a flock of pigeons. Spired Pagodas everywhere and monks galore.
Serene and I tried to be stealth, snapping pics unawares - though I'm not sure how stealth we actually were.
And onto the palace - which was expensive (for our budgets) and closed in ah hour . . . and we couldn't get in anyways because we were wearing tank tops - not allowed - and . . . back to the street.
Heading to a courtyard we decided, after seeing some more Monks, to go on a monk hunt. We found a street where they seemed to be stemming from. on the way, however, and as we tried to get some stealth pictures one of them started talking to me. He was really friendly: studying English and agreed to take pictures with us, pulling some of his friends in.
As we headed further down the street it turned out the source of the monks was a high school and they were everywhere.
They were in groups on the side of the road, in motorbikes, in trucks, everywhere . . . but unfortunately it was a little to obvious to take pictures (though I manged to snap one or two).
I'd been carrying bubbles around (in my backpacking backpack) with me for weeks now and as some had leaked in the bag I took a case with me - the perfect time!
There were a number of little kids running around and I lured them to me with the bubbles while Serene snapped some photos. The kids were SO cute and they absolutely loved the bubbles. It kept them occupied for probably around 45 minutes or more!
When I let Serene have a change to blow bubbles with them I definitely went photo happy. This one little boy had an incredible smile. It looked very much like my nephew Jaedon's and I wanted to capture it - one of those fast ones. Serene got a video though, so it was saved. ;)
When we finally left I left the bubbles with a girl who seemed to be sharing well. After rounding the corner, however, we looked back through a fence to see that a mini-war had started. She didn't have such a generous heart after all.
After wasting half of the day because of me taking out my braids and Serene feeling ill and then having a leisurely lunch - we were off.
Through back streets, around some bends, and then onto the Royal Palace. As we turned the corner - Whoo! Some of the scenes of Cambodia we'd been hoping for a waterfront with tons of people - enjoying life among a flock of pigeons. Spired Pagodas everywhere and monks galore.
Serene and I tried to be stealth, snapping pics unawares - though I'm not sure how stealth we actually were.
And onto the palace - which was expensive (for our budgets) and closed in ah hour . . . and we couldn't get in anyways because we were wearing tank tops - not allowed - and . . . back to the street.
Heading to a courtyard we decided, after seeing some more Monks, to go on a monk hunt. We found a street where they seemed to be stemming from. on the way, however, and as we tried to get some stealth pictures one of them started talking to me. He was really friendly: studying English and agreed to take pictures with us, pulling some of his friends in.
As we headed further down the street it turned out the source of the monks was a high school and they were everywhere.
They were in groups on the side of the road, in motorbikes, in trucks, everywhere . . . but unfortunately it was a little to obvious to take pictures (though I manged to snap one or two).
I'd been carrying bubbles around (in my backpacking backpack) with me for weeks now and as some had leaked in the bag I took a case with me - the perfect time!
There were a number of little kids running around and I lured them to me with the bubbles while Serene snapped some photos. The kids were SO cute and they absolutely loved the bubbles. It kept them occupied for probably around 45 minutes or more!
When I let Serene have a change to blow bubbles with them I definitely went photo happy. This one little boy had an incredible smile. It looked very much like my nephew Jaedon's and I wanted to capture it - one of those fast ones. Serene got a video though, so it was saved. ;)
When we finally left I left the bubbles with a girl who seemed to be sharing well. After rounding the corner, however, we looked back through a fence to see that a mini-war had started. She didn't have such a generous heart after all.
posted by Charles at 12:25 PM
1 Comments:
reading your posts now makes me remember details long forgotten. thank goodness for your detail oriented perspective of things. keep writing. your memories keep my memories alive.
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