Our road trip from Phnom
Pehn to Siem Reap was a six-hour ride on a private bus. As on many of our
previous trips, our CEO Beam allowed Bill to sit up front beside the driver
where he was able to take some great camera shots.
There was road construction for
many miles out of the city and recent rains had flooded the ditches and
the flat land under the stilted huts. The Cambodian countryside with
its lush tropical vegetation, agriculture fields and processing units,
roadside activity and small villages offered many fascinating sights and
both of us took far too many photos -- digital cameras are a bit of a mixed
blessing.
Every curve and every km offered
something that we wanted to capture for future memories: Khmer buildings,
temples, French Colonial structures, rustic tin-roofed shacks on stilts,
well-to-do tile-roofed concrete houses, vendor stalls, structures for monks,
factories, livestock, canals and streams, farm tractors, waves of motor
bikes, and construction projects with bamboo: houses, bridges, bridges,
etc. with bamboo scaffolding everywhere.