Photo Adventures with Curiosity and Learning

Phumi Boeng (Beng) Mealea is a temple about 40 km east of Angkor Wat - just off Route 6 as seen above. Like Angkor Wat, it is dated to about the 12th century. Below are a number of photos Chhoy and I took while climbing around the temple.

The day starts with the morning moon and sunrise

Morning sky

Sunrise

Full sunrise

After sunrise, I usually watch the kids riding to school

A couple of Buddhist monks on their way somewhere

A mom taking 2 kids to school

A masked rider

Treak Village Road

Each year, I photograph the members of this family. Somehow over the past few years, I've missed this young lady - so here she is

Gathering the rest of our team (cousins) - we head for Boeng Mealea, about 100 km from Sojourn - 3 hours on the back of Chhoy's motorcycle

Monks doing a bit of road work

Petrol is served in bottles of Johnnie Walker - Red and Black label

Riding along, I just tried to capture photos of rice fields and planting rice

Harvesting rice

New rice

Gardening

Catching a ride

Hauling rice

Hauling bananas

The road to Boeng Mealea

Motorcycle for three

More hauling rice

Motorcycle for 5

Fill-up Chhoy's bike

Hauling bags of rice grains

A home

Entering Boeng Mealea - there are reminders of times past

Cobra guarded entrance to Boeng Mealea

Temple side, displayed in the Greek style

A building

A door

Inside the building

Walking through a dark passage

Through an 800 year old window

Overgrown ruins

Chhoy and his cousins

Chhoy's sister (right)

Collapsed structure

Stone carving

A bridge

And on the other side of the bridge - a colorful caterpillar

Another structure

A dark passage

Dry moat

Overgrown structures

looking

Stone carving

A wall of windows

Overgrown everything

Stone carving

Leaving

Outside - a lizard - with flash

Same lizard - natural light

A dragonfly

Back at Sjourn - Miss Vanhorm was waiting for us

and Mr. Chhay. I had a small cold and they prepared hot lemon tea for me

C. Frank Starmer

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