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 Post subject: Visual guide to Low Budget Cambodia
PostPosted: Wed Dec 11, 2013 9:21 pm  (#1) 
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Could you see on the right on the...cough..road 2 vaguely reddish and yellow but clearly oblique boards , well that the sign of the Hotel ...

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From the vaguely reddish and yellow but clearly oblique board is even possible see something vaguely similar to a Hotel , but not any path

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Yes very acid colours with that lights, well here i dramatized a bit , anyway the promised Hotel seems getting closer

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now as in a tale the dimension and prospective of the desired Hotel seems to shift continuously ...this because the point of view change constantly because the path force to the most wild turn, and passing from shadow to the direct impact with the sun...

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Now ...we may even see the entry , a bit narrow i should say , and some of the peculiar architecture

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But all this may raise a question, why on the earth i should stay there ? yes is cheap but are much other cheap , even cheaper all around with much more normal entrance ( that path is a risky path even the day because there are both big stones and big holes to stubble... after dawn will be suicidal without a electric light and much care ..)

I know ...but the balcony !

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The balcony and the garden !

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And on balcony are comfortable chairs table and the Wi Fi and the view is cool...

And also i must admit , that was the secondary entry there is a main entry with a big gate and lights ..
but this secondary entry lead to a narrow alley that anyway is only 15 meter long, after there is the very centre of Victory Hill
Instead the main gate is on a much better looking street that has the only defect to lead apparently nowhere

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 Post subject: Re: Visual guide to Low Budget Cambodia
PostPosted: Thu Dec 12, 2013 3:52 am  (#2) 
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To remove any doubt on the authenticity of the first photo of the series regard the very reddish yellow and oblique peculiar Hotel ensign this morning i photographed again ... even if a bit washed out it should be possible read
(except obviously after dawn ...)

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also i feared that my description of the narrow risky path that from the Hotel ensign go to the Hotel could seem fictional
NO , everything real :

Please follow me !

My room is just behind the corner , and this is the view from just behind a corner , the first floor balcony that look to the garden , most of the plant in the garden are medicinal plant

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Above the 2nd floor balcony ,much larger with armchair table books and the alike, usually very quit ,fresh and with a nice view
BUT supposing i want to exit ... :wh



Here the gate of the main entry , more then respectable as gate of a low budget Hotel .

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The Main Gate opens on a much more cured road then the secondary entry , a road no huge cracks and depths... everything neat and clean here alas that street , no matter what direction you chose , end nowhere :gaah

So is better use the secondary entry, here facing out of the balcony ..
The angle here reflect in subjective the huge steps i am going to climb down

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Yes you see now that the Secondary Gate !

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slow motion

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Now this path is really healthy after breakfast , help to burn any glucose excess ... i will discourage here high heels

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Almost at midway

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most done now

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a last look back

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why i still stay there ? :hoh Ah now i remember is for that crazy fresh balconies

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 Post subject: Re: Visual guide to Low Budget Cambodia
PostPosted: Fri Dec 13, 2013 1:16 am  (#3) 
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No replies..ok i know i should have posted of sunrise ad Angkor Wat temples, and the smaller temple around ..actually i should even have a few hundreds pics of the Angkor wat temples area, some taken in impossible light conditions ,other better i will post later

Still i feel a sort of bizarre interest for this Hotel , it's Secondary Entry with its risky path and the Main Gate on a road leading nowhere but for 2 dead ends just behind the corners...what a beautiful metaphor !

Anyway next would be temples ...

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 Post subject: Re: Visual guide to Low Budget Cambodia
PostPosted: Fri Dec 13, 2013 1:32 am  (#4) 
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These photos are actually awesome. You should take more photos of the balcony, and from the balcony into the back yard.

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 Post subject: Re: Visual guide to Low Budget Cambodia
PostPosted: Fri Dec 13, 2013 2:11 am  (#5) 
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Thank you for the Images, the place looks perfect :yes

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 Post subject: Re: Visual guide to Low Budget Cambodia
PostPosted: Fri Dec 13, 2013 6:42 am  (#6) 
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I think your photos are very beautiful PC. As EK mentioned, I think the balcony is very interesting. You can tell by all the peeling paint that it has been neglected because it could be a very beautiful landmark.
You sure travel around a lot... :teeth

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 Post subject: Re: Visual guide to Low Budget Cambodia
PostPosted: Fri Dec 13, 2013 10:04 am  (#7) 
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The little side path looks like the prefect place for a snake encounter :)

My wife and I remarked that many of our most cherished travel memories are about the hotels we went to, and the more humorous are usually associated with the worst-looking hotels (nothing happens in palaces).

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 Post subject: Re: Visual guide to Low Budget Cambodia
PostPosted: Fri Dec 13, 2013 10:16 am  (#8) 
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Great photos, PC! I, too, love the balcony photos and the landscape looks nice. Would love to go through those woods and explore.

ofnuts wrote:
The little side path looks like the prefect place for a snake encounter :)


That's exactly what I thought and I would hope to have a snake encounter. I'm a field guy and love snakes!

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 Post subject: Re: Visual guide to Low Budget Cambodia
PostPosted: Fri Dec 13, 2013 10:32 am  (#9) 
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Come on you two, they are disgusting.

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 Post subject: Re: Visual guide to Low Budget Cambodia
PostPosted: Fri Dec 13, 2013 10:48 am  (#10) 
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I plan on finding a couple today. In fact, here's me and a "friend" I caught in the field,taking a selfie!

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Ok, PC, I won't hijack your thread anymore!

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 Post subject: Re: Visual guide to Low Budget Cambodia
PostPosted: Fri Dec 13, 2013 2:18 pm  (#11) 
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@Graechan , Molly , Ek22 , Ofnuts , Fencepost
:hi5 :jumpclap i am really glad for your comments :tyspin


ofnuts wrote:
The little side path looks like the prefect place for a snake encounter :)


The little side path IS a perfect place for a snake encounter and are many sort of snakes in this area , several poisonous

Luckily snakes too do their best to avoid contact with humans , we are not a good prey so is only needed stumble heavily, stamp noisily each step to advice snakes that a sort of giant brute is coming , a brute so idiot that may even step on their nails if they don't move away from the path

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 Post subject: Re: Visual guide to Low Budget Cambodia
PostPosted: Fri Dec 13, 2013 2:23 pm  (#12) 
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As long as you had a great time, that's all that matters PC. Captures are wonderful; would make for some great paintings. :)

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 Post subject: Re: Visual guide to Low Budget Cambodia
PostPosted: Sat Dec 14, 2013 5:39 am  (#13) 
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Awe molly don't hate snakes, they are awesome. FP what kind did you catch, I can't see in the image. Details and all.

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 Post subject: Re: Visual guide to Low Budget Cambodia
PostPosted: Sat Dec 14, 2013 1:08 pm  (#14) 
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ek22 wrote:
FP what kind did you catch, I can't see in the image. Details and all.


It's just a black racer. They may be fast, but fast enough to outrun a fencepost!

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 Post subject: Re: Visual guide to Low Budget Cambodia
PostPosted: Sun Dec 15, 2013 1:15 am  (#15) 
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The woman directing the Hotel is really nice even if slightly bizarre
This morning she was drying some pills and show me is garden of medicinal plants

She is not selling medicines but just offer to the guest, and she wanted show me the ingredients (flower and plants rich of vitamin A, B,and so on)

Yesterday i visit some islands around , Hem i must say"Mama Medicine"(so she like to be call and so refers to herself ) detoxify pills may be a bit too effective when in rolling in a boat middle of sea with no toilet aboard

Anyway i discovered yet another possible use of empty water plastic bottles ,...i was quite perplex when the driver pull out from the boat innards a foam box full of used bottles with weird thing all floating in not too clean water

Luckily was not a proposal for cheap drinks but the distribution of fishing rods equivalent..well not exactly equivalent ut all the sea around the isle is forbidden to professional fishing so it is really full of fishes and everybody was able to get some

I suppose was a big fish barbecue later but i preferred interrupt the tour ,rolling on a sea and food smell intesify a bit too much the detoxifying effect of Mama pills , not a problem on a large and not populated island but les.
s nice on a little overcrowded boat

The battery of my computer went dead , computer still work if connected but is a PITA so i am not uploading now (at soon i move the computer a bit the plug move too ,electric connection jumps ,and then computer die and have to be restarted :gaah )

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 Post subject: Re: Visual guide to Low Budget Cambodia
PostPosted: Mon Dec 16, 2013 9:02 am  (#16) 
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Sorry for the delay ,here the pics

the islands

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hem above the real islands below as i saw them, maybe for side effect of sea-sickness

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Well the last 2 needs to be polished , i could not resist the temptation to upload because show how one of the most simple trick
(i simply re-saved changing imagine ratio ) may be effective :cool

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On the main island there are even a few bungalow in case you want remain overnight (...and you don't fear tsunami)

And now everything you should know on low budged fishing ....

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as you may see the used water bottles are multifunctional , they surrogate both cane and reel ,so everybody caught several fishes, (the older Cambodian woman got even big ones )

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 Post subject: Re: Visual guide to Low Budget Cambodia
PostPosted: Mon Dec 16, 2013 10:17 am  (#17) 
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OOPPSS

looking back to the photos of the islands i notice that they can't give a idea of the real dimension

So i add a last one because the Boat there, that was much bigger of our little boat, may give a better idea of the dimension of the island behind

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