Well, here's the second wind of my pictures. Some of them will be nature and others will be from different places. Sometime soon, I'll upload a whole host of pictures to my photo site - so that you can see them in a much bigger size, and also a better quality. I hope you enjoy. thank you for travelling Vicarious Airways....and we hope to see you again soon.



This is the Lotus flower, and its synonymous with the Bhuddist temples - everytime you see a flower represented on a temple wall, they're trying to show the Lotus flower. I unfortunately couldn't fine a stone-etched carving of one, but these flowers are everywhere there's a pond. Most of the ponds were initially meant to be moats, to protect the Wat's (Khmer for temple) however, for whatever reason, many of them have dried up, leaving small ponds located all over the grounds of the Wat's.










This poor child "snuck" through the ticket gates (I wondered, when I saw how easily they get through, why I even paid for a ticket in the first place...) They are notorious for being quick to pose, offer a great smile that melts your heart, and then, just when you're ready to leave, they'll hound you until you pay them for their smile...and that smile that made it onto your camera? Trust me, it doesn't smile when you don't pay them what they want...
The next two pictures are from the "floating village" of Tonle Sap - that's right, the whole village is on boats throughout the river. Even their school and outdoor gymnasium (donated by South Korea) are on floating pontoons. Some of these houseboats are outfitted with refrigerators, televisions, and electricity (I'm not joking). The kids scoot around on these buckets, fully propped up by sitting on empty water bottles - they move up to the boats, and then hang on until someone gives them money. Then they scoot off onto the next tour boat going through their "village"...It was an amazing show of persistence and survival, but also depressing, as these people don't even have easy access to fresh drinking water, it has to be delivered every day, in small amounts each day. A stark contrast to the "wealth" of the city dwellers...








Believe it or not, yes, that snake is real. It's actually on exhibit to try and drag in guests to this houseboat restaurant. It was non-poisonous, and really quite beautiful to feel; its skin was soft and smooth. This restaurant also had an aligator farm, which consisted of aligators tossed on top of each other, waiting to be eaten (which, coincidentally, you could do on demand...you could even pick which one you wanted) Welcome to the floating village...care to try some aligator?








This was the only picture I could bear to take of the Killing Fields. The actual site is incredibly calming, and even though it was an unnerving calm, It was amazing to see such beautiful butterflies among hole after hole of mass graves. It was not one of the places I dwelled for a long time. God shows beauty sometimes in the most harrowing places. I can't imagine what the Khmer's must have gone through....

This was the only picture that I took in S-21, the Khmer Rouge's main torture prison. The images and things I saw there will stay with me forever, and I could not bear to take pictures; it didn't feel right. Each of the torture rooms (this was for a political prisoner) at present had flower petals spread through the rooms. Even though not watered, they seemed to bloom as if by a calming power- I nearly cried in some of the rooms...

Well, that's all I thought I would include in my blog set of photo's. As I mentioned earlier, I'll post pictures sometime on my photo site- they'll be bigger, and better resolutions, so stay posted. I hope you enjoyed the pictures - if anyone soon is heading out to that part of the world, I would highly recommend visiting Cambodia - it will be a trip you'll never forget...