tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3053084942370158222024-03-16T08:09:51.402+07:00PHNOM PENHAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02310891552305650261noreply@blogger.comBlogger82125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-305308494237015822.post-69453047010555952162013-11-30T00:22:00.000+07:002013-11-30T00:32:10.834+07:00Micheline DullinMicheline Dullin is a French photographer who spent the years between 1958 and 1964 taking some amazing photographs of Cambodia. She was also for some time Norodom Sihanouk's official photographer. Some of her work will be on display this weekend on Sisowath Quay. <br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-305308494237015822.post-20712459224967024702013-11-22T17:40:00.000+07:002013-12-02T09:44:17.241+07:00Church of Som Bien In the distance in this photograph are the towers of the Church of Som Bien on Chrouy Changva. Unfortunately I don't know anything about this church other than that it no longer exists. The picture was taken sometime between 1946 and 1962.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-305308494237015822.post-27716986981472765332013-11-12T00:41:00.000+07:002013-11-18T19:45:47.874+07:00Hun Sen BoulevardA whole lot of attention was placed on the filling in of Boueng Kak
lake in central Phnom Penh in recent years. Much of this was
well-deserved, as it involved the eviction and displacement of thousands
of local residents. I've written about this in previous posts, it was a
public park in the early 90s but gradually became filled in with slums.
One reason I think it got so much attention was because it had a
backpacker area within it, so was noticed more. The view from the
verandas facing the lake was pleasant, especially in the evenings as it
was one of the only places to see the sunset in the city, in most other
areas this was obscured by buildings.<br />
However, a project that
dwarfs that one in comparison has been ongoing for the last few years,
and has received little attention in the media. The Boueng Tumpun
wetland/lake is about 10 times larger than Boueng Kak was, but as it
lies south of the city dyke at 271 not many have noticed. Again, I've
previously posted on this area. Boueng Kak was around 120 hectares, but
Boueng Tumpun is about 1000. It is also far more important in that the
main drainage from the city flows south to this wetland. It has been
farmed for morning glory and other plants for as long as anyone can
remember, and supported a large community of subsistence agriculture.<br />
The
filling in of the verges of the area began long ago, but was halted.
Around 2009 it became a major project, and although the municipality
claimed it was only going to build a road across it, to join Monivong
Boulevard with Highway 2 in Ta Khmao, this initial idea has been
expanded.<br />
The plan now is for a 60 meter wide boulevard with a
central division, and a park somewhere in the middle. It will be 9
kilometers long when completed, as a guess I'd say 4 km has been
graveled but not tarmacked yet, further than that is still just sand
fill. Retaining walls have been built at various points along the
length, so obviously there are plans for development along its length.<br />
The
official statements when filling in began stated that the plan was not
to fill in the major part of the wetland/lake, as it serves as a natural
filter for much of the runoff water/sewage that flows south from the center
city. This water then flows further south and eventually into the Bassac
River.It appears that this idea has been revised though and a number of
cross roads will be built across the wetland, and it is also apparent
that the western part has also had a considerable amount of filling in.<br />
Until
not long ago, it wasn't obvious how large these plans were, I've been
around the reclaimed area for a few years, but was amazed on a recent
visit how much progress has been made. Some of the roads may relieve
congestion on other over-used routes to the city, but there are big
plans for an expansion south, as can be seen from the pictures.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3Sangkat Chak Angrae Leu, Phnom Penh, Cambodia11.51854603184268 104.9273300170898411.502987531842681 104.90716001708985 11.534104531842679 104.94750001708984tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-305308494237015822.post-53902657203543502202013-10-24T23:31:00.001+07:002013-11-05T08:50:47.949+07:00Sen Monorom Park<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It's a bit of a stretch to call this a park, it's just a small triangle at the junction of Russian Federation and Monivong Boulevards. I'm not sure I've ever seen anyone actually using it as a park, it's just ornamental. Previously it was the site of a rather tired-looking PTT gas station, as you can see in the middle picture that was taken during Khmer New year, in April 2010. The gas station had existed for decades, in the background you can see the Canadia Bank Tower, which had only recently been completed and was at that time the tallest structure in the city. The bottom picture shows the fencing surrounding the statue of Ganesh that was mainly carved in-situ, it was taken in December 2011. The top picture shows the park as it appears today, with the almost finished Vattanac "boot" tower behind which dwarfs the Canadia tower in the foreground, it's at least 100 meters taller. It doesn't look a lot larger in the picture, but is actually quite a bit higher. The small park does certainly look a lot prettier than it did when the service station was there, although the statue to me is rather blocky in shape and lacks the natural flow and smooth curves which most ancient Cambodian statuary has. It's still a vast improvement on the previous garage. Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4Sangkat Monorom, Phnom Penh, Cambodia11.57131249209667 104.9179737898368811.571069492096671 104.91765878983688 11.571555492096669 104.91828878983688tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-305308494237015822.post-69876643626447786112013-09-05T12:36:00.000+07:002013-09-05T12:36:17.653+07:00Ting MongThese are what appear to be scarecrows commonly seen in the northern part of the country, but aren't used to scare crows, but to scare away evil spirits. They are often armed with fake machetes, guns or even rocket launchers.<br />
A friend took this picture in Kampong Thom province. What's unusual about this one is the "appendage" between its legs.<br />
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For more, check here: <a href="http://asiaobscura.com/2011/05/insanely-creepy-cambodian-scarecrows.html" target="_blank">Insanely creepy Cambodian scarecrows</a><br /><br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-305308494237015822.post-28798392888118548142013-09-04T23:57:00.000+07:002013-09-05T00:03:37.722+07:00Isolated VillagesPoom Kompong Roteah is a small village that is probably only 40 km from the city center. To get to it, you have to drive north on National Route 5, almost to Oudong, but then just past the new Prek Kdam bridge take a small turn off to the right along an unsurfaced, muddy and rutted road. A few kilometers later you have to get a small boat across the Tonle Sap river to the village. <br />
I've been there a few times over the years, and little has changed. I'd say it's quite typical of many of the small isolated villages away from any main roads in the countryside. The one "road" running through the village doesn't connect with the Prek Kdam bridge, so that's why you need to take a boat.<br />
Nobody has a car there, and on my last visit I was there for about 4 hours and saw one motorbike and one ox-cart go past. There isn't much or any money around, the people survive on subsistence farming, fishing and the odd bit of generosity from relations in the capital. When I checked the local shop they had barely anything to sell, the ice-chest had a few of those silver-packaged sweet drinks in it and a few jars of preserves. There was no ice in there.<br />
What I found interesting was the construction of some of the houses. I have relations there, and the village evacuated to the Phnom Da area in the early 70's because of heavy fighting in the area, and then eventually had to move to the capital as the fighting drew closer to the city.<br />
Some of the houses have concrete pilings and elaborate stairways that were obviously the bases of much nicer dwellings before the war destroyed them. Now they have woven structures on top, the cheapest building material available. One you can see in the pictures was built on the ground under the pilings, a very unusual arrangement in an area that sees regular flooding in the rainy season.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0Kaoh Chen Commune, Cambodia11.861093124882593 104.8021459579467811.857208124882593 104.79710345794678 11.864978124882594 104.80718845794678tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-305308494237015822.post-29526734539311003372013-01-17T00:37:00.000+07:002013-01-17T00:42:40.940+07:00Wat SarawanSaid to be one of the five original pagodas in Phnom Penh, in common with the other ones there are few original buildings in the compound. The nearby Wat Ounalom was supposedly inaugurated in 1443, but there appear to be few if any buildings that are more than a century old, and most are far more modern. Wat Sarawan is remarkable in that it contains what are arguably the most ancient Buddhist scrolls in the country. Written on parchment, these religious texts tend to decay in the tropical climate and a great many were destroyed or lost during the tumultuous years of the past few decades. <br />
One striking structure that remains on the site is a red brick tower that appears to be particularly ancient. The Serge Corrieras photograph of children playing in front of it in 1991 shows it looking on the verge of collapse. What is even more surprising is that in 2012 this building which was obviously refurbished in the subsequent years looks even older now. The colonial-style slatted windows are falling apart. As far as I know it is only about one hundred years old but one would be easily fooled into thinking it is much more ancient. <br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3Sangkat Chey Chumneas, Phnom Penh, Cambodia11.565891504244419 104.9266862869262711.56200250424442 104.92164378692627 11.569780504244418 104.93172878692627tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-305308494237015822.post-15970019810624725752013-01-08T10:45:00.000+07:002013-01-08T18:58:54.560+07:00January 7th 1979<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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After numerous incursions and massacres by Pol Pot's troops inside the Vietnamese border in 1977 and 1978 the Vietnam People's Army (PAVN) , along with the <span class="st">Kampuchean United Front for National Salvation (KUFNS) launched their invasion of Democratic Kampuchea on December 25th 1978. They encountered little resistance, and managed to liberate Phnom Penh on 7th January 1979. </span></div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1Boeung Keng Kang 1, Phnom Penh, Cambodia11.556179185996076 104.9244352313537511.554234685996075 104.92191373135375 11.558123685996076 104.92695673135376tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-305308494237015822.post-33342573806872124642012-12-21T16:17:00.003+07:002013-01-22T14:44:10.127+07:00Wat Phnom Plaque <br />
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This plaque on the southern slope of the hill commemorates the return of the western provinces of Battambang, Siem Reap and Sisophon to Cambodia after the 1907 Franco-Siamese treaty. The three women on the right side represent the three provinces, while in the middle sits King Sisowath. The first picture is from 1931, and shows a woman by the plaque on a barren-looking hill. Nowadays the gardens receive quite a bit more attention and foliage abounds. Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0Khan Daun Penh, Phnom Penh, Cambodia11.576153003633449 104.923109825439511.560597003633449 104.9029398254395 11.591709003633449 104.94327982543949tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-305308494237015822.post-18215819054123095092012-12-20T16:21:00.001+07:002013-01-22T14:47:41.025+07:00US Embassy 1965<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The bottom pictures show the building as it is in 2012, and the </span>USOM (United States Operations Mission) <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">building opposite which can be seen behind the crowd in the 1965 picture. The buildings are located on 126 Street and the one which has had a recent makeover was previously posted about <a href="http://phnompenhplaces.blogspot.com/2010/04/unchanged.html" target="_blank">Here</a> </span><br />
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0Sangkat Phsar Thmei 3, Phnom Penh, Cambodia11.570435179210385 104.9231956561279711.568490679210385 104.92067415612797 11.572379679210385 104.92571715612797tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-305308494237015822.post-21405534858068041562012-12-20T13:45:00.000+07:002012-12-20T13:55:22.792+07:00Wat Sarawan Building<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"> posted the top two pictures previously, mistakenly believing they were taken at Wat Ounalom. There is a very similar building in the grounds of that pagoda, but this morning I found the right one in the grounds of nearby Wat Sarawan. The top picture by Serge Corrieras was taken in 1991. The second by Chris Watson is from 2007. The bottom two are how it appears today. </span><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0Sangkat Chey Chumneas, Phnom Penh, Cambodia11.56698761096799 104.9262855609131311.563098610967991 104.92124306091313 11.570876610967989 104.93132806091313tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-305308494237015822.post-85349758524045553952012-12-11T12:17:00.001+07:002012-12-11T12:17:01.983+07:00Pharmacy on Street 106<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This building was in a decrepit state for some time and I wondered how they managed to add an extra floor to it when it was renovated. However it's obvious from the pictures that it was completely rebuilt rather than refurbished. The style of the original structure was replicated well, keeping it in tune with many of the older buildings in the neighborhood. That's a lot more than I could say for the hideous glass-fronted insurance building next door.<br />
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Those shots over Psah Olympic brought back so many memories. My house is on the bottom left corner, a 3-storied block my dad built in 1965. At the time much of the area behind the apartment blocks was sparsely built on; there were knee-deep ponds here and there, criss-crossed by muddy dirt roads, and lined with houses on stilts. In those days the roads you could drive a car on were the one that linked Wat Moha Montrey with the Chinese Embassy, and the one that runs from the Psah to the Tuol Svay Prey school. The latter flooded regularly too anyway. I used to fish for Trey Kranh behind my house (Tip: when fishing in Cambodian lakes use pieces of prahok for bait). The area behind Wat Moha Montrey crossed by that black sewer was a large swathe of grassy land where kids used to fly kites early in the year. Street lighting was unknown and it was pitch-black everywhere at night except over the roads immediately around the Psah and along Sihanouk Boulevard. Under the street lights, we kids liked to fool flying bats by throwing them stones which they mistake for prey. Blind as a bat as they say.<br />
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In those days the Psah itself was just getting established. Much of the Psah was enclosed by a metal fence. Until 1970, the dirt road was covered with red gravel. In a good northerly wind a fine red dust would get blown into the houses. Guess who got the job to sweep it all back to the street? The wide asphalted area at the top of the photos is where the bus station was. Buses that came there were from the southern part of the country bringing in farm produce. By the late 60’s at around 11 am the area was so busy that buses had to park all around the Psah wherever they could drop their cargo off. Smaller passenger cars (usually the trusty Peugeot 404 station wagons) also plied the routes from there. Country folk would come and ask to use our bathroom because they simply didn’t know where to go when nature called urgently.<br />
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Under the tiled roofed area on the left were the meat sellers. Next to them in the open air were the fish mongers. The vegetable sellers occupied the bottom left of the photo (opposite to where I lived). From there and over to the right of the picture there were sellers of dried fish, eggs and live ducklings, then the noodle stalls, and the Vietnamese food and dessert stalls. Finally it’s the bric a brac traders on the bottom right corner. In the early 1970's they sold anything from denim jackets to pilfered US army rations, backpacks, hammocks, uniforms - that's from where I got my first taste of tinned peanut butter and cream cheese. A Chinese circus used to provide entertainment in the grassy open air north of the roofed area. As it was impossible to charge a fee for the show, the astute performers would first draw up a crowd with a crazy round of drums and cymbals, followed by promises of a great spectacle on offer. After more drumming and even more hear-ye’s they would suddenly start to spruik vials of health tonics, packets of cure-alls, and the inevitable remedies for piles. Cambodians, including the fearsome Pol Pot, were especially terrified of hemorrhoids or reuss daung baht as known in Khmer. The real show begins only when the crowd has been sufficiently supportive of the marketing drive. The little white oblong structure on the left hand side of the bus station was where the military police were based. In the early 70’s, now and then they would catch some deserter, burglar or whatever, strip him to his underwear and bring him there. Now and then someone would throw a grenade in there too.<br />
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A bunker was set up in 1971 north of the Psah, abutting the iron fence of the Stadium. Many of us from the area around the Psah who were drafted into the militia to patrol the area at night, were also ordered to take turns guarding it. A seventeen year old by then, I had a choice between a M1 rifle, an M16 and an AK47. The AK was of course weapon of choice, but being junior I was only allowed the rifle. And so I would straddle the M1 over my bike’s handle bar, and set off for my 4-hour duty to “bamreur cheat” (serve the Nation). Instead of watching for the KR however I took the opportunity to while away with either some Emile Zola, or a translation of William Shearer's "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" borrowed from the Alliance Francaise. Poorly trained as I was, I would have “bamreur cheat” poorly anyway had the KR decided to attack the Stadium which by then had become a recruitment-cum-training centre for the Republican army.<br />
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Until 1973 while the battle raged around Phnom Penh's perimeters, I used to climb up at night to the flat roof of our apartment block to watch US planes drop their bombs. In the distance you could see sudden flashes of huge explosions against the night sky, and the soil churned up. Seconds later anything loose would rattle like in an earthquake, and you could feel the air displaced by the explosions literally blowing on your face. One morning on a day in August 1973 when the US Congress stopped all aerial support for their Khmer allies, I watched a Phantom F4 doing a few dive bombing passes somewhere beyond the undulating roof of the Russian hospital. At quieter times the odd AC47 gunship could be heard circling and spraying death down below with red tracing bullets. One night in late 1971 a huge explosion rocked Borei Keila to the north of our Psah, followed by hundreds of other explosions that lasted for a few days. Earlier some military genius had the bright idea of turning Borei Keila into a munitions depot not that far from the council of ministers, the US attaché’s office, the army headquarters, and the finance ministry. The whole place was so badly guarded anyway that once someone was able to fire a 107mm rocket point blank at the council of ministers from one of those remorques that you pedal from the back and which is used to transport blocks of ice from the market.<br />
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Anyway, back to our Psah. The fun part was Saturday nights when the area to the top right hand corner was choc full of food vendors. I used to go there for the pong tear kaun (hard boiled duck eggs nearing their hatching time), or sach ko aing, and an obligatory copy of the Nokor Thom Daily Sunday edition. Editor Soth Polin, cartoonist Ung Bun Heang, and poet Mao Ayuth spared no effort protesting the destruction of our society and lampooning the corrupt military elite. That was also when Ros Sereysothea’s strident Chnam Aun Dop Bpram Mouy offered urban youth a thrilling escape of sorts from the torment of the time. Some Khmericans baptized the song’s flat tinny sound as “garage” rock. Didn’t they know it was war bloody war and that the singers couldn’t afford a decent sound studio to do a decent recording? Normal Khmers have never ever seen a garage in their lives anyway until some of them ended up years later in Lowell MA or Long Beach CA. You get the gist.<br />
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Back again to our Psah. Now and then the KR would surprise us with a volley of 122mm Russian rockets with their tell-tale whirring noise. When they ran out of those the KR followed up with Chinese 107mm rockets. Not as scary but still noisy. Kids of my age would dare each other to be the first to run up to the roof and find out from the fire that followed the whereabouts of the rockets that had landed, and shout down the news to cowering adults below. I vividly recall one that landed with a sudden bang somewhere behind our house while I was studying logarithms. I have never forgotten the log rules ever since. By 1974 as the perimeters of the city shrunk under the KR onslaught, the stadium had become a heliport, and we watched those (Bell UH-1) Iroquois come & go like the Psah’s buses in more peaceful time. I could go on with the human misery that enveloped the Psah, the masses of refugees who slept anywhere in it's open spaces, fossicking the rubbish site for scraps; thatched huts on every inch of spare dirt, around the Stadium, under the water tower, every where in the Wat; and this old man whose hut I biked past and who was playing his Tro Khmer at dusk. As if it was yesterday.<br />
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The next time I set my eyes on my home again was early 1993, a few months before the UN elections. After the initial shock at the sight of this huge cemented monstrosity, I was thrilled to discover on the other hand that my house hadn’t changed at all. Its iron doors, windows, and front railings were all still in their original coat of paint - the very same one my dad and I painted our house with. The new occupant saw my heavy eyes and understood as I run my hand over those doors. How I missed my dad, and my brother, and the old man with the ashen face and the sound of his heart breaking Tro Khmer. And my Psah. <br />
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The top photo is the abandoned Olympic Market in 1979.<br />
The second shows Phnom Penh residents sheltering from a Khmer Rouge rocket attack on February 11th 1974, it was taken by Françoise Demulder.<br />
The picture of the sandbagged bunker in Phnom Penh in 1970 was taken by Dianne Sherman.<br />
The following pphoto shows a Douglas AC47 gunship firing, and the following is an F4 Phantom.<br />
The next picture shows a busy Monivong Boulevard in early 1975, and the final picture is the grounds of Olympic Stadium serving as a refugee camp in 1974.<br />
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This piece was originally posted as a comment on this 2010 post: <a href="http://phnompenhplaces.blogspot.com/2010/11/olympic-market-1979-and-2010.html" target="_blank">Olympic Stadium 1979 and 2010</a> . The author kindly rewrote it adding extra details. Many thanks to chhmar99@gmail.com for his outstanding contribution.<br />
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This picture shows troops from the NADK Division 703 Animal Husbandry Unit which was based around Boueng Tumpun in the late 1970s. The division was better known for guarding the notorious S21 or Tuol Sleng Prison. It looks like a moment of happiness, but although conditions were not as harsh at Boueng Tumpun as they were at the prisons the unit worked at, they were tough and troops suffered severe hardships while working there. The troops in the picture are wearing wrist watches which were generally a sign of high rank.<br />
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The picture comes from the excellent DCCAM book "Victims and Perpetrators."Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0Chamkardoung Blvd, Phnom Penh, Cambodia11.515013722769776 104.8796081542968811.390561222769776 104.72167965429688 11.639466222769776 105.03753665429687tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-305308494237015822.post-40352136208076544532012-09-23T16:30:00.000+07:002013-07-01T11:34:32.773+07:00Cambodiana Hotel<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The construction of the building that was to become the Cambodiana Hotel began in the late 1960s but was interrupted by the war that began in 1970. It became a military barracks during the Lon Nol era and was subsequently abandoned after 1975. In 1988 Singaporean investors re-launched the project and completed the construction. It was first opened as a hotel in June 1990. Many diplomats and journalists stayed there during the 1991-93 UNTAC period. It is now run by the Royal Group. </div>
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The picture shows a large body of water to the south of the hotel, which has long since been reclaimed land. You might also notice the rows of cottage like buildings in the triangular park between Sisowath and St 258, and further north the houses along the quay north of the palace where there is now a riverside park. The park at Wat Botum is much larger too, you can see a lot of trees around where the Bodyguard HQ is now. <br />
I'd guess this picture was taken around 1989 as the hotel looks almost complete other than the front grounds. There was a water sport complex which briefly became a casino in the late 60's in the area to the south, but the water is now part of Hun Sen Park and the Dreamland amusement park. </div>
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This statue is under a tree to the south of the entrance to the National Museum. There are many Vietnam-Cambodia Friendship Monuments in town centers all around the country. These were erected after the 1979 Vietnamese invasion. The statues are normally very large, for example the one below that is in the park in front of Wat Botum in Phnom Penh is about 6 meters high, and appears to be made of stone. They all have a common subject showing a pair of soldiers, presumably a Vietnamese one and a Cambodian one, carrying AK rifles, and then a woman holding a baby in front of them.<br />
What is unusual about the one in the museum grounds is its small size, the figures are smaller than life-size, and made from reinforced concrete. The weathering and lichen on the statue make it look very ancient, although it couldn't be more than 33 years old.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1Samdach Preah Theamak Lethet Ouk, Phnom Penh, Cambodia11.565176756374504 104.9294972419738811.563232256374503 104.92702974197388 11.567121256374504 104.93196474197387tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-305308494237015822.post-42622115153780209412012-07-14T00:54:00.001+07:002012-07-14T01:00:12.055+07:00Wat Phnom ClockThis giant clock, almost 20 meters wide, was a gift from China in the year 2000 and replaced a previous one that came from France and was installed in the early 1960s. The clock is in front of a monument commemorating the return of the western provinces of Battambang, Siem Reap and Banteay Meanchey from Thai control in 1907. The main reason I wanted to make this post was to show the incredible changes over the years, especially when you see Hopper Stone's picture from 1993. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">View around 1940</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nigerian UNTAC troops in front of a forlorn looking hill 1993</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A recent view.</td></tr>
</tbody></table>The Hopper Stone picture is from <a href="http://www.ethicaltraveler.org/" target="_blank">ethicaltraveler.org</a><br />
More of Hopper's work can be seen on his site: <a href="http://www.stonefoto.com/" target="_blank">stonefoto.com</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1Sangkat Wat Phnom, Phnom Penh, Cambodia11.575519395979017 104.9230814160644111.572706895979017 104.91763591606441 11.578331895979016 104.9285269160644tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-305308494237015822.post-13641721731285290912012-07-03T23:58:00.000+07:002012-07-04T00:08:43.008+07:00The Bells of Phnom Penh CathedralI made a post back in October 2009 about this cathedral which apparently was inaugurated in 1955. It was torn down in 1975, and its bells were thrown into the lake behind. They were later recovered and can be seen on the steps of the National Museum. I was working there recently and took some close-ups of the decorations on them. They are all quite common Christian themes such as crucifixes and the bleeding heart but unusual in Phnom Penh. There are two bells that are in good condition, and one of which only the top part remains.<br />
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<a href="http://phnompenhplaces.blogspot.com/2009/10/phnom-penh-cathedral.html" target="_blank">Here's the 2009 post on the cathedral.</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0Monivong Blvd, Phnom Penh, Cambodia11.576570460937134 104.916858673095711.568792460937134 104.9069881730957 11.584348460937134 104.92672917309571tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-305308494237015822.post-65127550358453108462012-06-22T15:28:00.002+07:002012-10-27T16:24:17.982+07:00Broken BricksThis series of shots shows the same building on the corner of St 130 and St 5 as it has changed over the years. The first shot is by the esteemed Serge Corrieras from around 1992. The next shows it in what I'd guess as around 2006. Then we see it transformed into the notorious "Broken Bricks" bar, an ongoing work of art until its demise in 2008. The following shots show it a few months later while it was being refurbished. They did an excellent job renovating this old building. The final shot shows it today in 2012, with foliage blooming outside.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1Khemarak Phomin, Phnom Penh, Cambodia11.571273076664765 104.9274587631225611.569328576664764 104.92499126312256 11.573217576664765 104.92992626312255tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-305308494237015822.post-89688522247994047922012-06-21T00:38:00.002+07:002012-06-21T00:49:41.899+07:00Scruffy Old TownIt's easily forgotten when we look at all the old pictures of the grand buildings of the administrative center and palace that outside of this the town was fairly scruffy and nondescript. Other than the quay and a few other solid buildings within a short distance from this there was little solid or fancy about Phnom Penh. An American traveler, Frank Vincent, had this to say about the place in 1872. The town, he wrote, was; " dull, nothing breaking the uniformity of its bamboo huts excepting a slender, pyramidical pagoda, one of the palace buildings, and two blocks of brick stores, recently built by the king; it resembles many of the villages along the banks of the (Tonle Sap River), only differing from them in size- in numbers of dwellings and shops." He continues: " As we sailed along the river, the first objects that attracted my attention were the small but neat buildings - chapel and schools - of the Roman Catholic Mission. Next we passed an old dilapidated steamboat, and back of this, on the shore, waved the national Cambodian flag - blue with a red border, and emblems of peace and plenty in the center ground. then came the barracks, where are stationed a company of French troops, and the residence of the Commandant or <i>Protecteur</i>, as he is styled<i> </i>, who represents French interests rather than His Majesty's....The city extends along the banks of the river for a distance of about three miles, and perhaps not more than half a mile into the interior; on that side there is a low embankment of earth, erected recently- at the time of Annamite trouble. There is no wall about (Phnom Penh), not even around the palace. The main road runs north and south along the river; there are a few cross-roads, but this is <i>the</i> street<i>. </i>It is about thirty feet wide, macadamised with broken bricks and sand, and lined throughout its whole length with little bamboo shops, the greater part owned by Chinese, many by Klings (Indians), and the remainder by Cambodians and Cochin Chinese. Many of the shops are "gambling hells"; some are used by opium smokers, the Klings offer for sale miscellaneous European goods, and the Cambodians silks and cottons; the Cambodians are celebrated for their manufacture of silk. The population is about 20,000, and embraces Chinese, Cochin Chinese, Klings and Siamese, besides Cambodians."<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">An aerial view of the city from around 1935</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A view of the Water Festival in front of the Royal Palace in around 1910</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The quay in front of the palace in the early 20th century</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A Buddhist procession in Phnom Penh in 1906 </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A floating village around the city in the early part of the 20th century</td></tr>
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A distant shot of Psah Thmei viewed from what is now Kampuchea Krom Boulevard, dating perhaps from the early 1960s. There is a huge contrast between the modern style hotels and buildings on Monivong and the traditional style housing in the foreground. Much of the area west of Monivong was almost rural at that time, which seems incredible as it's such a built up area now. <br />
This picture comes from the marvelous <a href="https://www.facebook.com/amazingcambo">https://www.facebook.com/amazingcambo</a> page. I've been collecting old pictures of Cambodia for years but there are lots of pictures on this page that I've never seen.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2Kampuchea Krom, Phnom Penh, Cambodia11.569107847076733 104.9171805381774911.567163347076733 104.9147130381775 11.571052347076733 104.91964803817748tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-305308494237015822.post-5711137546543709312012-05-19T17:35:00.003+07:002012-06-04T16:19:09.167+07:00Around Town<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A house on Monivong in 1946</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The monument to the dead that once stood in the park in front of the
French Embassy. The elephant heads around the base were recovered and
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Another city view from 1946.</td></tr>
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A few pictures of the bridges on the old canals. The lower two pictures are from 1946, the others are much older, pre-1930s.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0Cambodia-Japan Friendship Bridge, Cambodia11.586240030624261 104.9196910858154311.578462530624261 104.90982058581542 11.59401753062426 104.92956158581543tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-305308494237015822.post-33932934758413050052012-04-15T18:57:00.000+07:002012-04-15T18:57:30.382+07:00Street Art<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvg496EKLKPBvdcWYRodkG_0XZI4u-Li1aFOlLB5BEQfPBg1FRKL-Whn2Cj5iFxGEREDa1HZwS-0l_4uXktCi7lixALdMdNInCO_tefE-PeBiDL7c2OgVJIpnNFNSHWf5ViGF6M4bhFaN8/s1600/Image012.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvg496EKLKPBvdcWYRodkG_0XZI4u-Li1aFOlLB5BEQfPBg1FRKL-Whn2Cj5iFxGEREDa1HZwS-0l_4uXktCi7lixALdMdNInCO_tefE-PeBiDL7c2OgVJIpnNFNSHWf5ViGF6M4bhFaN8/s320/Image012.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />
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Street art is very unusual in Cambodia, there are a very few of the more obvious hip-hop influenced pieces around but this piece on Street 430 has a different look to it.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3