Sunday, March 07, 2010

Your Scene: Catch of the day in Cambodia

Source: Los Angeles Times (California, USA)

As Paul Prewitt of Laguna Beach watched from the shores of Cambodia’s Tonle Sap, the largest freshwater lake in Southeast Asia, a woman and her children floated by with this reptilian passenger. “I wasn’'t sure whether the kids were playing with their pet snake or with their dinner,” Prewitt said. He captured the scene on this lake, which is better known for its harvest of carp, with a Nikon D-70. (Photo: Paul Prewitt)

17 comments:

Anonymous said...

Those holding the snake? shit!

Anonymous said...

Girls holding the damn snake..yep!

Anonymous said...

The goverment should kick those people out from the lake. It's look dirty, it not look good for the turist people came to see it. Kick all ah Youn out from the deport them back to Srok YOun veng.

Anonymous said...

The true owner of Cambodia

Anonymous said...

these are yuon folks who migrated to cambodia after 1979. the snakes are for sale.

Anonymous said...

when you travel to places like cambodia, you will appreciate life more back in your homeland of america. in america, we take everything for granted, e.g. the freedom, the affluency, the abundance, the good life, the plentiful, the opportunity for education, etc, etc... when you travel and saw how people live in cambodia for example, you appreciate what you have more and appreciate the freedom, the education, the opportunity, the thing you have or have not, etc, etc... it really opened you eyes which is not always bad, really!

Anonymous said...

i know, since the KR era, cambodia seemed to change forever, even the way people live is so refugee-like, there's a mentality of flight and fight with most khmer people. people only think about survival more than anything. even since 30 years past, cambodia still recovering from the KR tragic. i think it will take the whole new generation of the population, the future generation to overcome it. in the future the new khmer generation will only hear from the history book and from their elderly, etc what had happened in cambodia. it goes to show life goes on on this planet, whether in cambodia or elsewhere, life does go on, really! there will only be history books to study from in the future. believe it or not, we are living in history everyday because once it's gone, it's history, you know!

Anonymous said...

I wonder if people had acquire a taste for the leeches? I mean, since they seem to eat everything insight - why not leeches?

Anonymous said...

These little girls and her mom (?) in this picture were not born during the khmer rouge. And the vietnamese boat people have lived this way of life for centuaries even before they migrated to tonle sap.


It is poverty that condemns these poor yuon and khmer folks to live the way they live. However, even these people may be poor and live in that condition, they may not have the same stress levels that middle and low-income people in the advanced countries do, especially during this economic recession. They have lived this way regardless of the fluctuation of global economy

Anonymous said...

It may be it's an iel not a snake.

Anonymous said...

សួថា៖ តើសំណេះសំណល់ផ្សេងៗ គេយកទៅចោលឯណា?

Anonymous said...

hey, did you ever watch the tv program on the food channel? that guy andrew zimmer i think that's his name, the guy would eat anything that other people eat in all corners of the world. i mean, he'll eat anything other culture or people would eat, really!

Anonymous said...

Just another day of the Cambodian poor. Yes, the kids are holding the snake. Tonight, they are going to have snake soup. I hate snake. Dang it. The Yuons in Cambodia love eating snakes. The Yuons eat so many snakes that their faces become snakey and the snakes think that the Yuons are snake people. Lol.

Anonymous said...

Tonle Sap Lake are polluted with all YOUNs shits! they had put so much of their Shits in our Lake...i've never eat Fish, everytime i was there, alway eat chicken, duck from my aunt's farms...she's raising pigs,chicken, ducks, every morning i help them around...i agree, they need to clean up these people out of the Lake, it's make our country looks bad and dirty..?

Anonymous said...

Why our Gov't allowed people hung around, exercised infront of Royal Palace..? in Thailand, they never allowed people around or close to Royal Palace...like cambodia? i've seen people selling Krouch Chean, Kang Kep bok, and TRASHs are all over...river bank? i felt kind embarrassed, because all of the Tourist people there too..!?

Anonymous said...

"believe it or not, we are living in history everyday because once it's gone, it's history, you know!

10:43 PM"

NO 10:43PM! WE ARE NOT LIVING IN HISTORY VE MAKE HISTORY AND WE MAY REPEATTING IT! BUT NEVER LIVING IN IT YOU NEVER CAN GO BACCK TO PASS, FOOL!

Anonymous said...

"Why our Gov't allowed people hung around, exercised infront of Royal Palace..? in Thailand, they never allowed people around or close to Royal Palace...like cambodia? i've seen people selling Krouch Chean, Kang Kep bok, and TRASHs are all over...river bank? i felt kind embarrassed, because all of the Tourist people there too..!?

11:12 AM"

11"12AM, BECAUSE CAMBODIA IS A LAND FOR THEPEOPLE NOT FOR TOURIST!