> Siem Reap to Bangkok

Camboida – the land of beauty, faith, violence, corruption and people who tolerate it all with kind sad smiles

 

The awesome Angkor Wat, the biggest place of worship in the world, that was built to worship Vishnu, then turned into a Sivaite temple and is now one of the largest Buddhist holy places, with its pilgrims, children, monks and thousand-year-old stones that have seen it all:

 

Bayon – the temple of many faces

 

Ta Prohm – even trees are not that anodyne in the tropics

 

Bantei Srei, the rosy-coloured temple:

 

The Jungle – the Tatai river

 

Red earth – the way to Phnom Pehn (yes, these are those same killing fields…)

 

Some fruit? –

 

One night in Bangkok – makes a tough guy humble…

 

You find a god in every golden cloister –

 

and if you’re lucky then the god’s a she…

 

May Buddha let these good people have some peace and happiness