Sea & Sand

Suosadai,

I’m in Cambodia, been travelling along the coast from central Vietnam, the Mekong Delta which is Vietnam today but historically is a part of the Khmer empire… and now along the south coast of Cambodia.

It’s a world of sea and sand, but not the usual world of sea & sand you’re imagening….

A vietnamese fishing armada:

A Lotus

Nature seems to go a little bit crazy around here… Instead of a little water in the desert, there are sand dunes surrounded by lakes with floating fields of lotus. Unexpected patches of sand in the middle of forests and plains.

White sand dunes, surrounded by lake and river

Diana taking photos from the top

Red sand dunes, surrounded by a sub-tropical forest

Get ready for this picture… It’s really unbelievable!

How much better can it get?

The whole gang: Dez, Diana, me, Charlotte and Liam

Good times in the sea… this is a genuine party boat, there’s everything you can possible think of on board.

It’s cruising all day, you’re free to jump in the water whenever you choose to…

and now, for a big announcement…
I know it was long since I said something of content – This is my new girlfriend & me:

“Ve etmaser eleiha, ve ashir la,
Ve ekana la – lo emas ba leolam,
Ve eshavea le mifgash ita kol laila,
Ve la mikdash evne ba hol asher al sfat ha Yam”
(Sorry, I do not have hebrew installed on the computer here…)

It’s quite amazing to see the differance between Vietnam and Cambodia in terms of the general vibe,
I’ve been traveling through the same geographical and ecological area, but the feeling of travel extremely varies from one country to another.
It felt like intense premediatated travelling in Vietnam and intense degenerative chilling-out in Cambodia.

The Khmers looks a lot more like the Indians, it warms my heart
Look! I can count to five in Khmer: Mui, Pui, Bai, Buon, Pram.
The khmers count in sets of five, they don’t always use the decimal system… so 6 would be Five+One…
Pram Mui, Pram Pui, Pram Bai, Pram Buon, Dub.
Dub is a nice word for 10
In addition to that, the word for “yes” (if spoken by a female) is “Jaa”.

We have Dub and Jah… maybe it is possible to build a reggae nation here!

Have a great day,
me.

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