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  • Six boatmen paddle their canoes homeward to their stilt village near the shores of Tonle Sap lake, Cambodia.  They are seen from behind, the tight row of tall homes on the shore beyond.
    Cambodia_Tonle_Sap_KHM200602-195.jpg
  • Six boatmen paddle their canoes homeward to their stilt village near the shores of Tonle Sap lake, Cambodia.  They are seen from behind, the tight row of tall homes on the shore beyond.
    KHM200602-195.jpg
  • Blue painted shop, canoe tied up alongside, framework of a new structure beyond.
    Cambodia_Tonle_Sap_KHM200602-174.jpg
  • Tonle Sap, near Khampon Khleang : fishing village on stilts.  Wooden ladders separate two to three levels of the houses.  A quirky version of a high rise dwelling.
    Cambodia_Tonle_Sap_KHM200602-199.jpg
  • Several neighboring houses in a floating village on Tonle Sap.  One person in the center is doing laundry in the lake water.  There are other indications of daily living.
    Cambodia_Tonle_Sap_KHM200602-178.jpg
  • Tonle Sap lake :an enclosed  fish tank in the deck of a floating restaurant.   It seems crowded with lively splashing and jumping fish who are likely to become someone's meal soon.
    Cambodia_Tonle_Sap_KHM200602-390.jpg
  • Tonle Sap lake police checkpoint near Chong Kneas includes a room where the policemen rest.  A motorcycle helmet hangs on the wall, together with clean shirts.  A hammock and television set indicate how rest hour time is passed.  The otherwise empty room has a quiet, peaceful atmosphere.
    Cambodia_Tonle_Sap_KHM200602-385.jpg
  • Front view of a stilt house with access ladder standing in the middle of a planted field off the rural road leading to Tonle Sap lake.
    Cambodia_Tonle_Sap_KHM200602-202.jpg
  • Boat trip by outboard on Tonle Sap Lake to visit floating fishing villages. Woman paddles homeward in the bow of her dugout canoe.
    Cambodia_Tonle_Sap_KHM200602-183.jpg
  • Tonle Sap lake : schoolroom with children (boys and girls ) ; one boy blowing bubble gum.
    Cambodia_Tonle_Sap_KHM200602-408.jpg
  • Man in a white hat steering a large motor barge packed with household goods and several family members chugs toward the camera on its way to one of the floating villages.
    Cambodia_Tonle_Sap_KHM200602-191.jpg
  • Tonle Sap lake : a girl of about 10 years, wearing a red backpack, sits in the dugout prow, paddling three little boys who sit behind her.  They are all going to school.  The dugout was given to the school by the Grand Circle Foundation to help ensure that the kids have transportation to get to school.
    Cambodia_Tonle_Sap_KHM200602-392.jpg
  • Cambodian man who survived the Khmer Rouge period holds out the kind of locust he and others ate to survive.
    KHM200602--378m.jpg
  • Angkor Thom: a skinny little boy fishing in the rubble-filled city moat using a torn fish net; Bayon temple face towers beyond.
    KHM200602-039m.jpg
  • Tonle Sap lake : three children rowing to school.  An older girl in the bow wields the paddle; two younger boys are seated behind her.  All are cleanly and neatly dressed.
    KHM200602-411.jpg
  • Angkor Thom : Naga balustrade on the entrance causeway over the moat.  Close up of deity head, hand, and foot.
    Angkor deity KHM200602-351.jpg
  • Angkor Thom: entrance causeway with gods and demons holding naga.
    KHM200602--093.tif
  • Woman paddles homeward in the bow of her dugout canoe.  Two stilt houses are seen in the lake around her.
    KHM200602-183m.jpg
  • Apsara dancers perform at a Siem Reap restaurant and night club. Closeup of gesturing hands, elaborate costume, bracelets, and hair ornaments.
    KHM200602-160.tif
  • Angkor Wat : carved wall reliefs. West gallery, battle of Kurukshetra between Kauravas and Pandavas. Detail of running line of warriors.
    Angkor Kurukshetra KHM200602--050.jpg
  • Tonle Sap lake : enroute to Khampon Khleang, illustrated instructional sign about safe water and irrigation, with a Red Cross symbol.   The pictures urge separating potable and irrigation water.
    KHM200602-170.jpg
  • Angkor Ta Prohm, perspective view down a corridor, orange-robed monk pausing in the distance.
    KHM200602-147.jpg
  • Orchestra of land mine victims playing outside Banteay Srei temple, Angkor.  All have lost one limb or another.
    KHM200602-087 .jpg
  • Incense seller outside a Buddhist shrine in the Angkor Wat temple precinct.  The wall behind him has a small sculptured relief of Apsara dancers.  He is middle aged, rather good looking, and his face seems timid and anxious with a core of strength and determination underneath.
    KHM200602-045.jpg
  • Female guard at Banteay Srei seated in the window frame of the temple.
    KHM200602-118.jpg
  • Angkor Thom, Bayon, four faced towers of the temple.  The giant heads, each facing a cardinal compass point as protection, may be portraits of Jayavarman VII, the king who built the temple XII century.  This head wears a broad, satisfied smile.
    Ancient_Khmer_king_head_KHM200602--2...jpg
  • Angkor Wat : view from the  east just after dawn, seen from the surrounding forest of trees and shrubbery.  The tallest tower dominates the scene.
    Angkor_Wat_exterior_east_sunrise_KHM...JPG
  • Angkor, Banteay Kdei: shallow relief of a pair of apsara dancers from the so-called "Hall of the Dancers".  The temple is said to have been built as a Buddhist monastery.
    apsara_Banteay_Kdei_detail_KHM200602...jpg
  • Bakong, near the town of Roluos, is the oldest temple in the Angkor Archaeological Park (9th century).  View of the central pyramid of five levels, of brick and sandstone, reconstructed during the 1930s from original building parts.  The pyramid symbolizes Mount Meru of Hindu cosmology.
    Angkor_temple_Bakong_Roluos
  • Angkor Wat: shrine worker collecting money offerings from a Buddhist altar within Angkor Wat. One of the sacred pools visible outside the doorways.
    Angkor_Wat_interior_KHM200602_089.jpg
  • Angkor Wat: west entrance gateway and the 820 foot long causeway, looking toward the temple.  Subsidiary buildings just visible in the distance.  The long approach is meant to convey the journey from earth to heaven in the temple precinct.
    Angkor_Wat_exterior_west_KHM200602_0...jpg
  • A group of seven survivors of land mine explosions earn a living by performing traditional Cambodian music in the Angkor Archaeological Park.  They also sell CDs of their performances.  They are seated on the ground in the dappled shade of the Angkor forest, their prosthetics and crutches scattered around them.  They are outside the temple of Banteay Srei, frequented by tourists.
    Land-mine-musicians-Angkor-KHM200602...jpg
  • Angkor Wat: wal reliefs; Battle of Kurukshetra, details of charioteers, soldiers, horses, elephants.They run to the right in rhythm, holding lances and shields.
    Angkor_Wat_sculpture_relief_KHM20060...jpg
  • Angkor forest : trunk and crown of a rubber tree, looking upward.
    rubber_tree_KHM200602-129.jpg
  • Angkor Wat, Naga figure on fence surrounding temple terrace, dirt road into forest beyond.
    Angkor_Wat_exterior-Seven-headed naga
  • Angkor, Ta Prohm temple walls and buildings clasped in vast tangles of tree roots.
    Angkor_temple_Ta_Prohm_KHM200602-134.jpg
  • Angkor Thom: entrance causeway with gods and demons holding naga.
    Angkor_Wat_detail_sculpture_KHM20060...jpg
  • Group of seven musicians playing traditional Southeast Asian instruments provide concert music and offer CDs of their performances for sale, outside one of the Angkor temples.  All are amputees, victims of land mine explosions, and this is how they earn a living.  One man, hand to his mouth, is actually playing the melody on a broad leaf.
    KHM200602-088 (1).jpg
  • Incense seller outside a Buddhist shrine in the Angkor Wat temple precinct.  The wall behind him has a small sculptured relief of Apsara dancers.  H is middle aged, rather good looking, and his face seems timid and anxious with a core of strength and determination underneath.
    Portrait-KHM200602-045.jpg
  • Angkor Wat : carved wall reliefs. West gallery, battle of Kurukshetra between Kauravas and Pandavas. Detail of leader in chariot
    Angkor Kurukshetra KHM200602-049.jpg
  • The lead monk, older than the other two, wields a silver-headed staff, while his two followers walk respectfully behind.  The lead monk looks authoritatively at the camera; the other two pretend not to notice.
    Three-saffron-monks-KHM200602-041.jpg
  • Passenger's view from a Siem Reap tuktuk, beneath its roof,  with driver (in helmet), guide (in green official guide's shirt) and a scattering of other tourists on foot deciding where to begin their explorations.   The pavement is rain - slicked.
    Angkor_visitors_tuktuk
  • Vertical format view across moat in which temple towers are reflected.
    Angkor_Wat_exterior-sunset
  • Angkor Wat : view from the east just after dawn, showing most of the temple and platform on the south side.
    Angkor_Wat_exterior_east_KHM200602-3...jpg
  • Angkor, Banteay Kdei, side view of west gopura in the afternoon.  Built by Jayavarman VII in the late 12th century of poor quality sandstone, the structure sags rather sadly.
    Angkor_temple_Banteay_Kdei_KHM200602...jpg
  • Distant towers of the Bayon (temple) seen from outside the west gate of Angkor Thom.  overhanging trees of the surrounding forest visible on either side in a picturesque aspect.
    Angkor_Thom_Picturesque-forest-scene
  • Angkor Thom, row of plastic chairs, waiting for tired tourists to rest and drink water, outside one of the ruined temples ( prasats )
    Angkor_Thom_visitors-KHM200602-287.jpg
  • Angkor Thom: supporting wall of terraces of the elephants held up by a row of squatting caryatids in high relief. Top of the wall is uneven and Naga balustrade above broken in places, as the structure slowly deteriorates.
    Angkor_Thom_terrace_elephants_KHM200...jpg
  • Siem Reap : musicians performing sacred music during a Buddhist religious holiday.  Two circular kong thoms, a couple of oboes (sralai), and drums, are visible.  The group plays outdoors under an awning.
    Cambodian Buddhist kong thom player
  • Angkor Thom: relief sculpture of three apsara dancers wearing triple conical headdresses and long skirts.
    Apsara_Angkor_sculptures_KHM200602-0...jpg
  • Angkor Wat : modern Buddha shrine within the temple, its figure of the Buddha having also four pairs of arms as a Hindu figure of Shiva.
    Buddhist_Hindu_deity_statue_KHM20060...jpg
  • Angkor, Ta Prohm temple walls and buildings clasped in vast tangles of tree roots. The perimeter wall of Ta Prohm is clasped by a silk-cotton or kapok tree's buttress roots.
    Angkor_temple_Ta_Prohm_exterior_tree...JPG
  • Angkor Wat : carved wall reliefs showing the Kurukshetra War described in the Mahabharata; detail of two commanders on horseback, two more just behind them.  Extremely fine low relief sculpture.
    Angkor_Wat_interior_relief_KHM200602...jpg
  • Angkor Thom: Bayon, sculptures of apsara danceres in high relief, with panels of caraved foliage
    Angkor_Thom_sculpture-detail_KHM2006...jpg
  • Banteay Kdei : woman guard knitting quietly and alone in a corner of the ruins; Apsara dancer reliefs on nearby pillars.  Dappled shadows cast by overhead foliage.
    Angkor_temple_Banteay_Kdei_interior_...jpg
  • Angkor, Ta Som : view through a sseries of doorways, with bright sun and deep shadow.
    Angkor_temple_Ta_Som_interior_KHM200...jpg
  • Tonle Sap lake : schoolroom with children (boys and girls ) ; one boy blowing bubble gum.
    KHM200602-408.jpg
  • Full length portrait of a single dancer in full traditional Apsara costume in white with red and gold trim, elaborate gilded headdress, arm and ankle bracelets.  One foot is slightly raised, in mid-step, arms in a traditional gesture.  She looks directly at the camera.
    KHM200602-157.jpg
  • Yound woman wearing the official guard uniform of a long grey dress with shoulder insignia, over which she has draped a dark pink scarf.  She is seated in a window embrasure at one of the Angkor temples (Banteay Srei).  She wears a faint but serene smile.
    Cambodian woman guard at Angkor KHM2...jpg
  • Angkor Wat, closeup of two Apsara dancers and panel of foliage ornament.
    Angkor_Wat_Apsara dancers_KHM200602-...jpg
  • Ta Som : gopura, closeup of the head and face
    Angkor_gopura-Ta_Som-KHM200602-251.jpg
  • Angkor, Ta Prohm temple walls and buildings clasped in vast tangles of strangler fig tree roots (ficus gibbosa).
    Angkor_temple_Ta_Prohm_KHM200602-148.jpg
  • Angkor, Ta Prohm temple walls and buildings clasped in vast tangles of tree roots.
    Angkor_temple_Ta_Prohm_KHM200602-145.jpg
  • Detail of a relief of the red sandstone sculpture that completely covers the temple of Banteay Srei, Angkor.
    Angkor_temple_Banteay_Srei_detail-KH...jpg
  • Angkor Thom: Bayon, sculptures of apsara dancers in high relief, with panels of carved foliage
    Angkor_Thom_Bayon_apsara dancer _KHM...jpg
  • Angkor Thom, Bayon temple, wall relief with scenes of battle between Khmer and Cham warriors using elephants, horses, chariots, and various weapons.  They wear tunics and fitted shorts, with bare feet.
    Angkor_Thom_Bayon_sculpture_relief_K...jpg
  • Angkor Thom, Bayon, four faced towers of the temple.  The giant heads, each facing a cardinal compass point as protection, may be portraits of Jayavarman VII, the king who built the temple XII century. A couple of tourists, one wearing a kaffiyeh, walk by the doorway in front of the sculptured tower.
    Angkor_Thom-Bayon -visitors-KHM20060...jpg
  • Angkor Wat, visitors exiting along the causeway toward the west gate or gopura, visible in the distance.
    Angkor_Wat_exterior_west_KHM200602-3...jpg
  • Angkor Wat: third or upper level with steep stairs up to the central tower and tourists struggling to climb them.
    Angkor_Wat_interior_towers_KHM200602...jpg
  • Angkor Thom: Bayon temple: two Cambodian boys looking out one of the temple window embrasures, gazing at the camera as they are seated on the sill.
    Angkor_Thom_Bayon boys KHM200602-017.jpg
  • Angkor Thom, west gate from the outside.  A hiker with backpack looks back toward the city.  Two other figures nearer the gate.  Gigantic heads on top of the gate.
    Angkor_Thom_gopura_visitor_KHM200602...jpg
  • Angkor Ta Prohm, perspective view down a corridor, orange-robed monk pausing in the distance.
    Angkor_temple_Ta_Prohm_interior-KHM2...jpg
  • Angkor . Banteay Srei temple enclosure and moat, showing central towers.  Three quarter view from across its moat.
    Angkor_temple_Banteay_Srei_exterior_...jpg
  • Angkor Wat : carved wall reliefs. West gallery, battle of Kurukshetra between Kauravas and Pandavas. Detail of leader in chariot
    Angkor_Wat_interior_relief_KHM200602...jpg
  • Shallow relief of a trio of apsara dancers on a wall of one of the Angkor temples.  The center figure is larger and above the two other figures.  knees jutting out to the side.
    Apsara_dancer_KHM200602_286.jpg
  • Angkor Thom, Bayon temple approached from the west gate in morning sunshine.
    Angkor_Thom_Bayon_entrance_KHM200602...jpg
  • Angkor, Banteay Prei: facade with banyan tree growing out of it.  This temple served as an encampment for government soldiers fighting the Khmer Rouge.
    Angkor_temple_Banteay_Prei_KHM200602...jpg
  • Tonle Sap lake : a girl of about 10 years, wearing a red backpack, sits in the dugout prow, paddling three little boys who sit behind her.  They are all going to school.  The dugout was given to the school by the Grand Circle Foundation to help ensure that the kids have transportation to get to school.
    KHM200602-392.jpg
  • Tonle Sap lake : fish tank on a floating restaurant
    KHM200602-390.jpg
  • A young man who was briefly a child soldier and avoided starvation by eating locusts.  He demonstrates this to an unbelieving audience of people in his tour group, holding a lotus out toward the camera.
    Cambodian-survivor-eats-locust-KHM20...jpg
  • Siem Reap : Artisans d'Angkor. Girl student carefully copies a set scene to decorate a tray.
    Painting_on_silk_KHM200602-219.jpg
  • Detail of one facial portrait of a king; profiles of two others on either side. Festooned with leafy vines.  The sculpture sits on top of a gopura, or gate, to a temple precinct.  The figure faces in all four cardinal directionsin indicating protection all around.
    Angkor gopura head
  • Angkor Thom : Naga balustrade on the entrance causeway over the moat.  Detail of first figure holding the naga's head.  Hand and foot discernible in foreground, in front of ferocious looking face.
    Angkor_Thom_bridge-Ferocious king po..rait
  • Angkor, Ta Prohm temple building clasped in vast tangles of thitpok (Tetrameles nudiflora) tree roots. Some call this tree a strangler fig (ficus gibbosa), a different species.  Vertical orientation showing tree all the way to its top.
    Angkor_temple_Ta_Prohm_KHM200602-151.jpg
  • Angkor, Ta Prohm, perspective along an interior corridor toward a modern Buddhist shrine.
    Angkor_temple_Ta_Prohm_interior_KHM2...jpg
  • One tourist climbs and another descends the very steep stairway up to one of the towers on top of Angkor Wat.  A couple at the very top looks down.
    Angkor_Wat_interior_towers_KHM200602...jpg
  • Angkor Wat : corner corbelled cross vault, looking up, with the lines, textures, and colors of the masonry emphasized to create a symmetrical, central composition held together by the cross formation at the peak of the vault.
    Angkor_abstract_composition_KHM20060...jpg
  • Tonle Sap lake :police checkpoint near Chong Kneas includes a room where the policemen rest.  A motorcycle helmet hangs on the wal, together with clean shirts.
    KHM200602-385.jpg
  • Angkor, Prasat Kravan, 10th century. Interior of central tower, brick wall relief of Vishnu stepping across the universe.
    Angkor_temple_Prasat_Kravan_interior...jpg
  • Angkor Wat: view along a corridor  of one of its galleries.Parallel linear pattern of sunlight and shadow projected through balustraded window opening.  Successive doorways recede into the distance.
    Angkor_Wat_interior_KHM200602-071.jpg
  • In rural Cambodia, a teenaged girlusing a pedall-driven pump  irrigates a garden beyond from a huge vat of water.
    Cambodia_Tonle_Sap_KHM200602-215.jpg
  • in Rural Cambodia, a young girl irrigates a garden beyond from a huge vat of water.
    KHM200602-215.jpg
  • Front view of a small stilt house, showing access ladder and clusters of tools and equipment hanging in the shade underneath.  The woven straw matting wall of a larger house next door is shown.
    Cambodia_Tonle_Sap_KHM200602-206.jpg
  • Side view of a floating boat home on Tonle Sap, showing the front porch on the bow, with the silhouette of a figure lying in a hammock
    Cambodia_Tonle_Sap_KHM200602-179.jpg
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  • Elderly Cambodian man pauses by an outdoor water pump in the town of Siem Reap, smiling cheerfully.  He says that he stayed alive by hiding in villages where nobody knew him.
    KHM200602-310.jpg
  • Head and shoulders double portrait of a Cambodian brother and sister, both smiling.
    KHM200602-349.jpg
  • Angkor, Ta Som temple: detail of one Apsara dancer figure in a niche, surrounded by scrolled foliage ornament.  She is bare-breasted and wears an enigmatic smile as one arm is raised holding what looks like a club.
    Khmer Apsara KHM200602--253.jpg
  • Panel showing three Apsara dancers among flourishing plants in a wall in Angkor Thom.
    Khmer Apsara KHM200602--286 copy cop...jpg
  • Top of a gopura, or gate, to a temple precinct, with sculptured heads of the king or a god facing in each of the four cardinal directions as a symbol of protection for the people.
    Angkor head KHM200602--278.jpg
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