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| During breakfast a group of people wearing dragon costumes and beating drums came through the hotel lobby and through the hotel garden. | This is Chinese New Year! | Drums and drummers on the left side following the dragons. After wandering our hotel they went back out and down the stret. Fun! | Huge hotel pool. It's a windy day, pool has ripples. | Hotel garden area trees have red Chinese New Year decorations. Behind the tree is a temporary wall to cut the wind and hide some construction. | ||
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| Over the wall you can see the river. This is the joining of the Mekong and Tonle Sap rivers from the left side joining into one. | Construction over the wall - building a wide river walk area. | The wall has the river and boats painted on it! | Kids play area. | Gardeners corner. | ||
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| From the sign "Kanika Boat" on top of the boat you can see how much lower the river is than the walk. | Lobby has a pretty Koi pool. | Koi in the pool. | Lobby is nicely decorated for CNY. | Typical lunch for Bob and Sue - veggies and rice. | ||
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| Tuk-tuk's in Phnom Penh have covers that extend forward to cover the driver! Siem Reap ones didn't have that. Notice the white tank on the left side of the cycle with a drip line going down to the engine - manual way to water-cool the engine in summer heat! | Most restaurants have a very wide variety of food! | Traffic along the riverfront is crazy and gets gridlocked. | Most Tuk-tuks have netting or tarps around the rear seats, for sun protection or to prevent cycle "snatch-and-grab" pick-pockets. | Shrines everywhere. | ||
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| Cycle with balloons but those tanks look like propane tanks. Balloon pilot DanG says propane is heavier than air so maybe they're methane tanks? Helium is expensive...??? | Bicycle rickshaw. | Rickshaw parking. | Three-wheeled car! | Sue was thirsty looking for a can of juice. Thanks to Raj we know we like SourSop juice! 50 cents, not bad for tourist prices. | ||
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| All sorts of foods available. | Meal worms too, lots of varieties of protein. | Various boats on the river. | This was the only bad polluter, puffing smoke. | |||
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| Sunset behind the Grand Palace. | ||||||
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| Sparrows for sale. Don't eat them, release them to bring you good luck for Chinese New Year. | Can you say traffic? | These two guys were kicking something like a shuttlecock back and forth. Moving too quickly to get a good photo. | These guys were good! | The white streak is the shuttlecock flying by. | ||
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| On the way back to the hotel after lunch, we'd wandered enough that Sue had the munchies so we bought some lotus flowers to munch the seeds. | Dinner menu - Chilly [sic] Garlic Bread. Perfectly understandable :-) | Nice dinner menu. Here in Cambodia tourist restaurants, prices are in US$ which are accepted everywhere. | Veggies with Tofu for Sue | |||
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| Veggies with Cashew for Bob | Our bill - US $8.50 including drinks. | Coffin Shop. Guess somebody has to do it. | As darkness fell, the Tuk-tuk drivers wrapped up in their sedans, with tarps and mosquito nets. Just like in Siem Reap, an amazing number of people sleep on the streets :-( | ||