Battambang City, Cambodia: Photographs

Our hotel. At least it's not Easter already.

$8 a night. $6 a night places don't have the art.

This could be Seattle, though we are in Battambang Cambodia. So pleasing to be in this space, especially when contrasted with the Pile Place where we lunched once. Went to the bathroom in the back there to find 50-some dirty dishes, a smashed fish on the floor, and a mountain of plastic bottles. THIS cafe, however, had hand towels, cool colored lighting, AND chocolate cakes.

Halloween costume (toaster?) or medical practice? Photograph of sign outside a clinic.

Regarding Khmer food, the first part is arguable, but the second is for sure and certain no understatement.

In the mornings this country always smells like burning garbage.

The esoteric and enchanting flowers of the Cannonball tree. It's seeds are literally cannonballs which drop from the tree and roll to a reasonable distance for sprouting.

School bus parking lot, as it were, Cambodia style.

Breakfast: delicious egg-in-a-baguette with topping of Friendly Cat.

Bike ride for fun: truckless paved roads led me to views like this.

Aloe vera in a frenzy.

Reading in a hammock, with latte, is the antithesis of bicycling on honking dusty heated roads. Both activities necessary to my well-being.