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Thought I'd jump on the pic posting bandwagon and share with you some of the photos from my trip to Thailand and Cambodia earlier this year.


View from my bungalow, Koh Tao




View from our tent, Mai Ngam beach, Koh Surin




Some bungalows we passed when on a boat in Koh Tao




Some Thai women shelling prawns next to a school of fish




Funny advertising




Attempted arty shot on a tree




Angkor Wat, Cambodia










Some Cambodian children playing music




Some of the temples were built upon hills which you could climb by elephant




Hope you enjoy.

Those are cool as hell

some neat looking stuff there

i agree, those are very cool. how did you like cambodia? it looks nice from these shots but i've heard weird things about the place. isnt cambodia a sexual predator's paradise?

Any more pictures of Angkor Wat? It's a fucking shame the Khmer Rouge had most of the old temples destroyed.

Did you see any hints of an Ong Bak 2?

nice pics

Those are awesome post more

Law wrote:

[Shang Tsung]Prepare for... Mortal Kombat[/Shang Tsung]

Chupacabra wrote:i agree, those are very cool. how did you like cambodia? it looks nice from these shots but i've heard weird things about the place. isnt cambodia a sexual predator's paradise?

I only spent 3 days in Cambodia, we were only there to see Angkor. In all honesty I didn't really get a good impression of the place. We staid in a town called Siem Reap which is built specifically for the tourists to go see Angkor. This was a touristy town yet still the poverty was incredible. We hired a taxi driver for the 3 days we were there who spoke quite good English, was a post-grad student but was forced to drive a taxi because his father was dead, mother was in hospital and his brothers and sisters would starve without his support.

The more we drove around Siem Reap the more you could just see how little the government gives a shit about it's people. The only places making any money, for instance massive 5 star hotels in the middle of a street of slums, were owned by foreigners so none of the money goes into Cambodia. Apparently this is common place throughout the entire country. There are also amputess everywhere.

At Angkor itself you get swarmed by hordes of women and children literally screaming at you to buy things, and they are incredibly relentless, it happens the entire time you are there. One time when I was having something to eat I gave a group of about 8 children $5 AUD just to leave me alone.

As for the pedophilia I have no doubt it goes on there, as there are a lot of signs telling you sex with a child is a crime etc, but I didn't see any evidence of it in Siem Reap.

I enjoyed Angkor but I won't be rushing back to Cambodia in a hurry.

finally, some real pics

feedback wrote:Any more pictures of Angkor Wat? It's a fucking shame the Khmer Rouge had most of the old temples destroyed.

My girlfriend took about five thousand pics of Angkor but none of them are on digital. Yeah so many of the temples are in ruins, it definately is a shame. Next to every Buddha has had it's head removed to be sold.

andyman wrote:Did you see any hints of an Ong Bak 2?

nice pics

Do you mean hints of one being made? Tom Yum Goong has been out for quite a while.

Nice pics. That ruin with the faces etched in it is cool.

Speaking of Cambodian photo gallaries, I found this set on dpreview and thought it quite good:

http://www.julian.li/cambodia/

mjrpes wrote:Nice pics. That ruin with the faces etched in it is cool.

Speaking of Cambodian photo gallaries, I found this set on dpreview and thought it quite good:

http://www.julian.li/cambodia/

beautiful pictures--both fascinating and sad

mjrpes wrote:Nice pics. That ruin with the faces etched in it is cool.

Speaking of Cambodian photo gallaries, I found this set on dpreview and thought it quite good:

http://www.julian.li/cambodia/

mjrpes wrote:Nice pics. That ruin with the faces etched in it is cool.

Speaking of Cambodian photo gallaries, I found this set on dpreview and thought it quite good:

http://www.julian.li/cambodia/

Wow,,,

Chupacabra wrote:

mjrpes wrote:Nice pics. That ruin with the faces etched in it is cool.

Speaking of Cambodian photo gallaries, I found this set on dpreview and thought it quite good:

http://www.julian.li/cambodia/

beautiful pictures--both fascinating and sad

Some of those pictures broke my heart thanks for sharing those and the link to the orphanage

nice places to bomb...

awesome pics, shit like this exists through out the world, cant feel sorry for everyone. ;(

Freakaloin wrote:nice places to bomb...

you couldnt even point to cambodia on an atlas, let alone fucking bomb it. :icon10:

Law wrote:

andyman wrote:Did you see any hints of an Ong Bak 2?

nice pics

Do you mean hints of one being made? Tom Yum Goong has been out for quite a while.

Tom Yum Goong isn't Ong Bak 2, It's Tom Yum Goong mate

Yeah I know... you know what I mean though.

ek wrote:awesome pics, shit like this exists through out the world, cant feel sorry for everyone. ;(

Freakaloin wrote:nice places to bomb...

you couldnt even point to cambodia on an atlas, let alone fucking bomb it. :icon10:

i majored in geography jackass...

ok moran, go USA!

Freakaloin wrote:

ek wrote:awesome pics, shit like this exists through out the world, cant feel sorry for everyone. ;(

Freakaloin wrote:nice places to bomb...

you couldnt even point to cambodia on an atlas, let alone fucking bomb it. :icon10:

i majored in geography jackass...

Is geography jackass anything like geography?

i fucked a guy like u in my 'geography of china' class...