| July 9th, 2010 by Andrew Murray.
The water festival, (Bon Om Touk), is a highly regarded festival in Cambodia and marks an incredible phenomenon, the reversing of the flow of the Tonle Sap River. During the monsoon season, the water levels of the lower Mekong become so high that the water is forced to flow back up the river into Tonle [...] |
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The Water Festival, Cambodia
Bonn Pchum Ben Festival, Cambodia
| July 9th, 2010 by Andrew Murray.
Bonn Pchum Ben is a Cambodian religious festival blessing the souls of dead ancestors, relatives and friends. For 15 days people take turns, offering food to the monks of their local pagoda. Cambodians hope that each tribute will reach the souls of their dead ancestors through the religious sermons of the monks. On the final [...] |
Royal Ploughing Ceremony, Cambodia
| July 9th, 2010 by Andrew Murray.
The Royal Ploughing Ceremony has been an annual tradition for many centuries. The traditional ceremony is used to mark the onset of the rainy season, and dictates when the farmers must prepare their fields for the next crop of rice. This year the Ceremony, ‘Pithi Chrat Preah Neang Korl’, will be held at the Veal [...] |
Khmer New Year, Cambodia
| July 9th, 2010 by Andrew Murray.
Khmer New Year is the biggest traditional festival in the Cambodian calendar and is celebrated for three days following the end of the harvest. The celebrations mark the turning of the New Year according to the Buddhist lunar calendar. The first day of the New Year, ‘Moha Sangkran’, is when local Cambodians clean and decorate [...] |
Meak Bochea Festival, Cambodia
| July 9th, 2010 by Andrew Murray.
Meak Bochea Day is an important Buddhist celebration that marks a spontaneous gathering of 1,250 monks to listen to Buddha’s sermons. The gathering is attributed to four miracles occurring nine months after Buddha’s enlightenment, on the day of the full moon during the third lunar month. At this miraculous gathering Buddha preached a seminal sermon [...] |
Is travel in Thailand Safe Now? June 2010.
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June 22nd, 2010 by Andrew Murray.
In short, the current answer would appear to be yes, travel in Thailand is safe. Taking into account a few provisos, the political situation has calmed significantly since May. Bangkok and Chiang Mai could be considered the epicentres of May’s unrest and life in these two cities has returned to relative normalcy. Travellers to the [...] |
Fresh Clashes in the Thai and Cambodian Border Region.
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June 8th, 2010 by Andrew Murray.
Cambodian and Thai troops, patrolling the disputed border region, between the two countries, exchanged fire this morning in the latest of a series of violent clashes. A spokesman claimed that the incident was a misunderstanding arising from illegal logging activities that take place locally. The shootout is said to have lasted for several minutes although [...]  |
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