Bus to Battambang
May 17th, 2008 by Jinja
Visitors from the USA (Idea Czar and Multivore) arrived earlier this week, timing it just right for a slew of holidays. (3-day King’s Birthday celebration, Buddha’s birthday.)
After the hustle and bustle of India they found Cambodia to be a welcome change. We bused on out of a quiet Phnom Penh and herewith, a few pictures from Cambodia’s second largest city. (I’m wondering if we should label Battambang ‘Cambodia’s Chicago’. Any takers?)
Cassette culture ain’t dead! Above is an old-skool painted sign, the second is a more modern computer-designed version for the same store.
A small indication of change and modernization. Like many foreigners, I’m a fan of handmade art, and you can see many more at ‘Hand Painted Signs of Cambodia‘.
Below: high schools got some issues to work out. Full translation to follow.
(I will be doing some cropping and tweaking of photos back in Penhville. When in doubt, post it out!)
While in Battambang, you can avail yourself of a Khmer cooking class, which sees a meal through from buying the ingredients to serving it up! Tasty and fun to watch. Check your guidebook for ‘The Melting Pot’. Oh, and speaking of guidebooks, I managed to pick up Ray Zepp’s “Battambang and Around”, cheers to Andy Brouwer for sharing the info on this and many other travelers’ tips.
Tags: cambodia,food,battambang,sign
Thanks for adding these to the Flickr sign pool – I never got around to capturing the signs of Battambang – but a few that I remember seeing in the outlying towns looked much more psychedelic than anywhere else in Cambodia: rainbow gradients, stencilled in stars.