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Cambodia - Angkor temples

These are some photos of the Angkor temples, one of the Unesco World Heritage sites, from our family vacation trip. These are the best I could get from a tour guided trip with many todlers and elders :-). All are taken at same usual spots that millions of visitors have stood and clicked

the Angkor Wat and Angkor Thom

Below is the Bayon temple which is recently made well-known to the world probably because of the movie Lare Croft: The Tomb Raider. The temple itself is almost ruined but the way the trees embrace the structures is incredible ...

with the Secret Smiles

I did still not forgetting to get some "model" shots when there are chances :-)

We ended up the day on the top of the Bakheng temple whose stairs are really steep to climb but we did enjoy the sunset from the view. We got there when the sun almost set indeed

What a wonderful wonder! You must be there to appreciate it.

Cambodian wedding couple

I had some photographs of a Cambodian couple when visiting the Angkor temples with my family during Christmas time. Their colorful customs caught my eyes so much that I could not resist to lift my camera, sneaked through their camera man's shoulder and took some shots for myself. Later I've read more about their wedding tradition and learned that this custom is just one of three or four different traditional ones that a couple would use during their wedding which would last at least three to seven days. Would love to share these photos here.

Here is the scene with their camera man and the Angkor Wat in the background

Cambodia - Life on surface of Bien Ho Tonle Sap

Not included in the tour program but it seems so interesting so we managed to sneak a bit of time to make a visit a small part of the big Tonle Sap Lake where a small Vietnamese community resides there. The lake is indeed so big that we could not see the other side of it. In Vietnam we call it "ocean lake" or "biển hồ" in Vietnamese. According to the tour guide, people who live there don't belong to any country, Cambodia nor Vietnam, since they're floating here and there all the time and no government cares about.

Well, not too much of words, some of the photos would show how tough lives there.

Tuan-Tien family pictures

Tuan is one of my best old school friends way back in Vietnam. I had a chance to photograph his family including his lovely wife and the two prospective model daughters. The setting is actually right at my inlaw house in Thu Duc, a Saigon suburban town. Not much special in the photos but just a bit of fun shooting in VN :-)

Thanks Tuan and his family for spending the morning with us for the shoot. What a lovely family!