March 20th, 2009

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Cambodia – Lunch on the Mekong river

Friday, March 20th, 2009

This series was shot on a rare sunny day during monsoon season in Phnom Penh. We rode mopeds to a restaurant on the outskirts of the city that was propped up by 2x4s so that it was overlooking the Mekong river. We laid in hammocks and enjoyed the gentle breeze coming off the river as we made conversation. The food finally arrived and my Cambodian friends tricked me into eating ant larvae, which actually tasted like Tom Yam soup. After eating we sat and watched as a family pulled up to the river bank in a boat and picked fruit from the surrounding area to sell at the market. Even as I was laying in a hammock the entire experience felt surreal, so the pictures probably tell a better story than I do.