THE ROYAL PARK IN FRONT OF THE PALACE

13th AUGUST 2019 ~ There was this park right outside the Royal Palace. I walked by this park every day during my stay in Phnom Penh and it seems it was one of the favourite spots among the locals to sit down on the grass and forget about all the stress at work or at home. Here, every day was a sunny summer day where people laze around with no cares in the world.

There were many pigeons at the park, hundreds of them. The reason they came in a big flock was because people were feeding them. This should be a favourite pastime among the Phnom Penh-ers. You could also buy the food for the birds from people selling it on the street.

Guess life was less complicated for people here.

At the same time, there were also street vendors selling all kinds of things which were mostly food and toys for children.

Not only the park was occupied in the afternoon, it still came alive at night, with people just sitting and enjoying their time there. There was at least for people to go and it was definitely free.

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THE ROYAL PALACE OF CAMBODIA - PART THREE

[CONTINUATION OF PART TWO]

13th AUGUST 2019 ~ The last section of the Cambodian Royal Palace was the ground which the Silver Pagoda was located (and I was already hot, tired and thirsty by this time). I could not remember the exact building where you could find the Silver Buddha and other items related to Buddhism. UNFORTUNATELY, again, visitors were not allowed to use their cameras here.

I think this should be the Silver Pagoda.

Stupa of King Norodon Suramarit

Stupa Kantha Bopha

inside thus shrub, there is a temple on a small hill

Statue of King Norodom

On the way out, there were other small buildings which were exhibition galleries. They even had traditional Cambodian houses with local women doing demonstration of silk-weaving.

I personally feel the galleries were too small and the exhibits too many. They could build another museum just to display all the items to the visitors.

a palace cat napping

I enjoyed myself very much to be here - to be able to at least see the lifestyle of the Cambodian royalty. When you possess a lot of money, you could always build huge and beautiful buildings.

There was a band playing live traditional Cambodian music which I managed to record and uploaded on my Youtube channel. Enjoy!

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THE ROYAL PALACE OF CAMBODIA - PART TWO

[CONTINUATION OF PART ONE]

13th AUGUST 2019 ~ As people were not allowed into the main hall of the palace, they just wandered around the area, admiring the beautiful architecture and striking as many poses as possible in front of the majestic, yellow buildings.

the throne hall - an image found on the internet

In one of the buildings. on the ground floor, there was this one small museum which exhibited some items which belong ed to the palace. The place was quite small actually so when people came in big number, it got really crowded.

One exhibit I remember was the seven ladies wearing seven different colourful attires. These were the servants of the palace and their attires were colour coded according to the seven days of the week.

Then it was time to move to the next section of the complex where the Silver Pagoda was located.

TO BE CONTINUED IN PART 3

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