Battambang Local Customs

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Even though there are fuel stations around, you'll see a lot of shops selling fuel which seems to come in different colours - red, yellow and green and usually sold in old glass soft drink bottles but I also saw it sold from old Jack Daniels bottles! I presume the different colours help distinguish the different grades and I bought some from a similar vendor when I hired a bike in Sihanoukville.

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Battambang was the first town I visited during my time in Cambodia and I came here in a shared car from the Thai border at Poipet. I noticed these political signs for various communist parties along the roads and then more of them around Battambang itself. Politics most be a big thing, here, and is a bit in your face compared with things back home as we only display political signs for the various parties around election time.

If you just walk around you can see this tiny houses outside of the real houses, they call it Houses of Spirts , and are very important for Cambodian, they build it because in this way the Spirits of their ancestry have their own place to stay. They believe that if tha spirits haven't their own house they wander around looking for a place to stay and thay don't have peace untill they can stop. You can this little houses also in other South East Asia Countries like Thayland, Laos.

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Cuando empieza a bajar el nivel del agua los peces se concentran en ciertas areas a las que acude gran cantidad de pescadores a pescar con red

When the water level starts to go down the fishes are located on certain areas where a lot of fishemen go to fish with net

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En el pantano de Kamping Poy hay una zona dedicada al cultivo de los lotos que se utilizan como ofrendas para los budas y tambi?n tienen unas semillas que se comen .
Tambien se pueden utilizar como "sombreros "

In kamping poy Dam there is an area dedicated to farmlotus that are used to make offers to the Budhas and also they have some seeds that may be eaten
They may be also used as " hats "

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Los monjes siempre me llaman la atencion porque aparte de ser muy fotogenicos son de un trato muy agradable

The monks always pay may attention because besides of beeing very photogenic they have a very nice treat

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Pasamos por un pueblo en el que hacian en casi todas las casas papel de arroz para los rollos de primavera
Hacen el papel de arroz con forma redonda , en unas estufas y luego las ponen a secar al sol en el jardin

We went to a village where in most of the houses they did rice paper for the spring rolls
They make the rice paper with round shape , in a stove and latter on they put them to sun dry in the garden

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A primera hora de la manana ( las seis ) salen los monjes, descalzos , a recoger los alimentos que les dan y que sera su comida del dia.
A media manana vuelven al templo

Early in the morning ( Six ) the monks go out , with the bare foot , to receive the food presents that will be their day lunch
On mid day they return to the temple