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the Lakeside guest house area is part of Phnom Penh , Boeung Kok 2 .
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Cambodia '08 - 005 - Phnom Penh lakeside
Made by mckaysavage
The prettiness of Boeng Kak Lake does not betray the seediness and overall run-down nature of the Lakeside area in Phnom Penh. A typical backpacker zone, but I felt it lacked the charm of other ones I've been to while retaining too much of the sktechy locals offering drugs, bad tour deals, mediocre food and anything else one might want. We were also very, and fairly concerned our hotel was going to collapse into the lake while we slept. Our 2nd story room came complete with weak plywood floorboards, holes open to the floor below and a balcony very certainly off limits to human weight. But it was pretty cheap and we lived to tell the tail.


Hide and seek
Made by hankfever
A cute little girl trying to play hide-and-seek with me. After the game, she tried to beg some money for living. You can see tons of kids like her wandering on the main street of the biggest city of Cambodia. I guess the first word they learned was one dollar, and the first thing they know how to do is put their hands facing up, begging for money. I feel frustrated that I can do so little for them. At the other hand, i feel so guilty for not giving them some money, cause i think it will appeal more and more kids to come... taken in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.


A ride on the lake
Made by aja
I already promised this boy to ride on his sampan on the sun set. He is very persistent to get me into his sampan ever since I sat on the deck at the guest house that I stayed. The picture is not sharp at all. The sampan was shaky and it was hard to take it without flash. Even more worst I sat at the second row and as friend of mine was sitting in front of me. Had to held the camera above my head. I wish that I have Nikon D80 with VR lens!! So me and a friend took a ride, paid him US$1.50 for the ride. It was worth it!


faces of the dead
Made by themexican
The Khmer Rouge were oddly meticulous about the people they executed. Tens of thousands were documented via a final snapshot which were then sorted by sex. A few years ago I bought a book of these images. While all are heartbreaking the two that are burned into my head are these: The image of a mother holding a tiny hand of a child who is off frame. The image of a child who, because he has no shirt, has his nametag pinned through his chest.



Made by Paul Carson / Embikei Images
These tyre repair setups are on many street corners. Generally consisting of a compressor, a tyre repair kit and a hammock for the repairer to lounge in until a customer comes along. Not just for motos or bicycles. I saw a Lexus SUV having a tyre repaired at one of these places.


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Made by Paul Carson / Embikei Images
One of Phnom Penh's backpacker districts, known as Lakeside. Situated next to Beoung Kak, which is being filled in by a Korean company to be used for development. Thousands of extremely poor families that lived nearby are now homeless, and the lake is practically gone.


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Made by Paul Carson / Embikei Images
Two guys brave the remaining waters of Beoung Kak to salvage bits of timber that used to support houses out over the lake. Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen's new office (on the left) and the Council Of Ministers buildings loom in the background.


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Made by Paul Carson / Embikei Images
Petrol prices in Phnom Penh are nearly the same as in Australia (this shot shows a litre of Super costing AU$1.12). Consider that many people here have to live on less than US$1 a day.



Made by Paul Carson / Embikei Images
I heard that this house, on the corner of Street 95 and Street 330, was where Kaing Guek Eav (aka Comrade Duch) lived during the time he headed the S-21 torture prison.



Made by Paul Carson / Embikei Images
Old-school and new-school. I also noticed that the vast majority of cyclo drivers are seriously old guys, and the moto/tuktuk guys are young 'uns.



Made by Paul Carson / Embikei Images
Yes, there are Hummers and Mercs in this poverty-stricken country. The nouveau riche Khmers do enjoy their conspicuous displays...



Made by Paul Carson / Embikei Images
A young Khmer Rouge member, photographed on 17/4/75, the day Pol Pot siezed power of the country and created Democratic Kampuchea



Made by Paul Carson / Embikei Images
Sculptor in Street 178. I assumed that most of the Buddha & apsara statues and so forth were just cast from concrete. Not so.


Cambodian graffiti
Made by Jonas Hansel
Graffiti on the wall of an uninhabited building in the Boeung Kak neighborhood, Phnom Penh's backpacker's area (Cambodia).



Made by Paul Carson / Embikei Images
A mobile phone SIM card seller. These tiny booths are as common in Cambodia as 7-Elevens are in Thailand.


Phnom Penh - Monks sitting on a bench
Made by Drriss
They just finished their meals they begged for along the street...a bowl of rice and some vegetables.



Made by Paul Carson / Embikei Images
Given the craziness of traffic in Phnom Penh, seeing this on the back of a van did give me a chuckle.


Fisherman near #9 Guest House
Made by Tom Cuthbert
A beautiful scene as the sun shone through the reeds at the edge of a fast-diminishing Boeng Kak.


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Made by Paul Carson / Embikei Images
More changes at Lakeside/Beoung Kak, Phnom Penh. The forner site on Number 9 Sister guesthouse.



Made by Paul Carson / Embikei Images
Progress? The soon to be new HQ for Canadia Bank, changing the skyline of Phnom Penh.