Slideshow for Kingdom of Cambodia Pictures

Tropical sunset in a mystic world of beauty Sunset outside the temples of Angkor show the soft sweetness of our climate in Cambodia Date/Time: Mon 12 Jan 2009 05:36:34 PM PHT Sunset outside the temples of Angkor show the soft sweetness of our climate in Cambodia. Tropical warm, sunny and gentle is the nature all around the kingdom. Hence it is called the kingdom of wonders - thanks to so many wonders inside and outside this beautiful exotic country.

Kingdom of lotus flowers and lotus ponds Lotus flowers and lotus ponds all over the beautiful Cambodia - Widescreen wallpaper Date/Time: Mon 12 Jan 2009 11:21:59 AM PHT Lotus flowers and lotus ponds all over the beautiful Cambodia.
Like no other country I have seen in this world, Cambodia has exotic and most beautiful blossoming lotus flowers all over. Lotus ponds where ever you look, walk or drive.
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The Kingdom of Lotus has so many most beautiful Lotus flowers that I have dedicated an entire album just to Cambodia Lotus. Enjoy the high resolution Lotus photo collection.

Kingdom of wonders Kingdom of wonders, exotic leftovers of the kingdom's ancient history. Angkor temples testify of a colorful past of the Kingdom of Cambodia Date/Time: Mon 12 Jan 2009 04:19:02 PM PHT Kingdom of wonders, exotic leftovers of the kingdom's ancient history. Angkor temples testify of a colorful past of the Kingdom of Cambodia.

Some 30 years of war in the kingdom have left deep wounds inside the culture and humans as well. Just like these temples suffered from eruption over time.

Jungle pond in Siem Reap - Angkor Cambodia is rich in high old jungle and plentiful of water Date/Time: Mon 12 Jan 2009 07:49:42 AM PHT Cambodia is rich in high old jungle and plentiful of water.

The Temples of Angkor are surrounded by high and very dense jungle and many beautiful waters, ponds, small creeks or rivers.

Siem Reap by night - Wallpaper tropical nightlife Nightlife widescreen wallpaper Siem Reap Date/Time: Sun 11 Jan 2009 07:29:24 PM PHT Nightlife widescreen wallpaper Siem Reap.

Cambodian nights are tropical but cool. Beautiful small lights of Siem Reap reflect in the river crossing the City.

Tropical nature scenery of Kampuchea Blossoming tropical flower scenery Date/Time: Mon 12 Jan 2009 08:54:58 AM PHT Blossoming tropical flower scenery and high palm trees amidst lush vegetation of Kampuchea.

Tropical scenery of Cambodia Cambodia pictures with flowers, tropical lush vegetation and high palm trees Date/Time: Mon 12 Jan 2009 08:55:58 AM PHT Flowers, tropical lush vegetation and high palm trees.
Beautiful nature scenery in the kingdom of wonders. Cambodia is a true nature lover paradise.

Cambodian rice field Lush beautiful green rice field with palm trees - a typical Cambodian scenery picture Date/Time: Thu 15 Jan 2009 09:48:56 AM PHT Lush beautiful green rice field with palm trees - a typical Cambodian scenery.
Cambodia of course is a rice producing and rice eating country. Rice fields are abundant in all areas of the Kingdom.
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Lotus flower Millions of most beautiful lotus flowers and water lilies decorate all Kingdom Date/Time: Fri 23 Jan 2009 09:10:58 AM PHT Millions of most beautiful lotus flowers and water lilies decorate all Kingdom. Country side most houses have at least one lotus pond nearby. Millions of lotus and water lilies mostly in pink, white, purple, blue color. See the photo album of lotus flowers with free lotus eCards or enjoy the collection of beautiful lotus wallpapers and beautiful widescreen lotus wallpaper.

Jungle wallpaper Beautiful Cambodia jungle picture invites for a visit Date/Time: Wed 21 Jan 2009 11:05:06 AM PHT Beautiful Cambodia jungle invites for a visit. Are you adventurous and nature lover? Then Cambodia's jungle nature may be just for you. Exciting and most beautiful jungle, dense and high, filled with tropical jungle life. Have a look at my jungle wallpaper or widescreen jungle wallpaper.

White flower Cambodia is a paradise of tropical flowers Date/Time: Sat 31 Jan 2009 12:39:54 PM PHT Cambodia is a paradise of tropical flowers. Knowing some of the tropical flowers of the Philippine islands after 8 years of enjoying the islands - I see that Cambodia has very much exactly the same tropical flowers and orchids. The climate and seasons as well are the same. Hot, tropical and exotic.

War damage in Cambodia Cambodian picture of war damage and abandoned houses across the Kingdom of Cambodia Date/Time: Sun 01 Feb 2009 02:03:51 PM PHT War damage and abandoned houses across the Kingdom of Cambodia. Many houses got damaged or destroyed during the war, even more hoses got destroyed in the post war years. Since the nation lost some 3 Millions of its pre-war population during and after war - there are hundred thousands of abandoned properties not yet repossessed by the new government. Only the most valuable properties have been monetized soon after end of all war and post war troubles.
Some regions are economically "less profitable" and thus neglect. In such "less profitable" regions abandoned houses or damaged houses are quiet frequent to see. In some streets a third or nearly half of all houses still show severe war damage.
If I look back into my earliest childhood - I remember that around 1955 Germany also had still substantial war damage ten years after WW2. Hence it may take another ten or more year for nature to cover up the damage of past decades.
At the same time such memories of war may serve as a reminder of today's population and government how fragile peace can be with a wrong government creating again social tension between normal population and the richest ones.

Beautiful scenery Beautiful nature scenery near Tonle Sap - Siem Reap Date/Time: Fri 23 Jan 2009 08:39:40 AM PHT Beautiful nature scenery near Tonle Sap - Siem Reap. An essential treasure of Cambodia is the water. Water in abundance, even in dry season water is an essential source for food.

Scenery Cambodia Water scenery - huge fields, flooded and green, abundant with all kinds of life and food. Date/Time: Fri 23 Jan 2009 08:40:38 AM PHT Water scenery - huge fields, flooded and green, abundant with all kinds of life and food. The boats show, food is everywhere, even in flooded fields. Hence fishing or catching all kinds of edible food from those beautiful flooded pond like areas is found all across the Kingdom of Cambodia.

Fishing traps in rice field Typical fishing traps used in Cambodian ricefields Date/Time: Sun 25 Jan 2009 09:07:33 AM PHT Typical fishing traps used in Cambodian ricefields. Every country has its own innovation and techniques to catch fish and edible aquatic life.
On the photo you see common typical fishing traps used between rice fields and in rice fields to catch fish and other edible aquatic food. Specially during rainy season Cambodia's rice fields are an abundant resource of small edible fish.

Fishing children Children having fun while doing something useful and learning valuable lessons for life Date/Time: Sun 25 Jan 2009 09:06:15 AM PHT Children having fun while doing something useful and learning valuable lessons for life.

While City children only learn to play with plastic toys and useless but expensive computer games - children here learn to provide food while having fun. Learning to catch fish and other edible seafood with bell-shaped special traps. lower side open. Looking for movements in the water, then pushing the bell-shaped basket down to encircle the catch - then see next foto.

Girl fishing Girls too have fun catching fish - here the girl checks for possible catch Date/Time: Sun 25 Jan 2009 09:05:23 AM PHT Girls too have fun catching fish - here the girl checks for possible catch. If bell-shaped basket has been pushed down into mud - now it's time to see or better feel inside the traps if the catch is successful. Entering the trap by the small opening on top, then searching the small area underwater for anything alive and moving.

This method is quiet common, easy to practice and requires nothing technical. All traps are home made of natural material and thus free of charge.

Butterfly Cambodia - Wallpaper A beautiful butterfly in the jungle of Cambodia Date/Time: Sun 18 Jan 2009 01:16:04 PM PHT A beautiful butterfly in the jungle of Cambodia. The jungle of Cambodia is a true paradise and treasure chest for butterfly lovers and butterfly photographers. How much of a butterfly paradise you'll see in my next photo.
See also my large collection of Philippine butterfly wallpaper with more
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Butterflies Cambodia Butterflies drinking water in wet sand Date/Time: Sun 18 Jan 2009 01:11:25 PM PHT Butterflies drinking water in wet sand next to a small jungle river. My lucky day - but I had more than one such encounter! During dry season the jungle leaves have little or no water to drink. Hence butterflies do what humans do when thirsty, they go - or fly - to the next "butterfly pub". Way up in the mountains - amidst jungle - was a small crystal clear jungle river. This place with wet sand about 1 meter away from the water. A few dozen butterflies always flying around this small spot and about a dozen at a time sitting down for a short while to take a few zips of water out of the wet sand.
During rainy season it may be far more difficult to find such crowds of butterflies on a single spot. During rainy season raindrops can easily be found all across the jungle vegetation.
See my earlier photos if you love to learn a little about butterfly life cycle or see some butterfly wallpaper from tropical islands or enjoy my Butterfly eCard collection.

Tropical flower Beautiful tropical flowers decorating the streets and villages of Cambodia Date/Time: Sat 31 Jan 2009 12:40:15 PM PHT Beautiful tropical flowers decorating the streets and villages of Cambodia. During earlier decades - war and prewar - there were many more flowers and blossoming bushes. During my last visit to Cambodia in 1995 there were almost no flowers left from the destructive post war era of Cambodia.
Now slowly the people of Cambodia is recovering from war / post war damage and reviving the old Khmer tradition of having abundant flowers all around houses, villages and along streets.

Poor home - a life of struggle Poverty made by rich ones and politicians Date/Time: Wed 21 Jan 2009 11:51:36 AM PHT Poverty made by rich ones and politicians. This situation existed before / during war and was an essential cause for the post war atrocities. Some of the poorest got no land and no decent place to start real farming or real work. The rich ones simply never honor the work of workers and thus a life of struggle continues on and on.

This small home shows some of the poorest ones having found a place in or near jungle, far outside of villages where no one else wants to be or wants to own land. Revenue comes from simple work or products found in nature.

However - this family still is far richer than millions of American families - because this poor family OWNS the house. Paid in full - self made. No credit, No mortgage! Are you living in a house fully paid by you ? Or does your bank own you, your house and your entire future ?
Khmer people are hard working people since long. But no matter how hard you work, you still need a chance given - the ONE chance God gave all of us to have our own God created piece of property for life and happiness with a family and friends.

When mankind, rich ones and politics stop interfering with God's plan of love, then all people may return into a happy life amidst loved ones.

Simple farmer home Simple farm house but all needed for happy life Date/Time: Wed 21 Jan 2009 11:49:35 AM PHT Simple farm house but all needed for happy life. See yourself in the next picture that happy life is possible in such a simple farmers home.

Self made job - making roofing materila A self made job provides for the little money needed beyond food. Date/Time: Wed 21 Jan 2009 11:48:37 AM PHT A farmer produces the most valuable = food. A self made job provides for the little money needed beyond food. The products really needed in life are food and housing. This is a traditional roofing grass lasting a few years. The type of high strong grass is found in abundance. All you need is time to make the roofing. Since richer ones have no more time - the poor ones have time in abundance and produce what is needed to earn a little money to provide for expenses beyond food.
If you have your own house, zero mortgage, zero electricity or energy bills, no debts of any kind and all food in your own garden, in forest or jungle, then there is little else needed and self created jobs, services or products are sufficient for a simple but happy life. Happy life means smiling faces - see next photo!

A beautiful smile - a happy woman A beautiful happy woman - happiness has a price beyond money Date/Time: Wed 21 Jan 2009 11:46:59 AM PHT A beautiful happy woman - happiness has a price beyond money. This is the woman living in the small farm shown in previous photos and producing the roofing material. The small boy is playing nearby and the husband most likely in the fields behind the house.
This woman most likely is much richer than you - she has her own home free of debts or mortgages, her own self created job, can never be fired and above all she has a pure divine heart able to be truly happy even in a simple life.
True wealth is beyond money. Look at the faces of all those having to fear foreclosure. Unwilling to live simple, unable to create / build own house, unwilling to start slowly and prosper in a natural way. Unwilling to spend as much or less than earnings are ....

Learn from this woman on the photo - learn that true happiness comes from true flowing love and that latter is a question of inner attitude and maturity and never a matter of money!

The truly rich ones often are those having no money or little money but a home made within God's creation rather than in cities or industrialized zones.

Banana plantation This is the small banana plantation of the previous photo farm house Date/Time: Wed 21 Jan 2009 11:49:18 AM PHT This is the small banana plantation of the previous photo farm house. Some of the bananas are for sale or trade in against material needed. Other parts of the banana production is food for own children and family.
Every small farm needs a number of different products - for own family as well as in exchange for products needed from outside. Food always is the single most valuable product to have in exchange. All world needs food more than anything else in life to survive.
People can be homeless - but people still need daily food, else people die. Hence farmers producing food, create the single most valuable product you ever need. The most valuable also should have a honest price - may be the most expensive of all. Yet, useless high tech gadgets, computer games plastic toys, cellphones, etc are far more expensive than organic natural food.
That means there is something VERY wrong in the values of life of mankind an din the attitude, heart and mind of mankind. Something so wrong that mankind fell away from God into the self created hell on earth we have this past thousands of years.
To return home to God we all may have to change up to 100% of our attitude and heart, including our lifestyle and work.

Beautiful nature in the neighborhood Beautiful wild nature replaces your medical bills Date/Time: Wed 21 Jan 2009 11:45:49 AM PHT Beautiful wild nature replaces your medical bills. True nature, better a piece of real jungle within walking distance will provide you with all the healing energy and healing resources needed to stay healthy or get healthy.
God made nature is a treasure of herbal medicine. To live amidst God made nature, free from herbicide, free from pesticide, free from fertilizer gives you all you need to stay healthy without food or vitamin supplements, without doctors and pharmacies. A life free of medical bills.
All you need is the inherited knowledge about nature. A knowledge forwarded from generation to generation - free of charge.
A piece of wild nature also replaces the need for all toys for happy children. Nature is full of surprises, adventures and exiting life to explore. Much more exiting than all the plastic toys city kids have.
The reason why no one wants you to have such God made toys for your own children is simple: There is NO profit to be made from nature as a toy or medical resource. Profit however is all that occupies the mind, heart and soul of mankind. That's why mankind suffers from cancer, from drug and alcohol addiction - God and true love are missing in the life of mankind on earth!

Sunset Cambodia Beautiful sunset sceneries are common in Cambodia Date/Time: Fri 06 Feb 2009 05:36:34 PM PHT Beautiful sunset sceneries are common in Cambodia. During dry season almost daily colorful sunsets are normal. This and next photo ar from sunset boat trip upriver in Kampot - southern Cambodia with beautiful river vegetation, tropical vegetation and scenic views.

Sunset Kampot River sunset scenery Kampot Date/Time: Fri 06 Feb 2009 05:34:49 PM PHT River sunset scenery Kampot - beautiful nature and almost daily colorful sunsets invite for a boat trip into scenic nature of Kampot's river up or down-river. Have a look if you love Sunset photos - from tropical sunset sceneries.

Beach Cambodia Beach photos along the coast of Cambodia Date/Time: Thu 29 Jan 2009 02:03:54 PM PHT The following wallpapers are some beach photos made along the coast of Cambodia. Widescreen beach wallpaper 1920x1200px.
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Beach children in Cambodia Children play and have fun on the beach and in jungle Date/Time: Thu 29 Jan 2009 02:12:29 PM PHT Children play and have fun on the beach and in jungle of Ream National Park. If properly and early educated in nature - children in Cambodia play safely in ocean or jungle just as the
happy children in the Philippines do.

Beach Ream National Park Beach Ream National Park - east of Sihanoukville Date/Time: Thu 29 Jan 2009 02:23:07 PM PHT Beach Ream National Park - east of Sihanoukville. A large park on mainland and also including an island. Park tours are available with guides and boats if you love an extended trekking tour into nature of the National park.

Beach Nature Ream National Park Beautiful lush nature just behind the beach Date/Time: Thu 29 Jan 2009 02:02:57 PM PHT Beautiful lush nature with tropical vegetation starts just behind the beach of Ream National park.
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Cambodia beaches Remote beach in Ream National Park Date/Time: Thu 29 Jan 2009 02:08:34 PM PHT Remote beach in Ream National Park - Cambodia near Sihanoukville. Beautiful beaches are rare. Keep in mind that Cambodia has a small coast line only and mainly is a country with a huge agriculture potential and jungle / rice field vegetation.
Most beaches are near Sihanoukville.
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Cambodia beaches Ream National Park Ream National Park - small hidden beach Date/Time: Thu 29 Jan 2009 02:06:58 PM PHT Ream National Park - small hidden beach. Lush green vegetation and a piece of wild jungle just behind the beach is normal for Cambodian beaches between Sihanoukville and Kep. As a result some of the small existing and still intact beaches are difficult to access and well hidden from mass tourism.

Beach nature Beach nature Rem National Park - Sihanoukville Date/Time: Thu 29 Jan 2009 02:06:56 PM PHT Beach nature Rem National Park - Sihanoukville. Beautiful large variety of jungle vegetation growing down to the very beach. Many small beaches are accessible thru a small jungle path only or while walking along the ocean-beach front or by boat.
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Beach vegetation Beach vegetation with beautiful green plants Date/Time: Thu 29 Jan 2009 02:07:25 PM PHT Beach vegetation with beautiful green plants. Dense beautiful tropical vegetation along this beach in Ream National Park. Most secluded beaches are well hidden amidst jungle vegetation.
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Kompong Som - Otres Beach - Sihanoukville Kompong Som - Otres Beach - Some 9 km east of Kompong Som Date/Time: Fri 30 Jan 2009 05:00:24 PM PHT Kompong Som - Otres Beach - some 9 km east of town is the last beach of the approximately 9+ km long stretch of beach. Once a beach I considered the worlds most beautiful beach.
When I first experienced this very beach in 1973/74 there was a real high jungle growing down to the very beach. Huge trees. Evening around sunset hours, i.e. 6 PM, a loud concert of Millions of wildlife, birds, etc started. The sand was much more white at that time and the beach some 30+ meters wide. Now after all the monetization of tropical wood / logging the jungle is gone, the beach is gone, nature is gone, all beauty is gone. A beautiful beach God created during thousands of years has been destroyed by mankind in a matter of a few years greedy sellout of nature for profit, to finance government, to finance military, to finance greedy businessmen and politicians.

Kompong Som Beach Otres Beach - Sihanoukville / Kompong Som Date/Time: Fri 30 Jan 2009 04:58:18 PM PHT Otres Beach - Sihanoukville / Kompong Som. Imagine how this beach once looked some 30+ years ago before being destroyed by mankind. Beautiful God made jungle as high as real rain forest jungle down to the very beach line.
When I first swam in this beach waters in the 70ies, I saw one hunge beachextending down to Sihanoukville with no other person around - except one woman a few hundred meters from me. No pollution at all and as wide as I could see only jungle up to the very beach front. A crystal clear water all year warm like a bath, inviting day and night for a swim.
One night around midnight - about fullmoon - the ocean was so flat, even no ripples of a single centimeter. Just plain flat like a mirror. The only waves in the wide ocean were the ripples I made when swimming into the wide ocean. A God made paradise on a most beautiful beach. A beauty gone, destroyed by humans, never to come back even in a thousand years from now. There is God made beauty and beautiful islands, nature scenery and oceans that took thousands and millions of years to slowly form. Once destroyed - all beauty is gone for ever - for all eternity unless God depletes all planet from all humans for millions of years to reconstruct all beauty again.
The problem with that is that mankind would again manage to re-destroy all God made nature again in a matter of years.
See more photos and wallpapers from Cambodia's Beaches or view the Travel Guide to the Kingdom of Kampuchea.

Sihanoukville Beach A beach far out of town and thus few people only on the beach Date/Time: Thu 29 Jan 2009 01:41:10 PM PHT A beach far out of town and thus few people only on the beach enjoying nature and warm ocean.If you want to enjoy this beach or similar beaches of Sihanoukville / Kompong Som, the best is to walk east all along the 9+ kms long beach until you find your place.
There are a few small resorts or guest houses and hotels along the beach. You also find simple huts or places with rental tents to camp directly along the beach of Kompong Som toward Otres Beach.
Forget the city beaches in Sihanoukville - all crowded and polluted. The closer you get to Sihanoukville, the worst the situation. Sihanoukville is a pure harbor city and in no way capable to absorb the huge environment stress created by international tourism.
Once a long time ago before war, this beach was for Khmer people only. Local population was small and caring. The few beaches on the coast from Thailand toward Vietnam is small and barely enough for local population during weekend recreation family trips.

Kep Beach The only beach in Kep Date/Time: Sun 01 Feb 2009 02:06:26 PM PHT The only beach in Kep is this brown sandy beach of approximately 500 meters long in the middle of Kep. Brown sandy beach results in brownish waters as well.
The only reason why Kep was popular in Cambodia is the reason that it is the nearest beach from Phnom Penh coming. Hence Kep was a typical weekend beach vacation destination and many - including my own family - had a weekend house in Kep for our own joy or for our friends and family members to spend a few days or weeks on the beach.
now much of the town still shows signs of war destruction with countless abandoned houses = owners killed in post war era of Pol Pot. Damaged houses still waiting for repair. Lack of money after decades of war and post war disaster.

Ream National Park mountains Jungle covered mountains Date/Time: Thu 29 Jan 2009 12:46:27 PM PHT Jungle covered mountains in Ream National Park, east of Sihanoukville. Most national parks in Cambodia are but leftovers they forgot to kill during the years of jungle-monetization in the postwar era of previous and current government. Hence expect nothing spectacular, just normal jungle as far as surviving all attacks by humans to cut all huge jungle trees to finance government and military or for profit. Hence all the current national parks are but small remainders of the once huge Cambodian jungle nature that existed until mid seventies in the Kingdom.

Ream National Park nature Left overs of a once beautiful jungle Date/Time: Thu 29 Jan 2009 12:46:46 PM PHT Left overs of a once beautiful jungle. Look at the 2 higher trees on the right size. The you see how small all other tress in this jungle are ...
The 2 higher trees left are nothing but the smallest jungle trees that were too small to be profitable just a few years ago when looting and logging had its peak and most of Cambodian's jungle got lost in the greed of politics and money hungry businessmen.
The real jungle trees I encountered mid seventies where multiple the size of the 2 highest ones in this photo. Jungle trees take 500 and more years to grow. Jungle needs thousands of years to create the natural balance, beauty and strength - and only a few years to be completely destroyed again by mankind.
Logging in this very park still goes on these very months. Just a few hundred meters away from this photo place approximately one hectare of jungle has been looted just recently with death drying branches still all over the bottom of the luted area.

Ream National Park jungle Green beauty - jungle park near Sihanoukville Date/Time: Thu 29 Jan 2009 01:53:30 PM PHT Green beauty - jungle park near Sihanoukville. Jungle slowly recovering from years of looting and logging. Green wonders of nature - Here you find more
jungle images or jungle widescreen wallpaper from national parks near Siem Reap.

Ream National Park green nature Green tropical nature just behind the beaches Date/Time: Thu 29 Jan 2009 02:02:31 PM PHT Green tropical nature just behind the beaches of Ream national park - Kompong Som. Despite mid dry season all nature still is shiny green. A lush nature wonder of unparalleled beauty. ONe of the greatest wonders on earth is the jungle.
Why?
Look at jungle and compare jungle with human created farms. Jungle produces by far more biomass per hectare or square kilometer than any farm. Yet in jungle God applies NO fertilizer, NO pesticides and NO herbicides. Yet all jungle has a complex but perfect harmony within and around. A perfect balanced nature requires no chemicals of any kind and yet is far more productive than any artificial commercial farm ever can be. Hence farmers can learn from jungle - mix culture is the key. Totally mixed plants, bushes, shrubs, trees. Forest or jungle around vegetables and fruit plantations.
All the fertilizer, herbicides and pesticides however are pushed by scientists, agro engineers and chemical industry because it's easy profit from A-Z.
The more chemicals of any kind you apply to nature, the more chemicals you need to balance and repair the damage created by earlier chemicals. At the same time the illness of humans and animals around artificial farming increases - resulting again in increased profits by increased need for healing chemicals and medical products for nature and animal. Chemicals cause damage to God made nature and thus create profitable markets for more chemicals for "healing" attempts of such man made illness and damage to nature and mankind.
God loving people learn to understand how God creates tis perfect balance and live fully integrated into nature rather than imposing human structures onto nature. To become and remain fully integrated part of nature is the key to a healthier life and more productive organic food from nature around us.

Jungle looting in Ream National Park Image shows recent jungle looting in Ream National Park Date/Time: Thu 29 Jan 2009 12:22:30 PM PHT Image shows recent jungle looting in Ream National Park - Sihanoukville. While reforestation projects are minimal if at all existing, jungle looting and logging even of smaller jungle trees still goes on. The lower section of the jungle mountain on this photo shows clear signs of fresh rain forest looting - a national park without protection, still shrinking.

Nature along beaches Nature is a livign pharmacy to keep mankind alive Date/Time: Thu 29 Jan 2009 02:18:29 PM PHT Nature is a living everlasting pharmacy to keep mankind alive, healthy and strong. Hence to maintain tropical nature and let freely evolve all jungles free from any influence by mankind or looting by mankind is essential for the global health far beyond climate!
The nature sceneries shown in this and recent pictures are nature just meters away from ocean. What a great healing power with a clean ocean to take a bath and a wild strong jungle producing healing energy for all planet. An ideal place to recover and enjoy free recreation without machines and chemicals - all natural, all healing made by god - free of charge to all.

Beach nature Ream National Park Grean beauty - nature along Cambodian beaches Date/Time: Thu 29 Jan 2009 02:16:20 PM PHT Grean beauty - nature along Cambodian beaches.
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Beautiful green vegetation along beaches Lush green bushes along beaches - like jewels for your eyes and heart Date/Time: Thu 29 Jan 2009 02:14:13 PM PHT Lush green bushes along beaches - like jewels for your eyes, heart and soul. The greener the better. Mankind never can have enough nature around living and working environment. Best is to live amidst all beautiful nature. Fully integrated into nature. That however requires you to be willing to shrink your ego and accordingly also your housing requirements will shrink until in full harmony with God's creation.

Scenery Cambodia Scenery near Tonle Sap / Siem Reap Date/Time: Fri 23 Jan 2009 08:48:44 AM PHT Scenery near Tonle Sap / Siem Reap. This beautiful pond scenery has been taken during dry season. Imagine how green and water-blessed the Kingdom is during rainy season.

Pond scenery Pond scenery Siem Reap - near Tonle Sap Date/Time: Fri 23 Jan 2009 09:03:10 AM PHT Pond scenery Siem Reap - near Tonle Sap. Beautiful lush green scenery widescreen wallpaper.
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Floating island Little floating vegetation islands in Cambodia's lotus ponds Date/Time: Fri 16 Jan 2009 11:30:26 AM PHT Little floating vegetation islands in Cambodia's lotus ponds. All this lush green grass you see here is on a small floating island. Many of the beautiful lotus ponds have dozens or hundreds of small floating islands. Many of these floating bio-islands are far less than a square meter.
May be another time during my upcoming next visit to Cambodia I may make a special series of macro photography of such floating wonders of nature.

Bougainvillea wallpaper with blue sky background Bougainvillea - blossoming wonders of nature during dry season Date/Time: Thu 22 Jan 2009 10:47:35 AM PHT Bougainvillea - blossoming wonders of nature during dry season. Cambodia like many SE Asian countries is very rich in bougainvillea. Widescreen wallpaper 1920x1200px.
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Salt fields Kampot - Cambodia Large salt production fields in Kampot Date/Time: Sun 01 Feb 2009 09:00:45 AM PHT Salt production in large salt fields Kampot - southern Cambodia.

Flower paradise Cambodia Beautiful Cambodian Hibiscus - wallpaper 1600x1200px Date/Time: Fri 10 Jul 2009 10:24:40 AM PHT Beautiful Cambodian Hibiscus - wallpaper 1600x1200px. Cambodia is a tropical paradise for flowers, fruits and vegetables and of course a truly tropical climate. Hot all year long.
Nature scenery in Cambodia is specially beautiful during or early after rainy season when all nature is lush growing and blossoming.

Lotus fields Widescreen wallpaper 1920x1200px Lotus field in Cambodia Date/Time: Wed 15 Jul 2009 02:52:11 PM PHT Widescreen wallpaper 1920x1200px Lotus fields. Huge lotus fields are abundant specially during rainy season in Cambodia - a lotus paradise for photographers.
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Lotus scenery in Cambodia Typical Cambodian landscape with pink lotus fields Date/Time: Wed 15 Jul 2009 02:48:45 PM PHT Typical Cambodian landscape with pink lotus fields. Rainy season is lotus blossom season - millions of beautiful lotus flowers across the country in the flooded ponds and rice fields or around traditional Cambodian houses.
Lotus is harvested for a variety of uses in Cambodia, including food, ornamental and spiritual, as gift to Buddha in temples. Hence the need for lotus is large.
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Farming in Cambodia A traditional small farmhouse in Cambodia Date/Time: Sun 01 Feb 2009 03:07:10 PM PHT A traditional small farmhouse in Cambodia. Most farming is concentrating on rice farms. Hence half of the year the fields are empty and dry like the one farm shown on the picture here.
All family lives and works together on a farm. Thus family bonds are tight and loving. Traditional values of family is much higher than in industrial countries of Europe or USA where the value of family is near zero and the hunger for ego oriented career is killing more and more family relationships.
Farming in Cambodia is simple and mostly organic. Yet in a country of abundant water and fertile tropical climate the harvest depends only on the farmer's skills to plant and grow in harmony with nature. There is room to improve farming without the use of any chemicals or mono-culture systems.

Vegetables in Cambodia Delicious tropical vegetables grow in Cambodia Date/Time: Fri 16 Jan 2009 09:40:20 AM PHT Delicious tropical vegetables grow in Cambodia. Cambodian food is one of the world's best gourmet food. An old traditional mixture of a wide variety of vegetables, greens, salads and tasty herbal spices are used daily by most Cambodians. As a result there are many small vegetable gardens and vegetable farms. The manual method of irrigation as shown here might appear old fashions or even outdated - BUT - this method is absolutely sufficient to irrigate the vegetable fields and has the advantage of zero cost and zero overhead. No water pumps and no electricity nor fuel is needed. The vegetable harvest is rich and delicious. A healthy source of fresh cheapest and natural God made vitamins and minerals for the body.

Herbal garden A small herbal farm in Cambodia Date/Time: Fri 16 Jan 2009 09:27:52 AM PHT A small herbal farm in Cambodia to supply ample need of delicious and healthy herbal spices for seasoning of Khmer food.
Cambodia is one of the fewer Asian countries using abundance of fresh grown herbal spices in their traditional food along with fresh vegetables. Rather few dried spices are used in Khmer kitchen. Fresh daily harvested herbs are more powerful in their healing nature and far more tasty than dried spices.
A rich use of herbal spices in daily food strengthens the immune system, provides additional vitamins and minerals and makes the food tasty and delicious for all.
In every good kitchen there should be at least several dozen of herbs and spices in use. All the herbs you can grow locally in your own garden always should be produced locally rather than dried or imported.
Learn how to plant your own herbal garden and grow your own herbs. Its fun and delicious and in addition gives your cooking another dimension. Cooking with herbs is health care ! Health care is far cheaper than medicare ! Health care by herbal medicine is an ancient traditional art mastered by women. Out of herbal garden you can produce actual herbal medicine in case of illness. But a herbal garden also provides for delicious herbal teas, herbal baths or massage oils made from your own herbs.
Look at book stores, there are abundant of excellent books available to help you in your adventure into herbal gardening. Enjoy!

Grass harvest Wild high grass as resource for roofing material Date/Time: Sat 17 Jan 2009 10:26:07 AM PHT Wild high grass as resource for roofing material. In tropical countries one of the best and free or cheap roofing material is high grass. Here a farmer girl from a small farm house nearby cuts the strong grass. Later the grass is bundled and dried in the sun - then either used on own hose or also sold on local market as a source of additional revenue.
Bundles of grass as roofing material offer an excellent isolation from the hot tropical sun. Houses with metal roofing often are like a baking oven, while grass covered houses are comfortably cool.

Corn farming in Cambodia Corn field of a farmer near Siem Reap Date/Time: Sat 17 Jan 2009 10:18:01 AM PHT Corn field of a farmer near Siem Reap. When traditional thinking and cultural eating habits are dropped, then new sources of healthy, natural and organic farm products are easily found. Corn grows strong and provides a delicious change to daily rice. In addition this corn field requires no additional watering. Hence corn grows in humid soil during dry season or all year on dry land.

Agriculture potential of Cambodia Unused agriculture land during dry season in Cambodia is frequent Date/Time: Sun 25 Jan 2009 09:08:19 AM PHT Unused agriculture land during dry season in Cambodia is frequent. Soil is made to be alive, to be productive. Empty dry areas as shown in the picture however is frequent in many Asian countries with an old and may be rusty rice culture.
The traditional culture of rice farming and rice eating limits the productivity and thus also the potential revenue of farmers. Here in Cambodia during dry season much of the country's agriculture land is dry and empty.
As shown in the previous pictures, there are alternatives with high productivity and low work needed to turn all land into a year round living resource of valuable food. Corn, vegetables, herbs or fruits are but a few additional possibilities within the limits of climate and water available. No additional investment is needed to turn this dry and empty land into a 2 season year round farm land of much higher productivity. The only change needed is in the head of consumers shifting from rice only priority to a more versatile and also healthier food variety. In addition of course also the farmers need some rethinking of the hundreds of years old farming habits. A little learning may be with support from outside help or government support could turn such dry land into a year round fertile green source of revenue and food for an entire nation and thus also improve the livelihood of farmers in Cambodia.

Typical house in Cambodia Small simple house of a Cambodian family Date/Time: Wed 21 Jan 2009 12:20:23 PM PHT Small simple house of a Cambodian family - better small but own a house than large and owned by a bank! Most Houses in Cambodia are small but functional for an entire family. In tropical climate most of the life is outdoor anyway, hence a house serves but to sleep or rest and as shelter during rainy season.

Khmer house on stilts To adapt for heavy rainy season stilts keep the house high and dry Date/Time: Wed 21 Jan 2009 12:21:46 PM PHT To adapt for heavy rainy season stilt construction keeps the house high and dry. During rainy season much of the country is underwater and traffic between Cambodian houses is often by small row boats.

Luxury Khmer house A rich Khmer family's house Date/Time: Sun 25 Jan 2009 09:07:06 AM PHT A rich Khmer family's house - higher stilts, tile roofing, electricity and other additional comforts. Like most countries on earth, Cambodia as well has a small rich society - often at the expense of the hard working poor farmers.

Pink bougainvillea Abundant beautiful bougainvillea across all Cambodia Date/Time: Sat 31 Jan 2009 12:35:17 PM PHT Abundant beautiful bougainvillea across all Cambodia. Specially during dry season bougainvillea blossom very rich while much of the other tropical vegetation may slow down during the hot dry months.

Laundry place outside the house For most typical Khmer families life is simple and laundry is done outdoor Date/Time: Wed 21 Jan 2009 12:11:52 PM PHT For most typical Khmer families life is simple and laundry is done outdoor in nature. Laundry machines are unknown for normal Cambodian families as well as most other appliances in household. Important work is done by hand - saving money and saving environment pollution and thus saving the planet-

Laundry washing on a small creek All family helps in household work Date/Time: Tue 13 Jan 2009 11:01:33 AM PHT

Elephants in Cambodia Cambodian elephants in tourist industry Date/Time: Wed 14 Jan 2009 10:03:08 AM PHT Cambodian elephants still are used for heavy work and above all in tourist industry to carry lazy people like in ancient times. The ordinary people walk - the richest ones are carried.

Temples in Cambodia aerial view Picture made from a deltaplane Date/Time: Mon 19 Jan 2009 09:23:57 AM PHT Picture of a temple made from a deltaplane outside Angkor Wat Many temples are surrounded by a small artificial lake.

Temple ruins as tourist attraction Tourism is a major revenue source for Cambodia Date/Time: Mon 19 Jan 2009 09:04:15 AM PHT Tourism is a major revenue source for Cambodia at the same time tourist industry also is a major destruction factor in Cambodia. Destroying social peace and healthy clean life. Tourism raises prices for daily goods above affordable for all "normal" citizens and creates huge additional environment pollution and environment destruction.
Some 50% of Cambodian visitors come here for the temple ruins of Angkor Wat.

Hidden temples of Angkor amidst jungle Beautiful jungle covered until recently the dark history of ancient cultures Date/Time: Mon 19 Jan 2009 09:23:38 AM PHT Beautiful jungle covered until recently the dark history of ancient cultures. The success of ancient Khmer culture never can be measured by the beauty of its temples but only by the social peace, freedom for all and love among a people.
Ancient Khmer cultures were but for kings and richest ones - at the expense of all ordinary Khmer people. A truly loving society always succeeds and survives. All else such as ancient Khmer cultures are destined to disappear and make place for a new and hopefully better attempt to unite people on a level of love.

Farm in Cambodia Aerial view of a fruit farm Date/Time: Mon 19 Jan 2009 09:05:45 AM PHT Aerial view of a fruit farm - here mango trees - in northern Cambodia.

Farming in Cambodia Aerial view of small vegetable farm Date/Time: Mon 19 Jan 2009 09:20:32 AM PHT Aerial view of small vegetable farm. Farming typically can be split into rice farms, vegetable farms, tropical fruits, as well as mariculture / aquaculture in Cambodia.

Scenery rainy season Cambodia En route 6 from Phonm Penh to Siem Reap Date/Time: Sun 13 Sep 2009 09:27:16 AM PHT En route 6 from Phonm Penh to Siem Reap. Rainy season scenery with flooded rice fields all along route Nr 6. Cambodia is rich in water and all water related products such as rice and edible aquatic life.
The following 26 pictures are all from sceneries along route Nr 6 between Phnom Penh and Siem Reap.

Scenery Cambodia Small hills amidst huge plains from Phnom Penh to Siem Reap Date/Time: Sun 13 Sep 2009 09:41:38 AM PHT Small hills amidst huge plains from Phnom Penh to Siem Reap. Beautiful green nature scenery are abundant during mid and late rainy season in Cambodia.

Lotus fields along route 6 Beautiful lotus during rainy season Date/Time: Sun 13 Sep 2009 09:43:12 AM PHT Beautiful lotus during rainy season - greener and fresher than during dry season. All sceneries are more beautiful now.

Huge rice field scenery as wide as your eyes can see Many kilometers wide - one huge field with rice and palms Date/Time: Sun 13 Sep 2009 09:48:24 AM PHT Many kilometers wide - one huge field with rice and palm trees. Typical scenery along route Nr 6. All flat and flooded with rain water during the months of rain season.

Rice field scenery Cambodia All green and high now - the rice is soon ready for harest Date/Time: Sun 13 Sep 2009 09:48:58 AM PHT All green and high now - the rice is soon ready for harvest. Between Phnom Penh and Siem Reap you see hundreds of square kilometers rice fields during rainy season. During dry season most of this agriculture potential is unused!

Nature scenery Cambodia Millions of lotus flowers along road 6 Date/Time: Sun 13 Sep 2009 09:51:16 AM PHT Millions of lotus flowers along road 6 - side by side with huge rice fields. Beautiful green tropical nature scenery specially during rain season in Cambodia, i.e. between May and November each year. The later in rain season, the greener. That was the reason I timed my photo travel to Cambodia for September onward.

Palms and rice field scenery Cambodia Bushes and palms amidst rice fields Date/Time: Sun 13 Sep 2009 10:00:23 AM PHT Bushes and palms amidst rice fields - beautiful sceneries of green rice fields and tropical vegetation.

Village scenery along route 6 Cambodia Many fruit trees protect the houses Date/Time: Sun 13 Sep 2009 10:27:54 AM PHT Many fruit trees protect the houses. Typically the small villages are almost hidden amidst lush green trees and vegetation. Many fruits trees and lotus ponds add to the quality of life and beauty of nature scenery.

Just a little rain Flooded villages and housing areas are normal during rainy season Date/Time: Sun 13 Sep 2009 11:04:34 AM PHT Flooded villages and housing areas are normal during rainy season. All houses are properly prepared for heavy rain and flooded villages.

Rain season scenery Cambodia Lush green tropical vegetation and blossoming flowers Date/Time: Sun 13 Sep 2009 11:09:16 AM PHT Lush green tropical vegetation and blossoming flowers. Cambodia has a beautiful tropical vegetation and lots of exotic flowers and fruit trees. During rain months all Cambodia is even more beautiful and more tropical - hot, humid and wet all the way!

Rice field scenery Huge fields many kilometers wide as wide as you can see Date/Time: Sun 13 Sep 2009 11:19:58 AM PHT Huge fields many kilometers wide as wide as you can see - rice as a main resource of food occupies top place in agriculture. Here in the pictures you see why. What other crop or vegetable could survive many months of total flooding?
During the many dry months however these very fields are mostly empty and dry - unused agriculture resources for alternate farming products requiring less or no irrigation. May be corn would be worth an attempt.

Village with lily pond Most houses along road 6 have a lotus or lily pond Date/Time: Sun 13 Sep 2009 11:45:31 AM PHT Most houses along road 6 have a lotus or lily pond. Hence the small villages are colorful and green. The lotus ponds or lily ponds serve multiple purpose. As storage of irrigation water for smaller gardens around the house during dry season. As resource for aquatic life converted into food and as a beautiful decoration to improve the quality of life in villages.

Healthy life scenery Cambodia The greatest treasure in health is a clean nature around your home Date/Time: Sun 13 Sep 2009 11:46:20 AM PHT The greatest treasure in health is a clean nature around your home. Healthy living requires healthy and natural environment directly surrounding your home.
While some may consider such life poor, in reality these people save thousands of dollars in medical care in exchange for living amidst lush green nature. Such scenery once was normal for all humans. The greed for bigger houses with more living space of many however made it impossible for all city population to live fully integrated into nature as the picture here shows. To be fully integrated into nature with small houses fully surrounded by healthy nature however is possible for all and desirable for all. All you need to learn is to shrink your own ego, then your requirements in excess luxury also shrink proportionally until you have regained a natural status of a loving human integrated in nature instead of imposed onto nature.
If you have any problem in integrating yourself into nature - then may be you ask yourself the critical question: What if all would do the same. What if all 6+ Billion would have multiple rooms or multiple houses, multiple cars, etc. Answer: The planet would instantly die - all humanity and you as well!

Rice field underwater Completely underwater - but still a rice field Date/Time: Sun 13 Sep 2009 11:57:15 AM PHT Completely underwater - but still a rice field. The rice still is alive and just waiting for later weeks when rain slows down and water level drops.

Blessed by water in abundance Every year underwater - every year bearing rich harvest Date/Time: Sun 13 Sep 2009 11:59:14 AM PHT Every year underwater - every year bearing rich harvest thanks you abundance in water during rainy season the soil is fertile and produces quantities of rice and aquatic life as most valuable food resources for all Cambodia.
Such sceneries are no exception but normal every year since a long time. As a result all Khmer culture has adapted to life with water, on water, surrounded by water and living from water resources.

Water as the source of life No water - NO life Date/Time: Sun 13 Sep 2009 12:12:12 PM PHT No water - NO life. Life without food is easier for many days than life without water. Without water all food resources would die. Hence the maintenance of clean natural water and a clean water environment is essential for the wellbeing and life of all planet.

Without water no food - no life The key to life is to have natural free water in abundance Date/Time: Sun 13 Sep 2009 12:50:10 PM PHT The key to life is to have natural free water in abundance! Filtering or processed water is no substitute and no solution to the global water problem. Water needs to be reestablished in its original quality. Free from any pollution no matter the cost in financial or economical loss. Life is infinitely more valuable than any profits by industrialization!
Originally and until some 50-70 years ago, most rivers, creeks and ground water sources where of drinking quality of near drinking quality without any processing.
As a result all vegetables and other food needing water were healthy and clean all the way. In modern times all soil, all groundwater and all well water either is polluted or death. Resulting in polluted food growing out of polluted water or sick, weak vegetation needing all kinds of chemicals in an attempt to keep vegetation alive.

Blessed by a powerful rainy season When rain no longer is clean - then food no longer remains healthy Date/Time: Sun 13 Sep 2009 12:51:12 PM PHT When rain no longer is clean - then food no longer remains healthy. No matter how powerful the rainy season is. The vital point always is to have a clean pure rain irrigating the planet. If however the rain water itself no longer is drinking quality, then the food growing with that rain also no longer is edible quality!
To avoid a global disaster, mankind needs to learn to shrink its needs and requirements and learn as well to fully integrate into nature again. Mankind needs to learn to live with nature, from nature, serving nature as its main resource of healthy life.
I have never seen anyone eating household appliances or electronic gadgets. The profits or wages earned by working in industries finally always is needed to buy food. Hence instead of working FOR industries to gain money, lagter used to buy food, we could as well work again much more for farming and gardening to directly produce the natural, clean and healthy organic food we otherwise would have to buy with money earned in ill-making jobs in an ill-making and polluted industrial environment.

Cambodian nature scenery All life is centered around water and nature Date/Time: Sun 13 Sep 2009 12:56:59 PM PHT All life is centered around water and nature in Cambodia. A long history of agriculture and aqua culture to provide natural food for its Khmer population. Picture shows a nature scenery along road 6 from Phnom Penh to Siem Reap during rainy season.

Cambodian rain season scenery A Khmer house surrounded by water and lush green vegetation Date/Time: Sun 13 Sep 2009 01:12:07 PM PHT A Khmer house surrounded by water and lush green vegetation. A beautiful scenery of a culture adapted to annual heavy rain falls. The houses are slightly on higher grounds and all Khmer houses are built traditionally on stilts to be fully protected from even highest flooding!

Landscape Cambodia during rainy season Brown water flooding all fields during rain months Date/Time: Sun 13 Sep 2009 01:14:04 PM PHT Brown water flooding all fields during rain months. Nature easily can adapt, so do Khmer as well.

Landscape Cambodia rainy season House to house by boat Date/Time: Sun 13 Sep 2009 01:26:13 PM PHT House to house by boat - all are prepared and during months of flooded landscape in Cambodia, all communication house to house often is done by small row boat during rainy season.

Rainy landscape in Cambodia People always have been attracted by water Date/Time: Sun 13 Sep 2009 01:26:23 PM PHT People always have been attracted by water. Thus landscapes where houses are built at water's edge are normal. Some cultures however have adapted better in all their life and work than others. Khmer have long time ago adapted to a life at water's edge or on water by building houses on stilts and using small row boats from house to house.
Children take a bath and have fun. The water is brown - from brown soil - but chemically cleaner than most "clean" lakes in Europe and other industrial countries.

Landscape with lotus Cambodia may as well be the Kingdom of Lotus flowers Date/Time: Sun 13 Sep 2009 02:05:22 PM PHT Cambodia may as well be the Kingdom of Lotus flowers with countless beautiful lotus flower landscapes such as the scenery on this picture. Millions of lotus flowers in pink and white color. In addition Millions of water lilies and other water plants and water flowers to further enhance the tropical beauty of Cambodia's nature environment.

Landscape Cambodia A sunny day during rainy season Date/Time: Sun 13 Sep 2009 02:46:35 PM PHT A sunny day during rainy season - beautiful green tropical landscape flooded with rain water during all rainy season.

Landscape green Cambodia All Cambodia is green during entire rainy season Date/Time: Sun 13 Sep 2009 02:54:10 PM PHT All Cambodia is green during entire rainy season. Beautiful lush green vegetation turn all Cambodia into a delight for nature lovers with beautiful green landscapes and strong tropical vegetation.

Khmer village safely underwater All houses built on stilts - all village is safe Date/Time: Sun 13 Sep 2009 01:22:06 PM PHT All houses built on stilts - all village is safe even in highest water levels during rainy season. Khmer have adapted their way of life and housing already a very long time ago.

Khmer house on stilts Here you see why Khmer houses are built on stilts Date/Time: Sun 13 Sep 2009 01:23:16 PM PHT Here you see why Khmer houses are built on stilts - to be completely safe and dry even during highest rain water levels. Flooding rain water levels as seen in this picture however are normal levels each year for many weeks or months later in rain season.

Cambodia is a country of blossoms A beautiful blossoming shrub about 3-4 mtrs high Date/Time: Mon 14 Sep 2009 10:18:54 AM PHT A beautiful blossoming shrub in yellow - about 3-4 mtrs high. Along roads thousands of blossoming trees and beautiful tropical shrubs all over Cambodia.

Tonle Sap - floating village A tourist attraction near Siem Reap Date/Time: Sat 19 Sep 2009 06:35:01 PM PHT A tourist attraction near Siem Reap are the floating houses on Tonle Sap. A village of house boats or floating houses - people living on the lake.

Family boat - Tonle Sap 3 persons in one family boat Date/Time: Sat 19 Sep 2009 06:30:47 PM PHT 3 persons in one family boat - the 3rd person is apparently sleeping. A family boat typical transportation in the floating village on Tonle Sap.
Many of us have a family van, others a family helicopter or jet airplane. People here are modest and are happy with a small boat.
If you are looking for the third person - look behind the child, you see the legs of the last passenger.

Creating waves prohibited Traffic sign floating village - Tonle Sap Date/Time: Sat 19 Sep 2009 06:30:42 PM PHT Traffic sign floating village - Tonle Sap. Imagine you live in a small houseboat and are cooking, or having a hot tea and a ruthless boat driver passes by your floating home, creating huge waves to spill your hot oil or hot tea on a baby ...
Hence this sign to stop wave creation is the only traffic sign on the water ways on Tonle Sap floating village. The next picture shows you why such boat traffic signs are needed on the water.

Ruthless boat traffic in floating village A few one may destroy the peace and security of an entire village Date/Time: Sat 19 Sep 2009 06:30:55 PM PHT A few one may destroy the peace and security of an entire village. On my trip through the village only about one out of 20 boats were ruthlessly driving and creating waves. Just exceptions - but a few ones are enough to destroy the peace and safety of an entire village. Hence the NO waves signs as shown on the previous picture.

Floating home on Tonle Sap May be simple but may be more happy than you ... Date/Time: Sat 19 Sep 2009 06:25:03 PM PHT May be simple but may be more happy than you ... Because no one envies these people in the floating village. no rich ones want to take their home or property away. most of them own their "property". Hence these people may be "poor" when compared financially with your situation or millions of others. But can millions of others say to "own" a HOME no matter how big or small? Most have their home owned by the bank which financed the oversized home.
The floating village on Tonle sap has an old tradition.

Living on a lake - beautiful scenery Floating home attached to non-floating tree Date/Time: Sat 19 Sep 2009 06:24:36 PM PHT Floating home attached to non-floating tree. Life on Tonle sap lake's in the floating village. First I thought that some of the floating boats had floating flower pots or floating trees ... But of course these trees are growing here in the water. During rainy season Tonle Sap is about 4 times larger and several meters higher than during dry season.
A lake with huge variety of aquatic life, fish, crocodile farms and of course a beautiful and clean nature scenery to live.

Floating business scenery Multiple floating homes attached to a single tree Date/Time: Sat 19 Sep 2009 06:24:26 PM PHT Multiple floating homes attached to a single tree. Floating family business and floating family boats all attached to a tree. Tonle Sap floating village - Cambodia.
In the floating village you find all a regular village has to offer. Restaurants, mechanical shops, all kind of floating businesses a community needs. Often grouped like here in this picture a few different floating homes attached to each other or fixed to a tree.

Beautiful floating village scenery Floating water plants around floating homes Date/Time: Sat 19 Sep 2009 06:23:15 PM PHT Floating water plants around floating homes. Just like other houses may have grass or flowers in their surrounding garden, the floating village has floating water plants. Often a few house boats are grouped around a single tree.
If ever you travel to Cambodia and Siem Reap - then enjoy a tour by boat to the floating village. best time is late afternoon hours just before sunset.
More pictures from same province Jungle wallpaper and some travel information Cambodia may motivate you for a visit to the kingdom of lotus flowers.

Sunset hours on lake Tonle Sap Sunset hours without red sun Date/Time: Sat 19 Sep 2009 06:37:11 PM PHT Sunset hours without red sun by the end of my floating village trip there was clear sky from horizon to horizon almost every where except exactly at the sunset point of the horizon.
During my previous visit in dry season January / February however I enjoyed a beautiful red sunset - except that I lost all my sunset pictures twice. Once I recovered all, seconds later they all magically disappeared again for good. May be I have to wait until next dry season to get a real red sunset on Tonle Sap.

Cambodia scenery floating village Late afternoon on Tonle Sap lake Date/Time: Sat 19 Sep 2009 06:24:31 PM PHT Late afternoon on Tonle Sap lake - a peaceful village scenery picture on Asia's largest fresh water lake.

Rainy season Cambodia - Siem Reap Just simple rainy season - nothing special .... Date/Time: Fri 02 Oct 2009 05:38:55 PM PHT The previous 2 or 3 days it was raining a little in Siem Reap - hence the river overflowing and some streets flooded in city. Outside city, like here on the picture, the rice fields are overflowing. Nothing special - just normal rainy season in Cambodia.
Khmer people are smart and have adapted since very long their houses to be on stilts. City people here ... that's a different story. May be lacking fresh air and physical work and thus brain sometimes milky. Houses in cities are western style and hence a few hundred houses in Siem Reap along river are flooded. Means up to thousands of dollars damage per house. In other province we have some "flooding" as well these past many weeks. None of the real Khmer houses affected.
May be we all should spend less years at school and more years in real life to have more time to learn traditional ways of living and real life topics!

Siem Reap rainy season scenery Flooded fields just outside the city Date/Time: Fri 02 Oct 2009 05:38:51 PM PHT Cambodia is extremely flat - hence during rainy season water flows slowly and much of the Kingdom is flooded like one huge lake with all kinds of edible aquatic life in all fields. People are used to this type of rainy season since centuries and have adapted lifestyle and housing accordingly since long.

Siem Reap - flooded streets Wrong city architecture - flooded cities and damged homes Date/Time: Fri 02 Oct 2009 05:51:58 PM PHT Modern cities may suffer from annual rain and flooding due to wrong city architecture and wrong city planning.

Khmer villages with houses on stilts are all safe during annual rainy season. Cities however are flooeded and may suffer annual damage and loss due to wrong city planning and wesern style houses.

A traditional Khmer house on stilts is fully integrated into the rainy season environment. People have adapted and all houses are safe and dry, while the rising water can freely flow through the entire village without causing any damage at all.

In modern cities however the western style houses and roads all resist or block the free flow of water and thus western style cities cause damage to nature and nature causes damage to wrong houses!

Smart people learn from nature - while intelligent people try to teach nature.

Cambodia dry season vs rainy season Near Siem Reap - dry season Date/Time: Sun 25 Jan 2009 10:39:08 AM PHT Near Siem Reap - dry season January 25 2009. The following picture shows the same area and same view during rainy season October 2nd 2009.

As you see dry season is brown, dusty - while rainy season is lush, tropical green - a nature photographers and nature lovers paradise!

Cambodia rainy season vs dry season Green rainy season scenery - same location as previous picture Date/Time: Fri 02 Oct 2009 04:20:10 PM PHT Green rainy season scenery - same location as previous picture. Cambodia has a beautiful rainy season with regular sunshine hours almost daily.
rarely you have rain season days without sunny hours or rainy season nights without stars on the sky.
But if it rains - then it really is getting wet as the previous pictures from flooded fields or cities show.
In the following pictures I give you a few comparisons on same or similar locations during my earlier visit January/February dry season - vs this current visit September / October rainy season. The you see for yourself which season of the year you may prefer for your possible visit. For nature photographers it definitely is much nicer during rainy season if you have ample time to wait indoor during heavy rain days or cloudy days / weeks. For those times I have hundreds or thousands of hours work on stock. Like unprocessed pictures or other web publisher / SEO related work.

Dry season scenery - Cambodia Dusty dry season results in limited visibility Date/Time: Sun 25 Jan 2009 10:11:50 AM PHT Dusty dry season results in limited visibility. This picture shows again same location as the next photo. Comparing the 2 scenery photos shows you that visibility during dry season is far less than during rainy season.
During dry season we often have a thin layer of dust across wide areas of the country.

Rainy season scenery - Cambodia Lush green tropical vegetation and beautiful green scenery Date/Time: Fri 02 Oct 2009 04:08:25 PM PHT Lush green tropical vegetation and beautiful green scenery during rainy season. As you see and compare with the same scenery of the previous picture, the visibility during rainy season is much better.
We had a few rainy days and now several sunny days will most likely follow. Time for nature photography!

Beautiful nature scenery Cambodia Lush green nature - scenery outside Siem Reap Date/Time: Fri 02 Oct 2009 04:06:32 PM PHT Lush green nature - scenery outside Siem Reap. Beautiful view into the wide flat area with a few small hills or mini-mountains.

Panoramic view from Phnom Bok A beautiful scenic view into the far neighborhood Date/Time: Fri 02 Oct 2009 04:18:55 PM PHT A beautiful scenic view into the far neighborhood of Phnom Bok. This picture as well as all previous ones ( after the floating village photos ) are all made from Phnom Bok.

Phnom Bok entrance Some 210 meters high - a hill with a beautiful scenic view Date/Time: Fri 02 Oct 2009 04:45:40 PM PHT Some 210 meters high - a hill with a beautiful scenic view. A few dozen kilometers outside Siem Reap is Phnom Bok. Phnom means mountain. We have lots of "Phnom" in Camnbodia. However most of these Phnom are more like hills. Nevertheless always worth climbing up and enjoying a beautiful scenic view into all directions.

Phnom Bok going up Two ways going up - direct stairs or a traditional path Date/Time: Fri 02 Oct 2009 04:44:26 PM PHT Two ways going up - direct stairs or a traditional path. Last time in January I took the stairs up, this time the slalom path through low jungle.

Phnom Bok 631 steps Down the 631 steps of the stairs with a beautiful view toward the village Date/Time: Fri 02 Oct 2009 04:19:35 PM PHT Down the 631 steps of the stairs with a beautiful view toward the village. I never counted the steps, but a friendly policeman who was my guiding "angel" up and down told me the number. Take both, one way stairs and one way the nature path.

Nature scenery Phnom Bok High resolution scenery picture Date/Time: Fri 02 Oct 2009 04:21:25 PM PHT High resolution scenery picture from top of Phnom Bok into the neighborhood.

Nature scenery Phnom Bok Green fertile agriculture land and rice fields Date/Time: Fri 02 Oct 2009 04:24:03 PM PHT Green fertile agriculture land and rice fields scenery as seen from Phnom Bok top of the hill.

Phnom Bok Pagoda A peaceful small Pagoda and a few monks on top of Phnom Bok Date/Time: Fri 02 Oct 2009 04:09:51 PM PHT A peaceful small pagoda and a few monks on top of Phnom Bok. A quiet place to find inner peace and meditate - with a beautiful scenic view and most beautiful full moon nights, sunsets and sunrises during dry season.

Fruit tree on top of Phnom Bok Never seen before exotic fruits Date/Time: Fri 02 Oct 2009 04:09:10 PM PHT Never seen before exotic fruits. Not yet ripe, too early to taste this fruit. But on the way UP the nature path, my "police-angel" guide found another small fruit and we shared it. A small, extremely delicious tasty exotic fruit as well. Never seen before on any market during the many decades of traveling the world.
Cambodia is full of exotic flowers, fruits and all kinds of even more exotic life forms in jungle and waters.

Phnom Bok scenic view View toward mountains Date/Time: Fri 02 Oct 2009 04:04:41 PM PHT The other side of Phnom Bok top - behind the temple ruins, offers a beautiful scenic view toward the distant mountains. As you can easily see, even those distant mountains are but a few hundred meters in altitude and mostly jungle covered with real high dense Cambodian jungle.

Ruins on top of Phnom Bok Old temple remains from ancient times Date/Time: Fri 02 Oct 2009 04:03:07 PM PHT Old temple remains from ancient times. Good things survive and prosper, mistakes disappear ... So do all the remaining ruins from ancient Khmer empire disappear more and more.

Temple ruins Phnom Bok Dominating the world - from top of the mountain Date/Time: Fri 02 Oct 2009 04:01:44 PM PHT Dominating the world - from top of the mountain - that's what mankind always tries to do. To be above others, to dominate others, even to be higher than God ...
The result of all such attempts always is the same: Failure!
The one who can humble himself and serve all mankind may be lifted to the highest places in heaven by the power of God's love.

Temple ruins Phnom Bok Piles of stones Date/Time: Fri 02 Oct 2009 03:59:28 PM PHT Piles of stones are the only left over from ancient Angkor empire. Mighty ones wanted to dominate then and failed, mighty ones want to dominate the Khmer people again now and fail as well.

Love as a means of politics is completely unknown on this entire planet. Love however is the only way to "reign" a people - love for all from the bottom of a soul.

Lotus scenery Lotus production to satisfy cultural needs Date/Time: Wed 07 Oct 2009 04:21:32 PM PHT Lotus production to satisfy cultural needs. The many Buddhist pagodas require quantities of fresh lotus flowers. As a result we see millions of beautiful pink and white lotus flowers across the Kingdom. May be hundred thousands of more lotus fields and lotus ponds can be found all over Cambodia.

Lotus flowers scenery Large beautiful lotus fields are abundant in Cambodia Date/Time: Wed 07 Oct 2009 04:28:02 PM PHT Large beautiful lotus fields are abundant in Cambodia. The markets are full with fresh lotus buds prepared as offerings for Buddhist pagodas. Lotus flowers certainly are an important agriculture product. As a gift to society we enjoy a large number of beautiful blooming lotus sceneries.

Lotus field scenery Siem Reap Near floating village - Tonle sap Date/Time: Sun 13 Sep 2009 09:38:53 AM PHT Near floating village - Tonle sap - are many very large lotus fields with large pink lotus and white lotus flowers. Beautiful scenery pictures to experience specially after a few rainy days when lotus blooms fresh and cleanly in abundance.

Lotus field sceneries Siem Reap Many beautiful lotus field sceneries outside the city Date/Time: Sun 13 Sep 2009 09:21:22 AM PHT Many beautiful lotus field sceneries outside Siem Reap. Toward floating village on Tonle Sap are beautiful sceneries with large blooming lotus fields with white and pink lotus flowers, amidst rice fields and beautiful tropical nature vegetation.

Many more such beautiful lotus sceneries are found toward the mountains and all along road 6 to Phnom Penh. However the more you move away from main roads and cities, the cleaner and greener the lotus fields and lotus flowers.

Cambodia is the kingdom of lotus flowers. If you love these beautiful sacred flowers, then you certainly may enjoy some of the beautiful lotus widescreen, or standard desktop lotus wallpapers and also enjoy the beautiful lotus pictures as free greeting cards.

Beautiful Cambodian landscape Huge rice fields decorated with palm trees and wild bushes Date/Time: Sun 13 Sep 2009 09:50:42 AM PHT Huge rice fields decorated with palm trees and wild bushes to maintain a natural balance in nature. While in the Philippines most of the rice fields use abundance of chemicals - herbicides, pesticide, fungicide - here in Cambodia chemicals are rarely if at all used in agriculture. Resulting in much more natural and more healthy agriculture products.

Huge beautiful green rice fields I love these beautiful green water flooded rice fields ! Date/Time: Sun 13 Sep 2009 11:19:41 AM PHT I love these beautiful green water flooded rice fields ! The green color is refreshing, the water clean and the air pure and free of pollution. Thanks to an almost inexistent industry, the environment destruction is very limited and the nature beautiful clean.

Lots of life filled water between rice fields A wealth of food in and around the rice fields Date/Time: Sun 13 Sep 2009 12:01:38 PM PHT A wealth of food in and around the rice fields: Edible snails, turtles, snakes, fish, crabs and other edible food resources from rice fields and the waters between rice fields.

Horizon to horizon rice field sceneries Few mountains - mostly flat landscapes Date/Time: Sun 13 Sep 2009 12:02:10 PM PHT Few mountains - mostly flat landscapes in Cambodia. Except the few mountain jungle regions of the Kingdom.

Landscape Cambodia Typical scenery - lotus pond, rice field and lush green vegetation Date/Time: Sun 13 Sep 2009 12:06:04 PM PHT Typical scenery - lotus pond, rice field and lush green vegetation around the houses and villages. A healthy natural environment amidst a beautiful nature.

Village scenery Cambodia Beautiful small houses fully integrated into nature Date/Time: Sun 13 Sep 2009 12:06:07 PM PHT Beautiful small houses fully integrated into nature. Peaceful small villages. Simple but happy life as long as you are a farmer and supply your own food. Nature is fertile and the climate ideal for farming.

Village scenery Cambodia Beautiful small houses in clean nature Date/Time: Sun 13 Sep 2009 12:06:40 PM PHT Beautiful small houses fully integrated into nature sceneries.

Cambodian village scenery Palms, lily ponds and tropical nature vegetation Date/Time: Sun 13 Sep 2009 12:12:14 PM PHT Palms, lily ponds and tropical nature vegetation between houses and around the villages.

Beautiful nature landscape Cambodia A village surrounded by nature Date/Time: Sun 13 Sep 2009 12:51:07 PM PHT A village surrounded by nature. Living where your work is and working where you have healthy natural living environment amidst and surrounded by family and friends !

Rice field Banteay Srei temple The temple is surrounded by nature Date/Time: Sun 11 Oct 2009 04:14:56 PM PHT The temple is surrounded by nature - a green beautiful rice field on one side, and jungle left overs on another side.

Banteay Srei temple sculptures Some like culture - others prefer nature - Cambodia offers all Date/Time: Sun 11 Oct 2009 04:29:44 PM PHT Some like culture - others prefer nature - Cambodia offers all. Banteay Srei is a small temple from 10th century.

Banteay Srei temple Center of temple compound Date/Time: Sun 11 Oct 2009 04:32:27 PM PHT Center of temple compound

Banteay Srei temple picture Temple with large jungle trees in background Date/Time: Sun 11 Oct 2009 04:34:01 PM PHT Temple with large jungle trees in background

Banteay Srei temple with jungle trees A few old jungle trees are left from good old times Date/Time: Sun 11 Oct 2009 04:35:20 PM PHT A few old jungle trees are left from good old times when the temple was protected by jungle to be recycled by nature.

Banteay Srei temple with monks Cambodia is rich in monks Date/Time: Sun 11 Oct 2009 04:36:04 PM PHT Cambodia is rich in monks - unfortunately for the country most monks are busy doing nothing. True spirituality requires active involvement in real life and an example life for others to follow.

Banteay Srei temple photo Good cultures survive - mistakes are scheduled to end on its own Date/Time: Sun 11 Oct 2009 04:37:41 PM PHT Good cultures survive - mistakes are scheduled to end on its own. All Angkorian culture ended because it contained or produced no benefit for the Khmer people at all. It was a culture and empire for kings - thus planned to go under and be recycled by nature for the protection and benefit of the real people.
All truly beneficial cultures survive - all mistakes end as a lack of God's bliss and support.

Jungle trees outside Banteay Srei temple The most beautiful part of all Angkor temples is the jungle nature Date/Time: Sun 11 Oct 2009 04:38:15 PM PHT The most beautiful part of all Angkor temples is the jungle nature. A century ago most of all Angkor temples were more or less fully covered by jungle and wild, beautiful nature.

Banteay Srei temple Some 40 kms outside Siem reap Date/Time: Sun 11 Oct 2009 04:40:37 PM PHT Some 40 kms outside Siem reap amidst beautiful nature sceneries. Enjoy the trip through the beautiful nature TO the temple rather than the small ancient temple itself.

Jungle behind Banteay Srei temple Small areas of jungle vegetation behind the temple Date/Time: Sun 11 Oct 2009 04:44:59 PM PHT Small areas of jungle vegetation behind the actual temple compound remind you of the previous beauty of the region before excavation started.

Jungle nature Banteay Srei temple Dense tropical vegetation Date/Time: Sun 11 Oct 2009 04:45:38 PM PHT Dense tropical vegetation behind the temple.

Landscape Cambodia - dense bush Just miles before Phnom Dei - this bush nature scenery Date/Time: Tue 13 Oct 2009 05:00:46 PM PHT Just miles before Phnom Dei - this bush nature scenery some 40+ kilometers out of Siem Reap toward Phnom Dei.

Beautiful nature scenery Cambodia Lots of water sceneries during rainy season Date/Time: Tue 13 Oct 2009 04:58:48 PM PHT Lots of water sceneries during rainy season. As picture before, this nature scenery is just before Phnom Dei.

Reforestation with Eucalyptus trees A few attempts to start reforestation for looted jungle Date/Time: Tue 13 Oct 2009 04:54:00 PM PHT A few attempts to start reforestation for looted jungle. The reforestation projects are minimal and insufficient. In addition such mono-culture reforestations are of no value to nature at all rather disturbing nature b y creating imbalance. True reforestation projects require a deeper understanding of the planet's needs and a study of jungle. Reforestation needs to fully reforest wild mixed looted jungle by equal mixture of thousands of different trees and bushes to be of any value to nature and planet.

Phnom Dei scenery picture A small mountain some 250+ meters above sea level Date/Time: Tue 13 Oct 2009 05:09:11 PM PHT A small jungle covered mountain 250+ meters above sea level some 40+ kms outside Siem Reap, a few kms after Banteay Srei.

Green nature scenery Cambodia Beautiful green nature scenery en route to Koh Ker temple Date/Time: Fri 16 Oct 2009 09:40:44 AM PHT Beautiful green nature scenery en route to Koh Ker temple. 1080p scenery wallpaper. This and the following several photos are from sceneries along the way from Benk Melea to Koh Ker temple.
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The ideal Cambodian house A typical house Khmer style Date/Time: Fri 16 Oct 2009 08:47:29 AM PHT A typical house Khmer style with all components a classic Cambodian house has. A Khmer house is away from the road, amidst the property, surrounded by garden, fields, flowers. This very beautiful small wooden house has a green rice field growing under and around the house.
Most Cambodian houses have what you see in this picture:
A lotus pond - here tiny but with pink lotus flowers.
Palm trees
Banana plants
A garden with vegetables and herbs
Blossoming trees or shrubs - here red hibiscus
Various trees, agriculture fields and flowers.

This house has a few eucalyptus trees.
With all those a.m. listed valuables in your own garden, your life is affordable, health care by nature and an essential rule is followed: Live where you work and work where you live. Live and work in a natural and pleasant environment with sufficient space for all family and children.

Green nature to Koh Ker Temple The more we move from Beng Melea to Koh Ker - the greener nature Date/Time: Fri 16 Oct 2009 08:59:40 AM PHT The more we move from Beng Melea to Koh Ker - the greener nature and the more jungle we enjoy. Rice fields surrounded by jungle, beautiful green nature sceneries. My main reason for this full day nature photo trip.

Jungle vegetation to Koh Ker More and more jungle both sides of the road to Koh Ker Date/Time: Fri 16 Oct 2009 09:03:13 AM PHT More and more jungle both sides of the road to Koh Ker. About half distance from Beng Melea to Koh Ker jungle vegetation starts to become truly beautiful and lush.

Some 30 kms after Beng Melea, the good road ends and bumpy dirt road starts for another 30 or so kilometers to Koh ker temples.

Beautiful green vegetation to Koh Ker temples Tropical mountains in Background on the road to Koh Ker Date/Time: Fri 16 Oct 2009 09:42:11 AM PHT Tropical mountains in Background on the road to Koh Ker. The rice fields are high and green but soon ready for harvest.

Wide areas of looted jungle to Koh Ker Almost the entire jungle is missing the larger trees Date/Time: Fri 16 Oct 2009 10:29:17 AM PHT Almost the entire jungle is missing the larger trees. In 1995 during an earlier visit to Cambodia, most of the jungle still was untouched, thus full with huge jungle trees. Now may be half of more of Cambodians jungle has been looted. Most of the looting has occurred in the post war years, specially after 1990-95.

Here from Beng Melea to Koh Ker temples the large trees are missing and the half size jungle trees of often burnt to make place for rice and other agriculture land.

Jungle with large trees mostly missing Typical jungle scenery to Koh Ker Date/Time: Fri 16 Oct 2009 10:36:06 AM PHT Typical jungle scenery to Koh Ker - dense low growth and a few half size jungle trees.

Wild jungle flowers along the road to Koh Ker Many beautiful jungle flowers along the route Date/Time: Fri 16 Oct 2009 11:38:44 AM PHT Many beautiful jungle flowers along the route. The only real reason to go on this long trip was the nature I expected and found along the road. Many tropical jungle flowers along the way. See next pictures.

Exotic jungle flowers Many of these beautiful flowers along the road to Koh Ker Date/Time: Fri 16 Oct 2009 11:39:31 AM PHT Many of these beautiful flowers along the road to Koh Ker during the last 20 or 30kms.

Papaya and Banana farm Thousands of square kilometers looted jungle partially converted to farm land Date/Time: Fri 16 Oct 2009 11:39:09 AM PHT Thousands of square kilometers looted jungle partially converted to farm land. Here a papaya and banana farm.

Koh Ker temple complex pictures One of the first parts of the Koh Ker temple complex - a Stupa Date/Time: Fri 16 Oct 2009 12:03:28 PM PHT One of the first parts of the Koh Ker temple complex - a Stupa. After a long drive through a beautiful nature scenery from Beng Melea to Koh Ker, the first ruins start to appear in looted jungle.

Koh Ker temple complex Date/Time: Fri 16 Oct 2009 12:13:53 PM PHT Temple ruins mostly buried under beautiful jungle and nature vegetation. Koh Ker once an ancient capital of Cambodia, located in Kulen district. The Koh Ker complex is on the Chhork Koki highland and was built by King Jayavaraman IV - 928-942 AC.
Sunken ancient cultures are unsuccessful cultures and belong to where they are - buried under natures protective growth.
Some 96 temples have been found in Koh Ker and much more jungle will be destroyed to uncover more old stones and make more business out of stones. Temple business is money business vs life supporting nature and jungle. What is more valuable to mankind, to the life supporting nature of the entire planet: A healthy, wild and strong jungle or a few hundred million dollars in temporary tourist business in favor of a few ones ?
Mankind will instantly die without nature while nature may eternally prosper without mankind.

Beautiful Koh Ker temple lake scenery My most favorite scenery in all Koh Ker was this lake scenery Date/Time: Fri 16 Oct 2009 12:20:16 PM PHT My most favorite scenery in all Koh Ker was this most beautiful lake view inside the Koh Ker temple complex. The true beauty of all Koh Ker temple is the nature surrounding the ancient temple ruins. Once a short while ago all ruins where completely covered by beautiful jungle and tropical vegetation. Now more and more of this nature scenery is destroyed to uncover old crumbling stones from ancient failed cultures.

Beautiful nature scenery around Koh Ker temples Rice field and jungle Date/Time: Fri 16 Oct 2009 12:23:24 PM PHT Rice field and jungle surrounding the temple complex of the Pyramid.

Koh Ker ruins All ruins are well covered by nature growth and tropical trees Date/Time: Fri 16 Oct 2009 12:24:46 PM PHT All ruins are well covered by nature growth and tropical trees. Thus to uncover the ruins a massive nature destruction is needed.

Koh Ker temple - the pyramid The main structure is this crumbling pyramid Date/Time: Fri 16 Oct 2009 12:28:52 PM PHT The main structure is this crumbling temple pyramid - the best preserved piece of Koh Ker temple complex. The entire Koh Ker temple complex is spread over a huge jungle area may be around 100 square kilometers.

Koh Ker pyramid temple picture Crumbling stones and climbing the stairs or wooden ladder is impossible Date/Time: Fri 16 Oct 2009 12:44:52 PM PHT Crumbling stones and climbing the stairs or wooden ladder is impossible. Hence there is no scenic view from top of the step pyramid of Koh Ker into the surrounding beautiful jungle nature.

Koh Ker ruins pictures When an entire culture crumbles and disappears - there is a reason we ought to find Date/Time: Fri 16 Oct 2009 12:46:24 PM PHT When an entire culture crumbles and disappears - there is a reason we ought to find. Crumbling cultures are like our today's economy that survives only a a result of Trillions of dollars emergency help to delay the long time overdue end of a huge mistake endangering our entire planet.

All those cultures who have failed to bring mutual benefits to all without nature destruction and without violation of God's first commandment of love are meant to be dropped and replaced by a more loving culture. To learn there is no need to destroy major parts of nature or jungle. To learn from past mistakes also is possible by looking at the past 50-100 years of our current time filled with ample amounts of substantial mistakes against humanity, nature and thus also against God.
Crumbling nature covered temple ruins are recycled by the healing power of nature and should be left behind.

Koh Ker temple ruin pictures Koh Ker ruins covered by nature growth Date/Time: Fri 16 Oct 2009 12:47:25 PM PHT Koh Ker ruins covered by nature growth. After all the temples are but stone taken from our planet and recovered by our planet's nature and recovering plan.
The only important in life only is the lessons of love we actually learn and accomplish.

To restore temple ruins - jungle is destroyed Massive jungle looting for profit Date/Time: Fri 16 Oct 2009 12:47:53 PM PHT Massive jungle looting for profit. Once no more jungle trees to make profits, the looting goes on to convert stones into more profits - at the expense of nature and all mankind's living environment on this planet.

All Koh Ker temples were under full protection of jungle Nature covered most of the ruins Date/Time: Fri 16 Oct 2009 12:48:39 PM PHT Nature covered most of the ruins. Without substantial investment in efforts and time no temple ruins may be turned into profitable tourist attractions.

Koh Ker nature scenery Beautiful nature waiting to coverup our old mistakes Date/Time: Fri 16 Oct 2009 12:48:51 PM PHT Beautiful nature waiting to cover up our old mistakes and repair our ancient mistakes. A beautiful lush jungle vegetation surrounds most of the Koh Ker temples.

Jungle trees growing inside Koh Ker temples More beautiful and more useful than the stones are nature and trees Date/Time: Fri 16 Oct 2009 12:49:49 PM PHT More beautiful and more useful than the stones are nature and trees growing all over the ruins. No one can eat stones, but we can eat from the fruits of nature! That fact alone makes nature infinitely more important and more valuable to all mankind than any temple or temple ruins from any era or culture.

Rice field adjacent to Koh Ker temple As mankind's ego shrinks - natures productivity in our favor grows Date/Time: Fri 16 Oct 2009 12:50:22 PM PHT As mankind's ego shrinks - natures productivity in our favor grows. Instead of imposing our building and ego onto nature, we should learn to let nature grow and integrate ourselves into nature to achieve greatest blessings from nature.

Koh Ker - part of Angkor temples complex Angkor temples spread over hundreds of sqkms Date/Time: Fri 16 Oct 2009 12:50:50 PM PHT Angkor temples spread over hundreds of square kilometers. Koh Ker is part of the Angkor temples, however had its own time for a while during the 10th century AC.

My preferred temple lake at Koh Ker One of the most beautiful temple lakes among all Angkor temples Date/Time: Fri 16 Oct 2009 12:51:44 PM PHT One of the most beautiful temple lakes among all Angkor temples is this lake at Koh Ker temple. Beautiful nature and jungle trees mirroring in the flat calm temple lake water.

Temple lake Koh Ker - Angkor Beautiful jungle around Koh Ker temple lake Date/Time: Fri 16 Oct 2009 12:55:44 PM PHT Beautiful jungle around Koh Ker temple lake mirrors in the still water of the lake. Some fish stir up the water now and then. Without mankind's influence nature would be like a true paradise on earth. When mankind has learned to be peaceful and loving again, then peace and love will prevail and doors to our home may open again.

This picture is the last for now from Koh Ker temple complex. More nature sceneries from Cambodia are ready to follow.

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