Battambang photos, 2008

During our caving expedition in June 2008, we stayed in Battambang in northwest Cambodia. Battambang is actually Cambodia's 2nd largest city, but it is a quiet laid back place, with no real high rise buildings, no shopping centres - in fact not even any small supermarkets. The old colonial architecture dates back to the French period. This is the museum -

 river front shops

 restoration

 charcoal stove in an old oven

 Riverside Balcony Bar

market

 using seed pods for decoration

MAG truck

 White Rose

 election time

my home for 15 nights

 Gecko Cafe

 Not sure what this is

 election campaigning

 Against family violence

 recycling

 bus back to Phnom Penh

 jars for sale

 election obvservers

Battambang town has seen little change since my visit in 2004. Even then there was an abundance of handphone shops. I did see that the grocers and small minimart are no longer there in 2008.
Ad for the bakers -

I've posted the caving and rural scenes in separate albums.
7 albums on caves, Caves 1 phnom sampeu and Caves 2 sdao area and Caves 3 crocodile hill area and Caves 4 kampong poi area and Caves 5 phnom kdaongand Caves 6 Banan area and Caves 7 kpg poi lake area and also Cambodian cave fauna.

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