Now I am coming back home down 163, parallel to 143 which was where the other pics were taken just so you get a variety. This interesting set of construction has been going, & growing, for weeks - no I can't imagine either. Think it is just part of the whole anti - pedestrian strategy.
Typical set up of some sort of business underneath family homes & a Mum taking her kids home from school.
You usually see this sort of thing being precariously balanced in one hand from a moto & often it is several rigid poles. I am waiting to see what happens when one of them wants to turn a corner.
Yes... that's more like it.
...and how nice that people kindly take their furniture out for a spin
Now... this was interesting.. for some days prior to this, whoever passes as the clerk of works in PP had commissioned an interesting eco - art work in the middle of 163, firstly excavating a representation of the Grand Canyon, & then a few days later recreating the Sahara; great swathes of golden sand appeared one morning, making the the commute just that little bit more of a challenge. We were then treated to the foot hills of Everest. At present it is like the great dusty plains of the American west. What next? Niagara Falls perhaps?
One of the many expert baby moto drivers in the city. My personal favourite was the Dad with a baby under one arm, driving, Mum cuddling another littler one in both arms on the back, with 2 small toddlers squeezed between them. I suppose they would break your fall.
My friend Sokha's (our finance officer at work) mum's hairdressing salon/snackshop/newsagent.
He has now moved into his own house with wife & baby, but until then he would regularly 'happen' to pull up beside me & beg me with the most soulful look to get on the back of his moto to ride to work. It is totally beyond the comprehension of the Khmers why anyone would walk along the streets in the sun etc etc unless they were destitute/a monk/mental. Actually, they have a point.
He has now moved into his own house with wife & baby, but until then he would regularly 'happen' to pull up beside me & beg me with the most soulful look to get on the back of his moto to ride to work. It is totally beyond the comprehension of the Khmers why anyone would walk along the streets in the sun etc etc unless they were destitute/a monk/mental. Actually, they have a point.
Ahh... the life blood of the city, the noisy, smelly old generators that we all love to hate, bless them
I turn right here if I want to get fruit & veg at the market on the way home (5 min from home). Please note excellent example of the superb traffic system; I call it Consensual Anarchy - no rules but as long as everyone plays by them it's ok. The motos turning right on the corner are on the 'right' side of the road & so are the ones coming round it from the left, as, if you are coming down a road in between junctions (especially one of the wide main ones) you would never get over to the right-hand side & back in time to turn left. ... Oh DO keep up! ... As there are usually 2 main lanes on each side of the road with another line for the 'hard shoulder' where bicycles & the stuff coming in the opposite direction tend to be, and of course, you can fit 2 or 3 motos or bikes in the space for one car ... you can imagine that you can have anything up to 16 'lanes' of traffic to negotiate should you be foolhardy enough to actually try to cross the road. I live on one side of Mao Tse Tung & the office is a mile or so on the other.
Kids going home from the school in the wat
and another one of those baby drivers
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