Cambodia: ethnic culture.

A few miles down the road from the Yaklom Hill Lodge [see next post] is a village that particularly markets itself to tourists. When you turn off the road, there's a sign that says "Ethnic culture – 3 km." As though the rest of the country weren't already "ethnic culture" for people like us.

Even though they want tourists, it felt strange and a little invasive to walk around and take pictures of people going about their daily tasks. It's not exactly some Disney Epcot village – it's still just regular people living their lives.

Using bicycle tires to work yarn.

Since I didn't feel comfortable taking too many pictures of the people, I took some of adorable baby animals.

One of the buildings was a little shop where villagers could bring their scarves to sell to whatever tourists come by. When they see that some have arrived, they all come over to watch and hope that their scarves sell – and, in this case, dress us up.

In the scarf building – the guy on the left gave us an impromptu little recital on whatever instrument that is.