School in Seam Reap

During my visit to Cambodia, I have visited a primary school near the hotel that we stayed. The condition of school is really bad. There is no electricity supply so the students have to study in the dark during rainy day. There is no proper canteen too. We only found a few ugly stalls and a few benches there. If it is raining, then there is no place for the students to eat. There is no grass or any tar road in the school so it is very dusty. Many of them also don't have proper school shoes. They just wear slippers. For those who wear slippers, they must take off the shoes before going into the classroom. The most interesting thing is one of the teacher brought his baby along when teaching.







The ugly stall (canteen)























The food found in the canteen






















assembly











































The table and bench of the canteen






















Ice cream seller





















The road condition during the school dismissed





















The food in canteen





















The school building




















The students on duty





















The condition of the class






















See the students' leg (slipper)













































recess time

Tonle Sap

Tonle Sap is the biggest fresh water lake in Cambodia and Asia. It is about 215km in length and start from Seam Reap Province to Phnom Penh. There are many people stay on this lake and many of them are fisherman. They stays on their boat and do everything on it. As there is no water supply, the people here use the water from the lake to cook, bathe and wash. The school is also located on the boat. For the food supply, they even have floating market such as groceries boat and vegetables boat. Many of them have to stay in dark after sunset as there is no electricity supply too. For the rich one, they have generator but for the poor one they have to depend on candles. The lake is quite busy because there are many tourist boat visit the floating village. According to the tourist guide the depth of the lake is about 15m in wet session.


















The floating groceries shop






















The transportation





















The resident























What is this?

Fishing boat

Tourist boat

House or boat?

Groceries boat

chatting to each other

Sunset

Jetty

Tabai, Thailand

Tabai is a small town at the border of Pengkalan Kubur, Kelantan (Malaysia) and Thailand. The border is separated by Golok River. To go there from Pengkalan Kubur, one must takes a ferry. It costs only one ringgit per trip and the journey is only about 2 minutes. We are surprised to find that there is no immigration office at the Thai border and you are allowed to enter the country without any document. But, for the Malaysia side you must provide the passport at the jetty.

For me, it is not an interesting trip because there is really nothing to see at Tabai. There is a market there and many hawker stalls. All the goods sell there are actually the same with what we can find in Pengkalan Kubur and the price is no different too. The weather there is really hot as there are only a few trees can be found there. We use only half an hour to walk there and buy nothing.



Tabai town from Pengkalan Kubur






















Jetty of Pengkalan Kubur from Tabai






















Jetty of Tabai

The dirty sheep in Tabai

Motorcycle with many headlamps in Tabai

Petrol Kiosk for Motorcycle
























Ferry to Tabai




















Ferry for vehicles





















Ice cracker






















Boarding ferry




















Departure

Panorama Hill

Panorama Hill is located in Sungai Lembing, Pahang. It is a hill that located just in the town of Sungai Lembing. The trail to the summit is full of staircases. For regular hikers, they can reach the summit just in about 20 minutes but for who are non regular then they may take up to 45 minutes. Actually there are nothing to see along the way. For those who like to take photographs, then it is a nice place for them.
From the summit, we can see the town of Sungai Lembing. You are encourage to hike the hill as early as six o'clock in the morning so that you can see the mist and sunrise. It is the most suitable time for the photographers to snap the photos. After the sunrise, you will feel that it has nothing to see.





Note: All photos supplied by Forest Ang