Housing on the water surface of the Tonlé Sap
le Pont Vieux à limoux
Crossing the Krishna
et coquette, festonnée....la LOIRE
Kids at the broken bridge
épousailles éphémères de l'eau et du feu
quand les voix se sont tues ( à Solesmes)
petit matin 180
On est vivant tant qu'on est fort On a la foi quan…
Lisboa, thunderstorm over the Bridge Vasco da Gama…
Le pont Alexandre III
Bridge over Kherlen Gol
Bastei/ Sächsische Schweiz
crossing the river
Lisboa, thunderstorm over the Bridge Vasco da Gama…
Farmhouse at the Paro riverside
Punakha Dzong in the sunset light
MAROC TERRES BERBERES
spring
Oeiras, Municipal Garden, Ribeira da Laje - small…
Good morning, Ipernity!
Der Rhein staubt
Floating home of Vietnamese fisher
Find your way through the slobber
Along the Tonlé Sap
Wolfsburg an der Autostadt
the little waterfall
Le pont de la Fausse Monnaie
Boot im Altwasser
Abendstimmung am Main
Marktbreit: Maintor und Rathaus
Lisboa, Park of Monsanto, Amphitheatre Keil do Ama…
Photo 159
Sunrise over the Mekong near Pak Lay
First aid
Hamburg, Landungsbrücken
Männerspielzeug
De Waal
De Waal
Crossing the Serpentine
Crane in the night
Hausboot / Houseboat
Wasserflugzeug / Aeroplane
Limoux le soir
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Holy Riverbed Carvings at Phnom Kulen
Outside Banteay Srei, a two hours walk through the jungle, there is Phnom Kulen.
There are numerous of lingas (phalluses) in the waterbed, though not found in as much quantity as in Kbal Spean, the River of 1,000 Lingas. In the Hindu tradition, water flowing over the lingas is sacred and holy, and many Cambodians bottle the water from the downriver waterfalls. In ancient times, these waters, potent with fertility, filled the barays and irrigated the rice fields.
Phnom Kulen was used as the final stronghold of the Khmer Rouge regime and before the construction of a private toll road, was relatively inaccessible or slow going, depending on weather conditions. Even now, tourists are warned not to wander off beaten tracks for fear of hidden mines. Some question that the locals are protecting the sanctity of this spot as thousands of Cambodians visit every year without incident.
There are numerous of lingas (phalluses) in the waterbed, though not found in as much quantity as in Kbal Spean, the River of 1,000 Lingas. In the Hindu tradition, water flowing over the lingas is sacred and holy, and many Cambodians bottle the water from the downriver waterfalls. In ancient times, these waters, potent with fertility, filled the barays and irrigated the rice fields.
Phnom Kulen was used as the final stronghold of the Khmer Rouge regime and before the construction of a private toll road, was relatively inaccessible or slow going, depending on weather conditions. Even now, tourists are warned not to wander off beaten tracks for fear of hidden mines. Some question that the locals are protecting the sanctity of this spot as thousands of Cambodians visit every year without incident.
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