photographie-irie > Rural Home and Children near Beng Melea, Cambodia               

More smiling young faces looking at the alien taking pictures. Rural homes are elevated on stilts as protection from extensive flooding that occurs with each long rainy season as waters from the Himalayas tumble down the Mekong, dramatically changing the landscape into huge lake or seascape each year.
photographie-irie > Girl in Route to Beng Melea, Cambodia          

I saw this girl see me along the way to Beng Melea, three hours from Siem Reap by slow tuk-tuk. Once out in the country, extremely friendly but often wary children view travelers as if alien, but often still with a smile. Beng Melea is another very overgrown distant monument complex yet to be restored. It was nearby that I was cautioned not to enter another temple area closed to tourists because of mine danger, where local Cambodians were in stark contrast free to wander.
Rural Home and Children near Beng Melea, Cambodia     

More smiling young faces looking at the alien taking pictures. Rural homes are elevated on stilts as protection from extensive flooding that occurs with each long rainy season as waters from the Himalayas tumble down the Mekong, dramatically changing the landscape into huge lake or seascape each year.
photographie-irie > Rural Home and Children near Beng Melea, Cambodia               

More smiling young faces looking at the alien taking pictures. Rural homes are elevated on stilts as protection from extensive flooding that occurs with each long rainy season as waters from the Himalayas tumble down the Mekong, dramatically changing the landscape into huge lake or seascape each year.
Rural Home and Children near Beng Melea, Cambodia     

More smiling young faces looking at the alien taking pictures. Rural homes are elevated on stilts as protection from extensive flooding that occurs with each long rainy season as waters from the Himalayas tumble down the Mekong, dramatically changing the landscape into huge lake or seascape each year.
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