After the hustle and bustle of the Water Festival things have returned to normal this week.It's been remarkably quiet actually and as there is nothing to report I will keep it brief.
I am looking forward to Cambodia's first ever rock opera entitled "Where Elephants Weep" which is happening next week at the Chenla Theatre and providing I can get a ticket will give my thoughts.There is also a large photography exhibition happening next week with some huge installations being shown at an outdoor location near a pagoda,so that could be rather spectacular.
I went to the Reyum Gallery yesterday to see an exhibition of photos taken by a Swedish man called Gunnar Bergstrom in 1978 during the Khmer Rouge.He was one of the few foreigners to gain access into the country and was duped by them into believing that they were for the greater good.Below the photos he gives his thoughts as written then and now,upon his first time back since then and the man even had lunch with Pol Pot.It really shows you how empty Phnom Penh was,and is quite eye opening even if you have seen similar photography before.
That's it.I have a lunch date.