Siem Reap, Cambodia (Floating Village & Golden Silk Pheach)
Siem Reap, Cambodge
French Je me suis toujours sentie émotionnellement plus attachée au Cambodge qu’au Vietnam pour certaines raisons. Je souhaite le Cambodge puisse rester pur khmer et non pas devenir un Disney Land fabriqué de toutes pièces par des étrangers.
Nos valeurs sont polluées, nous leur faisons un cadeau empoisonné en leur enseignant notre façon de vivre. Je préfère vivre avec rien du tout et voir mes enfants rire en jouant dans la nature.
Le Cambodge appartient aux Khmers, nous pouvons essayer de les aider, mais nous devrions éviter de leur dire ce qu’ils doivent faire, parce qu’ils savent ce qu’ils ont a faire.
Visiting a floating Village with ethnic Vietnameses established
on one of the biggest fresh water lacs in the world
See the snakes? and the little girl eating her afternoon snack while paddling in her giant tin basket?
My parents
I always felt more emotionally attached to Cambodia than I did to Vietnam for some reasons. I wish it could remain pure Khmer and not a Disney Land made up by foreigners.
Our value are polluted it is a poisoned gift to teach them how we live our lives. I rather live with nothing at all and have my children laughing while playing in nature.
Cambodia belong to the Khmer, we can try to help them,but we should stay away from telling them what to do, because they now better.
The crocodile farm
The Christian Church (Vietnamese)
The drugstore / supermarket
Actually, somebody posted a video of the village here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZkcBUqEHr4
GOLDEN SILK Pheach
The machinery is hand made on sight!
The work of each creating can take up to a year or more.
Un enfant qui dort… a baby asleep unedr a neat
With my Mother…. It must be over 40 degrees celcius, I am used to it but she doesn’t….
She looks like a living doll!
Pheach
Une amie a monte un concept majestueux afin d’aider …des familles défavorisées. Elle est Khmer, elle s’appelle Pheach et elle a crée Golden Silk pour faire travailler des femmes. Elle est aussi appellée Maman par les orphelins qu’elle a dans le temps recueillis des camps de réfugiés qu’elle fait encore vivre des années plus tard. C’est une femme forte, intelligente, spirituelle et elle aime son peuple. Respects!
The silk in Cambodia is the color of gold. In other countries is is usually white.
My Father experiencing tissage!
See the baby slwwping in an Hamac behind his Mother?
Pheach’s family (her Father is standing in the back)
Pheach’s Father’s Art (Building men to rebuilt the country)
The natural dying process of the silk from fruit extracts to leaves or animal excrements, amazing! The entire process is 100% natural.
Pheach and her husband Patrick. She is Khmer and he is French, they met during Cambodia’s brutal Khmer Rouge regime.
The Khmer Rouge was the ruling party in Cambodia from 1975 to 1979, but during this short time it was responsible for one of the worst mass killings of the 20th Century.
The brutal regime claimed the lives of more than a million people – and some estimates say up to 2.5 million perished.
Under the Marxist leader Pol Pot, the Khmer Rouge tried to take Cambodia back to the Middle Ages, forcing millions of people from the cities to work on communal farms in the countryside.
But this dramatic attempt at social engineering had a terrible cost, and whole families died from execution, starvation, disease and overwork.
Some of the magnificient art at the shop
You must visit the factory, it is a must see. It is a pure experience of Cambodia.
The prices ranged from $50 for a basic scarf, to $1,200 for an elegant wrap.
I fell in love with a yellow scarf that I bought for my husband and bought a few items for my family.
The higehst price goes as much as $15,000 for an elaborate large wrap, which is a museum piece for connaisseurs!
