Travels in Takeo

Hot on the heels of the holiday with my parents and sister, I headed off on a weekend break to Takeo province with three VSO friends.

The Cambodian festival of Pchum Ben is on at the moment, and our visits to Takeo’s temples gave us an insight into this celebration of ancestors. Local people take it in turns each day to prepare food for the monks which they then lay out in the pagoda.

One of the temples we went to see is only accessible by boat during the wet season. We got stranded on the temple island in a huge thunderstorm with darkness quickly falling, but eventually bit the bullet and sped back to the distant town in pouring rain, nearly black sky and into the remains of a gorgeous sunset. Exhilarating but damp.