🤳 Downtown Shots From Pramaoy's "Main Street" 🚜 🏍️
@sreypov and I recently took a trip to Pramaoy to drop off a steel door for modification, withdraw some money from the ATM machine, and a few other errands.
Highway Shots 🛣️
I found myself in the tuk-tuk for about 10 minutes, and while doing some people watching I thought it would be a good idea to document it. The things that drive past you in Cambodia are a little different than sights you might see in other countries. I already mentioned thay my PC died, and Srey-Yuu's laptop is too weak for video editing, but I have some slo-mo shots of the bikes going by that are really cool.
I like that cars are the minority on roads in most places around Cambodia, with small motorcycles and bicycles being the most common site. People-watching is much more interesting when the general public aren't behind tinted glass and windscreens, plus I like how each bike, driver, passenger(s) and goods are different.
I was having fun trying to time the shots by watching in my peripheral vision for a moto to come speeding by. I had a success rate of about 50%, but the pics would've been better if I'd had my digital camera with me. Either way it was fun taking pics and slo-mo videos of the motos passing by, and the rainboots make a nice background.
Maybe the guy in the above photo bought his rainboots from the seller in the background, and/or perhaps he was regretting having chosen orange, because those sky-blue boots are absolutely on fire 🔥!!
Tractors Too 🚜
In rural Cambodian towns, tractors are almost as common on the highways as cars, and even quite normal in downtown Pramaoy. Some kind of sunshade is necessary for long days in an open cab. The cost of a tractor is beyond the reach of many people, so these are basically the Bentleys of rural Cambodia.
This guy wearing the flat (had to google hat types to learn that) caught my attention. I always associate this kind of hat with artistic types in the USA, and it also has a 1920s paperboy style as well. Either way, this guy gets some style points for his unique choice of headgear.
Trailers are attached to just about anything here in Cambodia, from hand tractors to motorcycles and just about anything that moves. The young guy in the above shot is busy enjoying life, but it's just as common to see two or three people in the trailer having a nap on the way back home from a hard day's work.
I had a blast just holding the phone in one location and watching the scenery change with each click. This was early evening, so most people were tired at had a stoic look on their face. My family and I weren't feeling much different, we still had a one-hour drive back to Steung Kach ahead of us.
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I'm amazed with the motorbike with an extension. The market in your place is the same here in the Philippines.
The trailers are very creative here, and usually it consists of the passenger manually holding the trailer handles or sitting on top of the bar to keep it attached to the moto. It is so dangerous, but it's normal here, and most drivers wear flip-flops while driving motos on the highways, a good recipe for missing toes.
Ohh just wow...creative indeed.
you always have great ideas, going to the market can be a post, while waiting for your wife to shop you aim for some motorbikes and tractors,, that's a great idea
There are so many interesting forms of transport that go by, and even after all these years here, I still enjoy watching traffic in a random town.
Tractors are also a common sight in District Nickerie, the weset of Suriname, because of most rice farmers.
I can also imagine why most go for a motorbike, instead of a car: cheaper, less gasoline and maybe more flexible traveling rural areas.
Tractors like the one in the photo are very rare in Cambodia, because for the rice fields here most people use hand tractors or do it with a water buffalo, or for the very poor, still by hand. Where we are in the mountains is a a lot of fruit and veg farms, so the tractors are better suited for all these out of water tasks. Cars are getting more and more common, especially this new generation of tiny Indian car imports.
Reblog your posting dear sir
Mr @justinparke , from the capital city of Phnom Penh to Pramaoy. how many km is it?whether Pramaoy is one of the cities at the end of Cambodia.
At least 300km to the capital, but now we are even further here in Steung Kack, probably 360km to the the capital, a full day's drive in the tuk-tuk. Thmor Da is near us, but it's a very small and expensive town on the Thai border, nothing there but Chinese construction projects and overpriced real estate.
You have shown the atmosphere in Paramoy City which is reminiscent of our city here, with almost the same circumstances.
I think a lot of motos and mountains in your area too, and a lot of small shops. I think only maybe 2,000 people live in Pramaoy city.
Nice to know about vehicles in Cambodia.
Thank you, the roads here are always an interesting site.
I love your thought processes for a photo opportunity. So SreyPov has bright orange boots, you guys can be all colours of the rainbow with you willies.
My boots are boring plain black, but I am lucky to find shoes in my size at all here. Now we've all got snake/rain boots, and I've fallen with my new shoes of shame, the fake CROCS.
Yay! 🤗
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Beautiful
I like the rainboot scene. And particularly like the color they have 🤣 It has always reminds me of the Singapore standup show where the rainboots dance take place.
And it seemed like no more masks nowadays heh
Haha, very manly colors. Because my feet are monster-sized I can only get rainboots in black unfortunately, at least around this area anyways. Cambodia lifted the public mask mandate a few months ago, and it is starting to feel a bit like the good ole' days.