should make for an nice evening along the river during the next couple of nights along with the festivities.

http://www.accuweather.com/en/features/ ... e/61325802

Just before the largest supermoon in nearly 70 years rises early on Nov. 14, onlookers will have a stunning visual in the November night sky.


moon rice in PP 4:36 pm.

sun set 5:33 pm.

cheers

Bertros

Potential customers to flood in for Water Festival
Thu, 10 November 2016
Cheng Sokhorng

Business are gearing up for the annual Water Festival, hoping to maximise their advertising exposure with campaigns and events aimed at the 2 million visitors expected to descend on the capital’s riverside area for the three-day event that starts on Sunday.

Mean Chanyada, spokesman for Phnom Penh City Hall, said five locations are being prepared for concerts and entertainment during the Water Festival. The government will organise events at some of these locations, while others will be arranged by the private sector, including Hong Meas, Bayon, Ganzberg and Leo.

This year will see a full-scale celebration in Phnom Penh, offering businesses a prime opportunity for sales and advertising. However, profits have not always come easy.

Khieu Cany, chairman of PTG International Co Ltd, which provides space for companies to exhibit during the festival, said the event has often fallen short of expectation. He said his company lost money during the 2014 festival, and opted out of the 2015 celebrations after the boat races were cancelled.

“We experienced losses during previous years because of a shortage of visitors and difficulty renting out our booths,” he said. Cany said PTG was ready “to take a chance again” for this year’s event, and has sunk nearly $40,000 into preparations. The company plans to erect between 50 and 100 vendor booths near one of the key entertainment venues in Wat Bottom Park.

“This is our last chance to try this event. If we get a negative result, we’ll give up next year,” Cany said.

Yet so far, the response has been promising.

A total of 50 booths have already been booked, while Cambrew, the producer of Angkor beer, has rented nearly a third of the space for events...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/p ... r-festival

Tourism of Cambodia website explains the meaning of Cambodia's Water Festival in English - enjoy:

Water and Moon Festival and Boat Racing
Date: 13th November 2016

For the people of Cambodia, the Water Festival and Bon Om Touk (The Pirogue Racing Festival) in Phnom Penh is the most magnificent traditional festival. For three days Phnom Penh citizens, foreign tourists and peasants from various provinces gather in the capital to celebrate festival night day.

The water festival had background for so long time. The water festival ceremony is the army training to do attest of the army for preparing to do a battle. In the history, Khmer King always does the battle with enemies by sailing. So he prepares this water festival ceremony every year to choose Champion of sailing battle, as in Bayon Temple, Batteay Chhmar in the Preah Bat Jayvarman VII. We had seen a lot of statues about sailing battle under leading of Jayvarman VII. The custom of this is to have from then up to the present...

http://www.tourismcambodia.com/tripplan ... stival.htm

The "photo gallery" from the site is not very good, anyone have better photos of previous Water Festivals ?
http://www.tourismcambodia.com/gallery/ ... oat-racing

there's a freaking shload of folks down there today.

maybe you went to a diff river.

and yes...I've got pic's.

cheers

Bertros

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Bertros wrote:there's a freaking shload of folks down there today.

maybe you went to a diff river.

That's not a shload!
Back in the day, there would be no cars along that stretch of road. The road would be shoulder to shoulder chockablock full of people. You couldn't just walk freely wherever you wanted to go, you had no choice but to go with the flow of people.

Image from 5 minutes ago.


The ghosts of Diamond Island are telling them to stay away!

Seems to be twice as many people as there was a couple of hours ago on that cam.

Bertros wrote:there's a freaking shload of folks down there today.

maybe you went to a diff river.

and yes...I've got pic's.

cheers

Bertros

Pics then Betros please. You can be our man on the ground. Updates on all the exciting events etc.