Phnom Penh Prepares for the Water Festival.

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one sad note was that the folks sitting along the banks would just drop what ever trash they had (bags, cans, plastic bottles) and it just rolled down into the river.
no so much pride I guess. there are some trash bins along the walk, but they had trash piled up all around them.

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Bertros wrote:one sad note was that the folks sitting along the backs would just drop what ever trash they had (bags, cans, plastic bottles) and it just rolled down into the river.
no so much pride I guess. there are some trash bins along the walk, but they had trash piled up all around them.

cheers


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Last year I arrived in Temple Town the morning after the end of the water festival and the place was utterly trashed. Long way to go...
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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.
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Exactly what I thought. That's a very thin crowd compared to what it was 6-10 years ago. It was like Notting Hill Carnival, you could barely cross the street.

Yep, a lot less people on the main riverside compared to 8-- 10 years ago, but maybe it's because they are spread out over a wider area now.
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