Baht, Dollars, why is nobody keeping it Riel?

Alex wrote: ↑Fri Jul 10, 2020 8:36 pm Baht, Dollars, why is nobody keeping it Riel?

It's bad luck to be Keeping it Riel.

Phnom Poon wrote: ↑Fri Jul 10, 2020 8:14 pm why would a scammer claim to be an illegal logger?
nice timber background in her photo

Maybe because there is huge money to be had in logging? A square meter of some woods can cost $10,000+. The door behind her is nothing special. I've been in some houses (not many) where the whole place is paneled from floor to ceiling with carvings made from precious wood. Then the stairs are made out of huge pieces of lumber and there are huge wooden statues and those giant vase things. Sometimes it's made of this very expensive knotted and mottled wood.

Even though the carving is done well it has this overall look of the Queen's lair from Alien. It's often badly fitted too with gaps and edges that don't meet. It makes me feel sad to think that so many magnificent trees and forests have gone into making some gauche interiors for concrete villas that will probably be replaced as soon as the owner gets bored.

This country needs to diversify the tourist industry, temples are great but unspoiled rain forests have huge potential too if they could be preserved. I don't really get these "eco resorts" where they carve the whole natural environment to pieces, level it and then put in a few potted plants.

There is nothing more to this, move along now please.