Cambodia New Year

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Cambodia New Year

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Is this a period of celebration for 3 days, about to wrap up on Friday?

What are some of the main activities and events for the holiday?

It seems that absolutly everything shuts down, including the US Embassy.
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ColoradoVacation wrote:Is this a period of celebration for 3 days, about to wrap up on Friday?

What are some of the main activities and events for the holiday?

It seems that absolutly everything shuts down, including the US Embassy.


CEO Forum will not be shutting down over KNY, so everything is under control.
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ColoradoVacation wrote:Is this a period of celebration for 3 days, about to wrap up on Friday?

What are some of the main activities and events for the holiday?

It seems that absolutly everything shuts down, including the US Embassy.
It's the biggest holiday in the Thai, Khmer, Lao and Myanmar calendar - it's like Christmas in much of the West and yes, everything of any real importance shuts down for it. Normal service, sort of, will be resumed on Monday but expect huge amounts of queuing to be done in embassies/consulates as a week's worth of backlog arrives to get things done.

Water splashing (and sometimes flour throwing) is what the holiday is about. There are often things happening on temple grounds too. (That is modern working temples not ancient ones - though Angkor Wat often has a big celebration around it too).
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It is.standard procedure for any embassy to.honor the holidays of both
the host country as well as their own. For one thing local Khmer embassy employees would be quite upset if they were denied the most important holiday in.their country
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ColoradoVacation wrote:Is this a period of celebration for 3 days, about to wrap up on Friday?

What are some of the main activities and events for the holiday?

It seems that absolutly everything shuts down, including the US Embassy.
1. Yes.

2. Getting drunk, getting flour thrown at you, avoiding drunk drivers, avoiding drunk drivers throwing flour at you.

3. Yes. The countryside is about 1000% more busy than usual though.
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^^ Incorrect.

This year there are 4 days for KNY. Tomorrow is a holiday as well.
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Username Taken wrote:^^ Incorrect.

This year there are 4 days for KNY. Tomorrow is a holiday as well.
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Kuroneko wrote:
Username Taken wrote:^^ Incorrect.

This year there are 4 days for KNY. Tomorrow is a holiday as well.
[img]http://merkur.workupload.com/image/CjeEm8g[/img]
That would be 1 and a half of official holiday + Sunday.
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^^ You need to learn to read Khmer. Read the Prakas!
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kiwiincambodia wrote:
Kuroneko wrote:
Username Taken wrote:^^ Incorrect.

This year there are 4 days for KNY. Tomorrow is a holiday as well.
[img]http://merkur.workupload.com/image/CjeEm8g[/img]
That would be 1 and a half of official holiday + Sunday.
Exactly, one and a half official and one unofficial. Two and a half days holiday to go and even Monday might be a bit sus :D
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