Phnom Penh in the Chinese New Year

Asia • Cambodia

Today is the third day of the Chinese New Year celebrations in Cambodia. For us, it means that the number of tourists from around the world and from Cambodia makes it difficult to get around the city.

In the evening, we wet to the riverside to watch the restaurants full of tourists and photograph some attractive looking, illuminated hotels, restored from the colonial times.

But first, we looked at the sacrifice ritual on the Wat Phnom hill, which is the heart of the city, because it was founded here in the fourteenth century.

The temple on this hill is "managed" by monks - shamans who probably have little in common with Buddhism.

Here, animism is closely connected with Hinduism and Buddhism. Full religious syncretism!

 

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