Apr 192013
After reading everything I could get my hands on at the Cambodian Landmine Museum – a stop that was both heartwrenching and heartwarming – my driver and I continued down the main road to the last of the “far-away destinations” I’d elected to see: Kbal Spean, the River of a Thousand Lingas…
- Kbal Spean was yet another change of pace from the ruin...
- …leads up a gentle hill…
- …through a pleasant forest…
- …and to a river with an intricately carved riverbed.
- (or at least, it’s a riverbed during the wet season ;))
- So why is it called the ‘River of a Thousand Lingas?’ ...
- Not unlike much of my tourism thus far, the most intere...
- A group of butterflies lined up to drink from the river...
- Here’s a behind-the-scenes shot from the photos above :...
- The hike itself was also arguably more worthwhile than ...
- A cute little puppy who snuck up and surprised me with ...
- Mmmm, salty!
Note: These posts are behind realtime; the above took place in March, 2012.
“Mmm, salty!” cute puppy! I bet you wanted to keep him!
Who took the pics of you? The driver?
I think the riverbed was awesome.
It peaked my interest enough to do a Google search to find out why they would carve all those knobs, I found on Wiki that they possibly represent Shiva Lingam. Shiva Lingam has been interpreted as a symbol representation Formless, Universe Bearer & a Complete One, the oval shaped stone is resembling mark of the Universe and bottom base as the Supreme Power holding the entire Universe in it. – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingam
Does that sound right, Justin? Either way, the whole riverbed looks like alligator skin now! Really cool!
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>>Who took the pics of you? The driver?
No, there were a few Cambodian hikers so I just grabbed one of them.
>>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingam
Interesting! I did read a little bit of this in my guidebook while there, but not nearly as much detail as Wiki.
>>Does that sound right, Justin?
Haha well, your research is as good as mine 😉
>>Another interesting post! STOKED on the new content and post format!
Glad to hear it! 🙂
cute doggy
Majorly. He kinda reminded me of this guy 🙂
Awesome river carvings. Eww to the puppy (you knew that was coming) 😛
But he was cute, so it’s ok.