Apr 272013
Oops! While going through my photos of Life in Siem Reap, I somehow completely overlooked the one and only “event” during my stay: a big street parade showing off huge paper-mache puppets, constructed by hundreds of children from local schools, orphanages, and NGOs.
Here are a few quick pics before I move on to Battambang 🙂
- Despite being such a small town, Siem Reap can get surp...
- …But this weekend, with the Giant Puppet Parade, was so...
- The streets were teeming with energy, as locals and for...
- These light- and sound- bearing “floats” were paraded a...
- They were accompanied by live music…
- …song…
- …And even some Giant Puppet-style dancing :)
- Although I usually plan my travels around events such a...
- It provided a great little distraction from a full week...
- I followed the parade for a good hour or so…
- Until it ended in the park with a live song-and-dance p...
- And now I can move on to blogging about Battambang :)
Note: These posts are behind realtime; the above took place in February, 2012.
Wow….those look cool. What good luck to be able to check this out
Yeah, I definitely never made anything that big/hi-tech when I was in grade school 😉
Cool! 🙂