The Giant Puppet Parade

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 🙂

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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.