Cambodia-Day 3

Still here at Praksantai. We wake up early as we want to go shopping at their market. They use riel as their currency which most of us do not have. We only have USD which is used in big town like Phnom Penh. In village like Praksantai, they use riel.I was very excited to see ‘baby sengkuang’ was sold here and decided to bought it and bring it home. Instead of that, just looking around what they sold.


Then, we went to “New Village”. I not remembered the village name in khmer language. We ride a lorry to go there. It’s not so far actually from this village but the route was so snaking. It was known as new village as this is a new area/territory for them to live. Only a few houses there and another a few still under construction. We were invited to see korban there.Then, lunch with them; nasi putih with daging masak kicap. However, as one of my group is Chinese who do not eat meat, she get special treat from them; egg and vegetables. So together we share her food as we also miss to eat egg. Hehehehe… After lunch we get back to Praksantai village as men want to go for Solat Jumaat.

As nothing much to do in the afternoon, me, Elly, Kak Rin and Hakim take a walk around the village. Luckily, there is wedding ceremony in one of the houses there. We just join with the rest of guest there and take picture with the bride and bridegroom. Here we met Nawal. She very fluent in Malay language and we very excited talk to her. We go to her house then and met another brides there.

As usual, dinner at Hakim’s house. Mama, Alang, K.Ani and Ita had cook deliciously nasi lemak for Hakim’s family and a few peoples who had been invited by Abah. All of them never eat nasi lemak before and the aroma of nasi lemak makes everyone hungry including me.

At that night, there are about ten people get married in the village. We were informed to wear a beautiful dress to go to those wedding ceremonies. We end up by going to six houses only because we were too tired too walk more. Those brides seriously beautiful and totally different from what we imagine. They look so famous and glamorous!






Here, girls are married at the early age as 17 years old. The wedding ceremonies for brides were held separately with the bridegroom. Men are going to bridegroom house and women going to brides house. They also have such daise like us but more simple and use a little bit creativity to make it look stunning.

Then, going back home to Sarah house. There are many people there and we joined them lepak-lepak. Have a chat with them. It is very wonderful night because we are keep laughing with them, although we don’t know what they said and pretty sure that they also not understand us. We learn their language and also do them. Faezah quite good in English; she help us translate words in khmer language.