Monday, May 4, 2009

Cambodia - Signs











A couple fun signs we saw around town.  I was so tempted to try and walk off with the 'no touching' sign.  

Question: once you've filtered your water with Japanese (Japanese, for goodness sake!) technology, why do you have to keep it away from light?

Speaking of Japanese, the odd sign on the shed was one outside of Angkor Wat, where the Japanese have helpfully been restoring (quite well) the walkway across the river.  Seeing both sides of the walkway, I wouldn't be surprise if the Angkors themselves preferred the restored side - the stones seemed to fit even better than they originally did, and were about as level as is humanly possible.  Anyhow, our guess is that this sign is a motivational notice for the Japanese restorers. 

Interesting that all you need to signal internet services is some browser logos.  Very effective - ittranslates across linguistic lines, and given that we heard French, English, German, Cambodian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Thai, Japanese, Italian, Australian English (trust me, it's more than a dialect), Korean, and Russian during our time there - such brand logos are much more efficient than the alternatives.  Yay, multinational corporate capitalism!

We didn't try the blind massage folks, but man, were we tempted.  There are a few famous blind massage schools in Thailand, so hopefully we'll get a second chance.

You'll recognize the fish massage from our post on the same from Bangkok.  Fish massage is sweeping the world!

And no, we didn't smash any plates or glasses during our time in Cambodia.

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