(left to right) A merchant selling mangosteens in a fl oating market on the Mekong; the Jayavarman, with sampans in the foreground; one of the Jayavarman's 27 rooms.
A few minutes later, a snaggle-toothed elderly woman wrapped in a krama, the tra- ditional checkered scarf worn by men and women alike throughout rural Cambodia, peeked out from the dark, open door of a house teetering on thin stilts as two tall white cows chewed straw in the home's shade. Farther along, two monks in custard- coloured robes sat reading under a towering teak tree, the red and gold of the wat, or temple, glinting in the dusty distance like a Christmas bauble.
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