Easter Sunday ..Orienter Sunday

                                                            

Easter/holy  Saturday (remember that oh ye secularites and fly by nights) I brought Siobhan (here for the easter hols) to visit the quaint, almost unspoiled, unchanged by time village of the Bunong called Dak Dam  very close to the border with Vietnam. And there in the middle of the village was the type of Catholic church the new pope seems to champion, small, poor and among the people. I have no idea how active it is but if small is beautiful is the new mantra (see Buddhist reference) for the pope he might include this on his itinerary when he gets going.

This morning I brought her to a small Buddhist temple site on a hill overlooking Sen Monorom, my home town for my Cambodian sojourn.  This photo is shot from the temple and that large brown strip is/was the air runway. Until recently, since the road was built from the capital it could take a couple of days to travel here in the wet season so flying in was more efficient. Now with the new road it is unused.

These next pictures show Siobhan considering the temple.

Will I go in, sure isn't one holy place as good as another, and sure dont I do yoga and all that kind of stuff

An go on, in you go

 and with a little encouragement she entered it. So the feast of the resurrection was observed in a very oriental and ecumenical fashion

HAPPY EASTER from the ORIENT