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Près de Siem Reap, il y a les magnifiques temples d'Angkor Wat. Mais il y a aussi le dépotoir d'Anlong Pi...
20/03/2024

Près de Siem Reap, il y a les magnifiques temples d'Angkor Wat. Mais il y a aussi le dépotoir d'Anlong Pi...

Siem Reap is home to world heritage site - Angkor Wat, and a less majestic site Anlong Pi. Anlong Pi is a huge dumpsite which is home and work for hundreds ...

For a few years now, young students here in Cambodia have embraced a plastic free culture, but today I went to Starbucks...
06/03/2024

For a few years now, young students here in Cambodia have embraced a plastic free culture, but today I went to Starbucks Cambodia/Laos Starbucks, and normally in Starbucks, in the big powerful Western world, I had plastic free straw when ordering my favorite Oatly drink. In Sweden, in most cafés, I had plastic free straws. In fact, I am 99.9% certain that even Starbucks in Shanghai had plastic free straw.
Now, I have to say that the straws offered here in Siem Reap are made of PLA plastic (while paper straws were hiding in the cupboard), but it doesn't change anything, because PLA plastic still becomes microplastic in lakes and rivers. Again, Cambodia is not for instance Sweden where this country recycles 99% of its waste, and that when wastes are burnt, it is in a waste-to-energy plant, not like here in the open air.

"Polylactic acid (PLA) is a popular replacement for conventional fossil-fuel based plastics products such as polyethylene (PE) due to its high biodegradability and recyclability. Previous studies confirmed that PLA microplastics (MPs) and PE MPs pose similar toxicity risks due to that MPs’ risk is primarily attributed to physical and indirect nutritional effects."(1)

Therefore, maybe, it would be important for Starbucks to localize. After all, even if Cambodian students embrace a plastic free culture, what's the point if even a huge corporation like Starbucks doesn't ? Now, the problem is not Starbucks, but maybe the fact that most of the world "don't give a s... about South East Asia." FYI, I just quoted 2 Asian friends who told me this today, and I responded, "I care". This until I become misanthrope.

Finally, I was told that by the Starbucks employees that they went back to plastic straws after "foreigners complained about the paper straws". Isn't ironic! I had 2 beverages today, with the paper straws I was given from the cupboard, and they were just perfect!

1. Source: High levels of microparticles release from biodegradable polylactic acid paper cups compared with polyethylene-lined cups https://lnkd.in/gFx8a_HR.


​Siem Reap school students embrace plastic-free culture​

27/02/2024
26/02/2024

Moi, la jungle, les lianes et le coucher du soleil ☀️

24/02/2024

Beautiful 😍

24/02/2024

Giant Puppet Parade Giant Puppet Project, Siem Reap 🙏👋❤️

23/02/2024
18/02/2024

Le Neak Pean, « temple des Nâgas enchevêtrés ») est un petit temple bouddhique à Preah Khan. Il fut construit et modifié par Jayavarman VII à la fin du xiie siècle. Il est de proportions régulières, avec un bassin carré entouré de quatre bassins plus petits.

18/02/2024

Le Ta Som (ប្រាសាទតាសោម, l'ancêtre Som) est un temple bouddhiste sur le site d'Angkor au Cambodge.

Situé à l'extrémité Est du baray nord-oriental (Jayatatāka), au nord du baray oriental, cet ensemble de dimension modeste a été érigé par Jayavarman VII vers la fin du xiie siècle.

11/02/2024

Ta keo Temple
Ta Keo was the state temple of Jayavarman V, son of Rajendravarman, who had built Pre Rup. Like Pre Rup, it has five sanctuary towers arranged in a quincunx, built on the uppermost level of five-tier pyramid consisting of overlapping terraces (a step pyramid), surrounded by moats, as a symbolic depiction of Mount Meru.

11/02/2024

Prasat Preah Khan
Preah Khan was built on the site of Jayavarman VII's victory over the invading Chams in 1191. Unusually the modern name, meaning "holy sword", is derived from the meaning of the original—Nagara Jayasri (holy city of victory).[

10/02/2024
09/02/2024

Ta Prohm (khmer : ប្រាសាទតាព្រហ្ម, "grand-père Brahmā"), originellement appelé Rājavihara (រាជវិហារ, "monastère royal"), est un temple du site d'Angkor au Cambodge, construit entre la fin du xiie siècle et le début du xiiie siècle. Le Ta Prohm, tout comme le Bayon, fut construit sous le règne du dernier grand roi de l'empire khmer Jayavarman VII adepte du bouddhisme mahāyāna.
Ta Prohm est le troisième plus important des sites d'Angkor et l’un des plus photographié du fait de ses paysages spectaculaires.

Ce monastère intentionnellement laissé en l'état avec ce couple végétal / ruines est devenu une réelle accroche marketing du site qui répond à l'imaginaire touristique et rappelle notamment Lara Croft de Tomb Raider.

The temple is referred to as the "Tomb Raider Temple" or the "Angelina Jolie Temple" due to its depiction in the film La...
09/02/2024

The temple is referred to as the "Tomb Raider Temple" or the "Angelina Jolie Temple" due to its depiction in the film Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001).
Ta Prohm (Khmer: ប្រាសាទតាព្រហ្ម is the modern name of a temple near the city of Siem Reap, Cambodia, approximately one kilometre east of Angkor Thom and on the southern edge of the East Baray. It was built in the Bayon style largely in the late 12th century and early 13th century and was originally called Rajavihara.

07/02/2024

Le Banteay Kdei (khmer : ប្រាសាទបន្ទាយក្តី, littéralement « la citadelle des cellules monastiques ») est un temple d'inspiration bouddhique édifié par Jayavarman VII vers 1185 sur le site d'Angkor au Cambodge. Il est situé à 2 km à l'est d'Angkor Thom, au sud du baray oriental.

07/02/2024

Srah Srang (en khmer ស្រះស្រង់) ou « le bain royal » est un bassin parementé situé à Angkor (Cambodge), au sud du baray oriental, immédiatement à l'est du temple de Banteay Kdei. Il mesure 700 m par 350. La terrasse et les pourtours sont en grès.

28/01/2024

Le Baphûon est un temple dédié à Shiva, construit sous le règne de Udayādityavarman II (de 1050 à 1066) dans le complexe monumental d'Angkor au Cambodge. Également appelé montagne d'or (svarnādrī), le Baphûon est construit sur une colline artificielle. Il se situe dans l'enceinte d'Angkor Thom, entre le Palais Royal et le Bayon.

21/01/2024

Angkor Thom est la cité royale construite par Jayavarman VII (qui régna probablement de 1181 à 1220), roi bouddhiste de l'Empire khmer, à la fin du xiie siècle et au début du xiiie siècle, après la conquête et la destruction d'Angkor par les Chams. Son nom actuel, Angkor Thom, signifie « la grande cité ».

21/01/2024

Friendly little monkeys 🐒

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