Real People We Met in Places
尋常百姓 II - 東南亞篇
1/23/2020
2005 年訪越柬兩地，特別印象深刻的是柬埔塞的安哥窖 Angkor Wat. 12 世紀時建立的高棉王國，在此修築了偌大的廟宇，雖然十七世紀之後王國沒落，整片地區被叢林及荒煙漫草掩閉。如此又過了好幾個世紀，王國舊址一旦重見天日，保存完美的建築雕塑工藝及其舊日遺物，這荒僻野地的天然博物館，引發了一浪又一浪的遊客群前來瞻仰膜拜。**
這裡接觸到的男女老少都相當樸實誠信，對外來人十分友善。在此渡過的幾日，除了天氣太熱，中飯後所有人包括旅客都得睡個午覺才出門，不然當真像人間天堂呢！
河內街頭兜售越南粉的女郎
Young girl vending Vietnamese Phó
Hanoi, Vietnam
2005
街道邊地上擺著好幾堆法國麵包
Pile of French bread are left on street side on ground
位於越南北部美麗的下龍灣
著名的法國影片 “Indochine”
和 007 「明日帝國」都在此地拍攝外景
海上討生活的漁民
和漁船也兼做旅客的生意
Ha Long Bay
2005
with thousands of toweling limestone islands
sticking out of water like mountains
Fishermen and fishing boats abundant to sell their day’s catches
To travelers in this
favorite tourist resort
這幾艘小船基本上就是他們的家
兒女們都跟隨在船上
年歲較長的還能幫忙家事
Many junk boats serve as the living quarters of
Fishermen/fisherwomen’s families
在樹林邊上玩耍
盪鞦韆的孩童
Small children playing on tree limbs
Angkor Wat, Cambodia
2005
賣手環的小女孩
喊道：一個一塊錢 （用台語）
The little girl selling bracelets
called out : “a dollar a piece” in Taiwanese dialect
（Meaning $1 US Dollar）**
Since our tour group indeed came from Taiwan
一位身著當地服飾的婦人
站家門口外
“可否讓我拍張照？”
笑容滿滿的應許了
A Cambodian woman standing at the gate of her house
She was happy to lend herself as a model
for a tourist/photographer
販售當地紀念品的老人
手中提著一把類似胡琴的樂器
這是這位長者的素描肖像
Sketch of an old vendor
** this was in 2005, fifteen years earlier. Imagine things would probably be quite different nowadays
Grace
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