Museum & checkers

When Mum first went to the National Museum in Phnom Penh in 1996, the roof was a home for bats so the floor was covered in bat poo, called guano. The Australian Government fixed the roof.

The Khmer Civilisation was very powerful and rich. The map below shows the Khmer Civilisation in red - and it covered parts of Thailand, Vietnam and Laos.

I liked walking around the huge museum which showed Cambodian or Khmer artifacts for more than 1000 years.

There were a lot of Apsara's - some made of wood, some of stone, and some of metal.

This is the Silver Pagoda

This is a cool game. Checkers using blue-grey pebbles for one competitor and brown pebbles for the other competitor. It cost nothing to play - just picking up stones and drawing a grid !

This is the National Museum