https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw-on-vacation-part-iv-phnom-penh-and-the-silk-weaving-village Style Advice for Fashion Lovers en-US Sun, 17 May 2026 21:14:54 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/search.php https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw-on-vacation-part-iv-phnom-penh-and-the-silk-weaving-village#post-818269 Mon, 14 Jan 2013 20:08:39 +0000 Lisa 818269@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>What a fun trip, and the scarves are so pretty! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw-on-vacation-part-iv-phnom-penh-and-the-silk-weaving-village#post-818262 Mon, 14 Jan 2013 20:03:59 +0000 Transcona Shannon 818262@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I'm so enjoying these installments of your amazing trip MaryK - thank you so much! I love all the vivid colours in the costumes and surroundings - so beautiful and vibrant! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw-on-vacation-part-iv-phnom-penh-and-the-silk-weaving-village#post-818127 Mon, 14 Jan 2013 18:49:27 +0000 Anonymous 818127@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Thank you for sharing your fabulous trip with us. I've been enjoying it so much that i don't want it to end! I loved that you danced with the girls. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw-on-vacation-part-iv-phnom-penh-and-the-silk-weaving-village#post-818118 Mon, 14 Jan 2013 18:45:31 +0000 Gaylene 818118@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>It's so much fun to accompany you on your trip through these pictures, Mary K. They are the perfect antidote for the grey winter skies outside my office. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw-on-vacation-part-iv-phnom-penh-and-the-silk-weaving-village#post-817982 Mon, 14 Jan 2013 16:30:43 +0000 ManidipaM 817982@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Thanks, MaryK! Filing away for professional as well as personal reference. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw-on-vacation-part-iv-phnom-penh-and-the-silk-weaving-village#post-817928 Mon, 14 Jan 2013 15:39:56 +0000 Mochi 817928@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>You write such juicy travelogues. I feel like I'm traveling alongside you. Thanks for brightening my day. Can't wait to hear about Japan (but take your time </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw-on-vacation-part-iv-phnom-penh-and-the-silk-weaving-village#post-817914 Mon, 14 Jan 2013 15:31:27 +0000 Isis 817914@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>LOVE these pics! I feel like I was on the trip! Would love to do this one day! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw-on-vacation-part-iv-phnom-penh-and-the-silk-weaving-village#post-817912 Mon, 14 Jan 2013 15:29:30 +0000 MsMary 817912@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Thanks, ladies!</p> <p>The dancing girls were the most adorable young ladies ever! Each one of them had her own lovely personality that shone through in her dancing. And after the show was over the "prima ballerina" (in the cobalt pants) gave me a big hug for dancing with them!</p> <p>Jenanded, no time for custom made clothes, and also no room in my luggage! </p> <p>Manidipa, we used AMA Waterways and couldn't have been happier with everything about the trip! It was this one: <a href="http://www.amawaterways.com/vietnam-cambodia-river-cruises/vietnam-cambodia-the-riches-of-the-mekong-2013" rel="nofollow">http://www.amawaterways.com/vi.....ekong-2013</a>. In fact, we are already planning a European river cruise with them for next year! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw-on-vacation-part-iv-phnom-penh-and-the-silk-weaving-village#post-817799 Mon, 14 Jan 2013 12:28:37 +0000 rute 817799@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>amazing! Thanks for sharing with us! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw-on-vacation-part-iv-phnom-penh-and-the-silk-weaving-village#post-817697 Mon, 14 Jan 2013 05:10:44 +0000 ManidipaM 817697@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I am so enjoying your vacation with you, MaryK! Thanks for sharing. I'm missing my Cambodian scarf (in the 'wrong city') today...</p> <p>@Diana: The slouchy 'pants' are actually a sarong wrapped through the legs. Easy to do once you know how, but MAN would it challenge the environmental norm at most workplace! ;-)</p> <p>OT: MaryK, would you mind if I asked which ship/cruise company you chose? </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw-on-vacation-part-iv-phnom-penh-and-the-silk-weaving-village#post-817670 Mon, 14 Jan 2013 04:13:52 +0000 Anonymous 817670@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Thank you Mary for sharing these amazing pictures. That was the trip of a lifetime and you look beautiful while taking it. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw-on-vacation-part-iv-phnom-penh-and-the-silk-weaving-village#post-817662 Mon, 14 Jan 2013 04:01:12 +0000 jenanded 817662@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>how amazing!!! did you get any clothes made there as well??? I would covet a silk wrap blouse at least... </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw-on-vacation-part-iv-phnom-penh-and-the-silk-weaving-village#post-817575 Mon, 14 Jan 2013 01:50:18 +0000 Jaime 817575@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Thank you for sharing your photos MaryK (the young)! They give such a great sense of your trip. What an amazing experience! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw-on-vacation-part-iv-phnom-penh-and-the-silk-weaving-village#post-817544 Mon, 14 Jan 2013 01:24:29 +0000 Angie 817544@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>What a feast for the eyes! You look radiant and beautiful Mary. I love your very blue eyes :)</p> <p>Mr. K looks dashing too! And that's quite the scarf business they have going in Cambodia. LOVED the girls doing their dance. So culturally rich. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw-on-vacation-part-iv-phnom-penh-and-the-silk-weaving-village#post-817519 Mon, 14 Jan 2013 00:45:44 +0000 MsMary 817519@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Denise, yes, the dance was very similar to the video you linked, although perhaps a bit less beauty-queen-like! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw-on-vacation-part-iv-phnom-penh-and-the-silk-weaving-village#post-817518 Mon, 14 Jan 2013 00:45:38 +0000 Diana 817518@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Thanks so much for sharing your photos, Mary! I love hearing about your trip. </p> <p>Those dancing girls have amazing slouchy pants! I'd love a pair of cobalt ones. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw-on-vacation-part-iv-phnom-penh-and-the-silk-weaving-village#post-817513 Mon, 14 Jan 2013 00:39:28 +0000 Suz 817513@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Okay...this is totally amazing and I am loving these photos, but I have to tell you, that last line of yours was quite a cliff-hanger, oh beautiful scarf twin!! Isn't that scarf the greatest? I LOVED it for my trip!!!! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw-on-vacation-part-iv-phnom-penh-and-the-silk-weaving-village#post-817490 Sun, 13 Jan 2013 23:33:11 +0000 deb 817490@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Great pics! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw-on-vacation-part-iv-phnom-penh-and-the-silk-weaving-village#post-817482 Sun, 13 Jan 2013 23:24:52 +0000 Raisin 817482@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Wow, what great photos! Those kids are so adorable. I bet it was a fabulous trip! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw-on-vacation-part-iv-phnom-penh-and-the-silk-weaving-village#post-817479 Sun, 13 Jan 2013 23:22:55 +0000 CocoLion 817479@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>The dancers in #18 are so stunning. Is this the kind of dance they did?<br /> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PG5Vlogy7vA" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PG5Vlogy7vA</a></p> <p>Thanks for sharing the stories and pictures. Love the Phnom Penh Man Cut Hair shop. And it looks like they do man-icures too. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw-on-vacation-part-iv-phnom-penh-and-the-silk-weaving-village#post-817477 Sun, 13 Jan 2013 23:21:00 +0000 Sveta 817477@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>It was for sure a dream trip of lifetime. Thanks for sharing, amazing pictures and story! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw-on-vacation-part-iv-phnom-penh-and-the-silk-weaving-village#post-817473 Sun, 13 Jan 2013 23:15:51 +0000 annagybe 817473@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Neat! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw-on-vacation-part-iv-phnom-penh-and-the-silk-weaving-village#post-817460 Sun, 13 Jan 2013 22:58:05 +0000 Caro in Oz 817460@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Thanks again for sharing - you've brightened up my morning. Love #18, gorgeous kids. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/wiw-on-vacation-part-iv-phnom-penh-and-the-silk-weaving-village#post-817454 Sun, 13 Jan 2013 22:48:18 +0000 MsMary 817454@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>After our amazing experience at the Angkor temples, we headed down river towards Phnom Penh, the capitol of Cambodia.</p> <p>1/2/3. The view of the river from our balcony was pretty amazing, featuring fishing boats, a local water bus full of workers from the other side of the river, and more temples and shrines than we could count.</p> <p>4. Our first stop was a local school, where the children proudly sang a song for us in English and Cambodian, and we got an opportunity to donate sorely-needed school supplies. The children enjoyed having their photos taken and looking at the photos on the screens of our cameras!</p> <p>5/6. The main stop on the morning’s tour was a village where the main industry is weaving. Every house is built on stilts, and has one or more looms underneath. </p> <p>7. The business model for selling the scarves was interesting: Every family has its own business, and each business sent one person with an armload of scarves to accompany our tour group. They weren’t allowed to come inside anyone else’s property, of course, but they were shoulder-to-shoulder with us on the unpaved roads, and stood right outside as our guide explained, for example, how to wrap a traditional Cambodian scarf. See the ladies in the background on the right?</p> <p>8. After the tour was finished, we ended up on the main road beside the dock, where each family had its own “store,” which was just a blanket on the ground. Every sales person attached herself to a member of our group and led us to her “store,” where most of us purchased a good sampling of the local wares. I bought at least 10 scarves at an average price of $5 apiece! Here you can see the merchants packing up their stores as our boat pulls away from the dock. (And see closer view, no. 22.)</p> <p>9/10/11/12. The next day we finally got to have an introductory tour of Phnom Penh, which is a very busy city with a ton of motorbikes on the road! I loved the fashionable ladies riding their motorbike in front of the stores in the fashion and beauty district in photo 10! 11 and 12 are Mr. K and some other people from our group, including the Best Dressed Lady on the Tour. </p> <p>13/14/15/16/17. After the group tour we engaged a tuk-tuk, or motorbike rickshaw, for a private tour of some other parts of the city, including the Congress building (14), local scenery including this mom and baby (15), and the riverfront with an example of the ubiquitous new construction (16). We ended up having drinks in a rooftop bar and taking it all in (17). And may I just say that from now on I don't want to travel any other way but tuk-tuk! It's amazing!!</p> <p>18/19/20/21. Upon our return to the ship, we enjoyed a wonderful performance by some young Cambodian dancers and musicians – and I even got to join in (This is really the only shot of my outfit for the day -- gray longsleeved tee, dark green cargo pants, black sport sandals, and "magic scarf" from Target!)</p> <p>23. ETA turned out there was another lady on the cruise who had the same name as me! Here we are, and this is probably the best shot of the top half of my outfit! (Over the next few days our names became "Old MaryK" and "Young MaryK." I didn't mind, but hopefully nobody used those names in earshot of her...)</p> <p>Next up: The Killing Fields </p>