Siem Reap - Visit to a Wood Craving Workshop

Siem Reap - Wood Craving Workshop






















We visited the Wood Craving Workshop in Artisans Angkor, Siem Reap, Cambodia. The workmen obtain their skills through apprenticeship. The finished products produced are very good. They are available in the Artisans Angkor shop in the complex. There are many tourists from all over the world visiting this complex.

Siem Reap - Visit to a Stone Craving Workshop

Stone Craving Workshop



Display of different types of stones and marbles used for craving



Skilled workman craving an elephant model



Craving a big piece of rock



Skilled workman hard at work



A sample of almost finished product



Some samples of products done by the artists



Finished product on display in the garden of Artisans Angkor



More displayed finished product


Another fantastic finished craved product

We visited this Stone Craving Workshop in Artisans Angkor, Siem Reap, Cambodia.The workmen are very skilled and produce very good finished products. You can see some samples in the garden displayed for public viewing. You can purchase them as well.

Artisans Angkor - Polychroming, gilding & lacquering

Siem Reap - Artisans Angkor



Polychroming, Gilding & Lacquering Workshop



Samples of products in different process for explanation to tourists





Skilled worker at work.



Polychroming





Lacquering



Finishing touch


The finished products.

We visited this polychroming, gilding and lacquering workshop in Artisans Angkor in Siem Reap, Cambodia. The artists obtained their skills through apprenticeship provided by Artisans Angkor. The finished products are impressive and are on sale at the shop in the Artisans Angkor complex. The place is an tourist attraction and most tour groups are given a tour of the complex with many workshops before they are shown to the shop where the finished products are on sale.

Artisans Angkor - Silk Painting Workshop

ARTS IN SIEM REAP, CAMBODIA




Silk Painting Workshop



Skilled artists at work



The sign language they use to communicate



Most of the skilled workers are handicapped and use sign language to communicate



The skilled apprentices at work.


The finished products displayed in the shop.


We visited this Silk Painting Workshop in Artisans Angkor, where the skilled painters are dumb using sign language to communicate. They learned their skills through apprenticeship. They are so artistic that their finished products are so good that many tourists are attracted to buy from the shop in the huge complex of Artisans Angkor in Siem Reap, Cambodia.

Artisans Angkor in Siem Reap, Cambodia

The Artisans Angkor in Siem Reap, Cambodia



The surrounding landscape of the huge complex of workshops & shop



A sculpture done by the skilled workmen



Sandstone Polychromy Workshop



Learning through apprenticeship



The process of sandstone polychromy


The finished product in display in the shop

We visited the Artisans Angkor, a place where handicapped people were given a chance to be apprentices to learn a skill and trade. We visited the sandstone polychromy workshop and were quite impressed by the skilled workmen and ladies in producing such a artistic finished product.

Lunar New Year of the golden ox

LUNAR NEW YEAR of the Golden Ox




Lunar New Year of the Golden Ox is here




Wish you & your family a Happy & Prosperous Lunar New Year

Happy Lunar New Year

WISH YOU A HAPPY & PROSPEROUS

LUNAR NEW YEAR




Lunar New Year is here !



Wish you & your family a Happy & Prosperous Lunar NEW YEAR

Floating Fish & Crocodile Farm with a Restaurant in Chong Khneas, Siem Reap, Cambodia

Chong Khneas - Floating Village , Siem Reap, Cambodia

Floating Fish & Crocodile Farm with Tonle Sap Restaurant




Map of Cambodia with the Tonle Sap Lake in blue.



It is a floating restaurant - Tonle Sap Restaurant



All the fishes - so many !



Crocodiles everywhere ? so scaring and unsightly ?



Fishing Method used the fishermen in the area



Another method of fishing !



The floating fish enclosure



Shop for local souvenir ? there are many to choose ?



More choices ! I think they are expensive ! only for the tourists?


The sign says for itself ? We did bought 2 bottles of drinking water !

Our boatmen took us to visit this Fish & Crocodile Farm with a small shop and the Tonle Sap Restaurant. There is an exhibition to show the various methods used by the fishermen in the area to catch the fishes.

There were so many tourists from all over the world visiting the floating village. There are spots in the three-storey building where you can take photos or view the area crowded by all sorts of boats and ferries.