How The Rural Cambodians Live | បាត់ដំបង
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
- Whilst our on our epic day, I visited a couple of in laws in their villages outside of Battambang. Their houses were typical of those living in rural Cambodia, very modest but clean and practical.
Join me on this little tour of some Rural Cambodian houses!
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G'day - Thanks for stopping by and watching! We have heaps of videos all about living and travelling in Cambodia through the unique viewpoint of of a Barang and his Khmer wife! Make sure you subscribe so you don't miss any of the action!
Cheers!
Marc
Keep up the good work!! Keep blogging!! God bless
@@msmorena Cheers!!
I'M CONSTRUCTER IN Battambang
Thats great mate! What do you build? Are you building houses or roads?
Hope you are staying safe.
Thanks for watching and hope you enjoy our videos :)
UA-cam really wanted me to watch this video again! Even better the second time around :)
Ah awesome!! The algorithm doing its thing :) This was part of a huge day in Battambang (4 videos worth of footage). I remember it like it was yesterday…. But is about 2 years ago now. Everyone we met was so lovely and happy to show off their way of life to the Barang…ahhh memories!
Very interesting, Marc, such a different way of living. There seems to be a relaxed and calm feel there, not sure if I'm just imagining it. Thanks for sharing the experience, cheers.
Cheers Ken! You are not imagining anything, things in the village are so much more relaxed than the towns/cities - which says a lot given how relaxed the whole country is! Everyone was so welcoming and trusting as well to have this strange 'barrang' wander in with a camera too!
@@MarcsMildlyInteresting, yes they did seem very accepting of the camera, I love the relaxed and laid back feel there. Looks like out dollar is dying against the greenback, down to 58c and falling, not good from my perspective. Cheers and all the best :)
Great vid Marc, congrats on the 200 subs!!
Cheers Steve! You will be nudging 500 soon once start tearing up the dirt after the build (of the car, not the trailer) is complete!
Love Battambang! Live there before and during the Pol Pot regime. Really missed my childhood.
Hey Ry Phon - Thanks for commenting! That must have been quite a full on experience living through the Pol Pot times - glad you made it through and the aftermath as well! Do you still live in Cambodia? Battambang is such a lovely place that deserves more visitors. Thanks for watching and hope you enjoy our videos! Cheers - Marc
simply is the honesty , i salute to this village and villagers.====
Agree Ganga - These villages are beautifully simple. The people that live there are super relaxed and happy, it was a great atmosphere to hang out in!
Thanks for sharing
Thanks so much Khmer Feature! Hope you enjoyed our videos!
nice conten about combodia. ==
Thanks Mate!
Can't believe you are back in lockdown. Should have come to Siem Reap when you had the chance. Andy is leaving me for Greece soon. Ps I just got a osmo pocket, new toy to play with.
Good little Vlog we might be back in Australia for Christmas, hopefully you will be out of lockdown before that........
Hey mate! Yeah this was a fun little detour on our big day out in Battambang.
We went away last weekend and after seeing peoples behaviour - can absolutely see why we are back in lock down, people not really taking precautions on top of VicGovs own 'ruby princess' moment with the security guard stuff up. I am ok to stay locked down for as long as it takes if we can eliminate the spread - the quicker we do that the quicker we can travel again! Really spewing we didn't get back to SR even for a mini break now..
Hope Andy goes ok in Greece, id be a bit iffy going anywhere in Europe..
Looking forward to see how you go with the Osmo - they look like a really cool little camera! I think going back to QLD for xmas should be ok - they have had a great run and seem to have things under control unlike us here in Vic *shakes head*
Welcome to Cambodia 🙏🏻🇰🇭
Thank you so much!
Rural areas in Cambodia live like that
Me too, I also live in rural area
Hey Logan And Lauren! Thats awesome mate, where in Cambodian are you living right now? I hope you are staying safe?
Thanks so much for watching and for your comment 😁
Cheers - Marc
The last house you was at, I live in one built just like that, BUT years ago they add block walls on the bottom part. Now it look like a regular house. Block wall's down with wooden upstairs
G'day Richard! Fascinating mate - Where do you live and how do you find living in a dwelling like this? I wonder why they boxed it in with the block walls though - has that made the upstairs hotter not having airflow underneath?
Thanks for sharing - Cheers!
Hi : how you learn speak khmer
You have wife khmer toch you very good I’m happy for you
Hello Vong Soeung :) Yes you are right, my wife and her family have taught me some Khmer! I want to learn more to I can have better conversations with Khmer people. Thanks so much! Are you watching from Cambodia?
If I ever wanted to buy or build a house here it would be a traditional stilt house. I dig the simplicity and functionality they offer. Of course, I would need slightly more amenities like an air-con and good wifi lol I'm such a barang! But I really like how they sectioned off the areas for different uses like the kitchen, the lounging area, and the main house above. :)
There are companies that make them but in modern materials - We have seen them up close and they look pretty good and you can get all the mod cons too! Far nicer than the concrete McMansions that are sometimes built!
I totally dig the separate kitchen, especially when some of the more exotic fish dishes are being prepared!
@@MarcsMildlyInteresting I agree. They have more character than the pre-fabs and they make sense for rainy and dry season both!
Dave Does Cambodia spot on! Chilling under the house with a fan, in a hammock with a cold beer..khmer style all the way!
Get a Starlink satellite dish and you’ll be all set. Marc, you’re a good, humble human being, always looking at the houses,people, and situations as it is without any condescension.
You speak Khmer better than I do haha.... nice!!
Thanks mate! My wife yells at me in Khmer so it’s a good thing to know hehe!! Can you speak much?
Thanks for watching!
Very cool thank you for the tour from the houses and people. Stay safe. From the US
G'day Steve! Thanks for watching mate and glad you enjoyed the video - hope you enjoy our other ones as well. If you have any questions about anything in the vids (or about Cambodia) leave us a comment and we will get back to you!
Hope you are safe and surviving there in the USA - we are locked down here in Melbourne Australia - can't wait for all this stuff to be over..
Cheers!
Loving your videos mate, thanks for taking the time to post them!
Are you still o/s or back in Oz? Go Tige's!!! ;)
G'day Kristian - Cheers mate glad you are enjoying them!
We are very much back in Australia - These videos are from all our previous trips. This one was from December 2019. We try and get back to Cambodia at least once a year and still have a heap of videos to edit from our 2023 trip - including another look at this house which is in fact super modern now! Have you ever been over to Cambodia? Cheers! Marc
....go blues ;)
Home me wow brother 😮
Thank you so much for showing me!
Looking good
Cheers mate! Thanks for watching (and for subscribing!) hope you are enjoying our videos!! Cheers 👍
My wife grew up cooking on a ceramic stove like that in Vietnam.
Hey Brian! They are nice little bits of kit aren’t they! So simple but you get some amazing flavours when cooking on them. Where in ‘Nam did your wife grow up? We made an Australian version back home from a beer keg with holes cut in it, works like a charm! Thanks for watching and the comment Brian, hope you enjoy our videos!
@@MarcsMildlyInteresting My wife grew up in Da Nang. We plan to retire there in a few years.
Fantastic!! It's such a nice part of Nam, great weather and beaches too! Love the plan and hope you can pull it off!!
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The country side is beautiful. I could live in the village areas, looks like my kind of lifestyle. Chill and relaxing.
Hey Richard! The thing with Cambodia is you don't have to stray too far from a main road to really feel like you are living back in time. This was out in Battambang and was beautiful out there - you are spot on, very laid back and a very slow and relaxed pace of life!
Cheers mate!
It’s 1st time i saw you , the 3 year old was mildly intrested
hehehe geez I hope that was what he was thinking! A couple of times village kids have run away crying when they first see a Barang!
Cheers for watching mate - love the user name!
Marc's Mildly Interesting Adventures They always say “ hi “ to me too until I give them a dirty look 👀 .
The name was as close to my towns name that a farang could say .. Phitsanulok
I say ‘ cheese ‘.
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Hehe nice one! Beautiful area in the guts of Thailand!
I wouldn’t have called P’lok ( = wife’s home town ) beautiful at the time or now . but made her a house there , we lived up in Chiangmai..
Now i live in k. thom , the thai wife in seattle , i wish the new one was from sihanoukville .. k. thom is hot , dirty , &. deeaaad ...
you talk funny 😁
cambodia 🇰🇭 is mildly ugly dont you think 🤔?
i guess P'lok is beautiful - if you been in cambodia 🇰🇭 long enuf 😉
And this is exactly how the majority of the population live and have lived for a very long time, and whether we westerners think that's good or bad, it's the way it is and they're perfectly content with it for a variety of reasons. I have traveled extensively throughout SEA and these cultures haven't evolved over centuries because of endless wars and a complete lack of education, and we should seriously think about that before we start throwing money at the cute girlfriend that somehow shows up when we visit these countries; I've seen it all too often. A typical family grow their own vegetables, they have chicken and often cows and/or pigs and they can easily live on $2-$4 per day, the wole family, easily. When the western guy arrives and gets involved with a local girl things change dramatically, because suddenly the ATM is open, the money starts to flow to her and her family, and we actually often have a very negative influence on the whole family structure, because the $100-$200 or $500 per week we give as allowance to that oh-so-cute girlfriend corrups the entire family. Suddenly gambling comes into the picture, the brothers stop working because why would they work when the money is so easily available, the drinking hits new highs and it gets worse and worse and more and more money is needed. It's a vicious cicle and we're not helping these families in the least in so many cases. It's ok to help but we have to be very smart about how we do it and unfortunately most westerners are hopelessly stupid when it comes to foreighn cultures, the men are simply blinded by the cute gf, and to us the $$$ seem minimal but it can easily lead to serious family problems and very often ends very badly. The general population doesn't understand budgeting, and there's no 'tomorrow', life is lived today, because they've lived for generations in uncertainty. Tomorrow may never come, so let's live and party today, and giving a family in Cambodia, or anywhere else in SEA for that matter, even a few hundred dollars at a time, is criminal. I've spent years in Cambodia, using it as a home-base while traveling to the neighboring countries, and these people are very good people, they're incredibly tough people and they'll see through you in a milli second. Common sense isn't common, it's actually learned from our parents and throughout life; common sense doesn't exist in SEA, it's just the way it is. Money corrupts almost instantly...I've been there, done that, don't do it...or at least do it very carefully and only as small gifts and only when absolutely necessary. Sorry, I didn't mean to ramble, but I like SEA very much and we westerners aren't necessarily helping these people by simply throwing money around, it's disrespectful and we're looked upon as self-centered walking ATM machines by most of these people and they laugh behind our backs, and it didn't use to be like that, and might I add, I'm not accusing the gentleman in this video of any of this, but watching the video just got me going. Sorry.
Hey Sean, Thanks for sharing your well thought out and considerate comment.
Sounds like you have a fair bit of experience in the area and have witnessed a few things in your time travelling around SEA.
I think the main thing any westerner can do is to act with diligence and to educate themselves before jumping head first into one of the scenarios you described above. I am lucky to have spent a lot of time with my Khmer Wife and her family (you can see in our other videos) and have an appreciation of the mindset, priorities and values they have. Things like planning, problem solving, critical thinking & root cause analysis seem to be the biggest things that frustrate me, where as I frustrate them cause sometimes I just don't go with the flow or am a buzz kill playing devil's advocate to any idea they have - it's an interesting dynamic!
You have given a few great ideas for topics I will try and cover off in some future vids too!
Thanks again for watching and sharing!
Cheers
Marc
Wow wow fantastic video love your work 😀 👏 ❤
Cheers Graham - Thanks mate! Glad you enjoy our videos!
The first house is Very typical of the 100’s of rural houses I’ve seen while travelling around Cambodia and the few dozen rural homes of my friends I’ve been in.
We have no idea how fortunate we are in Australia. The second house is one you’d tend to see on the outskirts of town.
G'day Gary! Both kinds are very basic aren't they - but most of the time the folk who live there are perfectly happy. We take for granted so many things in Aus - its only when you see these places (when they run off batteries and need water pumped in etc) you can really appreciate what we have. Mind you, its always great getting out in the thick of it - cannot beat the relaxed vibe the Khmer fold ooze when chilling out have a couple of cans out in the village!
It’s 2021 and my peoples still lived like 1970’s. So sad. 😢
Hey Zero You - Thanks for watching! Funnily enough, they probably had better conditions before the KR took over in 75. From what I understand of the countries history, Cambodia was relatively well off before April 1975. Those 4 years, and the years of conflict after the liberation really stiffleed development. There are much better (and much worse) living conditions across the country as well, but everyone seems far more relaxed than us in the west. Where do you live yourself? Are you in/have you ever visited Cambodia before? Thanks for commenting and hope you enjoy our videos!
@@MarcsMildlyInteresting It’s very true that the living condition before the KR was far more better than now. I lived in the United States......now. I’ve been back 5 times. I left Cambodia a little after the reign of the KR ended. Most Cambodians have always been poor all their lives and therefore never take anything for granted. Your Khmer is passively good. Thanks for the content! Os khun! 🙏🙏🙏
Hey Zero You! We have a few 'Khmericans' watching that left the old country after the KR - it's great that you have managed to travel back and visit though. I think it's always good to keep a strong connection with your home country. That is a great point that i think the Khmer never really take anything for granted and are very down to earth folks! You can thank my wife and her family for teaching me Khmer. Each time i go back i pick up a little more here and there. I hope I don't forget any before we can go back again. Cheers again for the comments, glad you can enjoy our vids :) min eiy te!
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