{"id":446,"date":"2024-05-13T14:07:49","date_gmt":"2024-05-13T14:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/watopotians.org\/?p=446"},"modified":"2024-05-13T14:16:08","modified_gmt":"2024-05-13T14:16:08","slug":"phnom-penh-nightlife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/watopotians.org\/index.php\/2024\/05\/13\/phnom-penh-nightlife\/","title":{"rendered":"PHNOM PENH NIGHTLIFE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Phnom Penh has grown so much in the past couple of years that I now get lost in a city that I once could walk around with confidence, easily identifying my location by looking for one of only a few five-story structures that made up its skyline. Today, however, the buildings below sit on a piece of land that once was the slum area where I would visit with my medical bag.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/watopotians.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/pp-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-325\" srcset=\"https:\/\/watopotians.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/pp-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/watopotians.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/pp-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/watopotians.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/pp-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/watopotians.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/pp-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/watopotians.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/pp-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>As impressive as it looks in the daytime, the night scene is even more spectacular, with tourist ferries slowly churning the waters of the Tonle Sap and Mekong Rivers.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"829\" src=\"https:\/\/watopotians.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/IMG_8413-1024x829.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-449\" srcset=\"https:\/\/watopotians.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/IMG_8413-1024x829.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/watopotians.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/IMG_8413-300x243.jpg 300w, https:\/\/watopotians.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/IMG_8413-768x622.jpg 768w, https:\/\/watopotians.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/IMG_8413-1536x1244.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/watopotians.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/IMG_8413-2048x1659.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Several of the Wat Opot High School students were staying in town for the week-end for a seminar on Anger Management, so we decided to pack our evening meal and take them out on one of the boats that are for hire by the hour for only $30.00.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/watopotians.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Makong-river-boat-1-1024x682.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-451\" srcset=\"https:\/\/watopotians.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Makong-river-boat-1-1024x682.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/watopotians.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Makong-river-boat-1-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/watopotians.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Makong-river-boat-1-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/watopotians.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Makong-river-boat-1.jpeg 1460w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>A cool evening breeze made the excursion even more enjoyable after yet another scorching hot day.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/watopotians.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/scot-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-454\" srcset=\"https:\/\/watopotians.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/scot-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/watopotians.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/scot-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/watopotians.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/scot-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/watopotians.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/scot-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/watopotians.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/scot-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>We were especially happy that Scott could join us for the occasion. He is often not seen because he is the one taking the pictures.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Thanks for checking in! If you leave your questions in the comment section below, I will be able to share the answers with everyone.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-medium-font-size\"><strong>The Watopotians<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phnom Penh has grown so much in the past couple of years that I now get lost in a city that I once could walk around with confidence, easily identifying my location by looking for one of only a few five-story structures that made up its skyline. Today, however, the buildings below sit on a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":454,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/watopotians.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/watopotians.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/watopotians.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watopotians.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watopotians.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/watopotians.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":456,"href":"https:\/\/watopotians.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446\/revisions\/456"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watopotians.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/watopotians.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watopotians.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watopotians.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}