Tuesday, October 1, 2013

Boh Bai Bpun - Pchum Ben

Battambang province, Cambodia - October 2, 2013 - Boh Bai Bpun translates basically "rice offering". The gates of Hell are now fully open and the ghosts are set free. We leave the house together at 4am to go and offer rice and water at the local temple, Wat Kamphaeng.

This is the offering brought: Sticky rice balls surrounded by bananas and other sweetened fruits.



Entering Wat Kamphaeng.


The monks chant in the building behind us. We make 2 rotations of the building, dropping off rice balls and pouring small bits of water located in shrines around the wat.



An old lady stands before the wat after everyone has left.

As we walk home, my friend Sothep tells me that this property had a French office on it before the war, but it was too haunted and they had to tear the building down. No one has been brave enough to live on it ever since.

Pretty creepy looking.

Two doors up the street is a house that many people have tried to live in but none have been able as it is occupied by ghosts. There are many places like this around the town of Battambang.

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