Or Pchum Benh as it is called here in Cambodia is a very important holiday. It falls on the fifteenth day of the tenth month of the Khmer calendar. Many Cambodians pay respects to their dead ancestors. Monks can be heard chanting at all hours of the day or night. Food offerings are made to the ancestors' ghosts directly (throwing rice into the air) or to Buddhist monks, generating merit for the deceased.
Everything is closed. Get stocked up. Seriously... FOOD, DRUGS (advil, silly!) TP, and TAMPONS because you won't be able to find anything this week.
Oh by the way, I am sitting in a lovely coffee shop here in Phnom Penh (really, I'm not being sarcastic) and I just had the pleasure of seeing a mouse run out from underneath the couch I am sitting on... Good thing Mar isn't here!!! Or Theresa for that matter ;)
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