#MidApril

2025-04-15
New Year Day 2 – honour the elder, temple and more water
The second day of the New Year, Veareak Vanabat, focuses on assisting the less fortunate and contributing gifts and donations.
Families honour their ancestors through temple prayers.

During the New Year period, in addition to specific family and temple rituals from early morning on, there is a continuous celebration with family gatherings, abundant food and drinking, music and dance. This partying goes on in private homes and in public areas for most of the week.

Activities often revolve around boats and water.

Along the rivers, people gathers for shopping, eating and take turns do some short bout trips, or punting, in classical designed boats. And some ordinary river boats.

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Photo shows a couple of boats, one typical flat river boat, and one older more decorated one on a river overlaid with girlander decorations of royal colours, National flag, Siem Reap province flags and buddhist rainbow flag. The riverside is filled up by people and families waiting their turn for a boat trip, or greeting and photograph the people already out in a boat.

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