Cut Ice, Siem Reap
January 7th, 2009 - 9:02pm - No Comments »
One of the views of the local township from our hotel balcony in Siem Reap, Cambodia. Moments earlier, a worker had been cutting up the ice on the table.
In such a warm climate, I was surprised to see how ice is used by the population versus how we keep things cool. On a number of occasions I spotted large slabs of ice easily a metre wide being cut, chipped or — in one case in the Old Market — cut up with chainsaws.
And really, if it works, why not? It’s worked for decades so why change it?
