Next week is Khmer New Year, celebrating the start of the 2,570th year of the Buddhist Era in Cambodia. In the Chinese Zodiac this also will mark the beginning of the Year of the Horse in Cambodia. On Monday MCC Cambodia held a joint Easter and Khmer New Year celebration. This included a time of…
Tag: New Years
បោះអង្គុញ | Throw Seeds (Angkunh)
Throw Seeds is a traditional Khmer New Year game that’s played with the large, glossy seeds of what Cambodians call ‘Forest Tamarind’. These large seeds are called Angkunh. Angkunh seeds have the same lacquered feel as domestic Tamarind seeds but are magnitudes larger and have a flattened shape. The game is played played between two…
ល្បែងវាយក្អម | Smash the Pot
One of the most popular traditional Khmer New Year games is – quite simply – called Smash the Pot. It involves hanging thin clay pots filled with flour (or, in the city, baby powder) and a prize of some sort (usually tamarind candy) on a rope. The aim of the game is to smash one…
Happy New Years 2020
One year ago we had no idea that we would be in Cambodia now. I remember that we felt stuck on New Years 2019. We had wanted to apply to an Occupational Therapy position working with Agent Orange victims in rural Việt Nam – despite some significant concerns about the girls – but the previous…