Thursday, 21 November 2013

Butterflies and flowers

There are some really lovely flowers in Cambodia.

 

This lily was in an attractive social enterprise cafe in Siem Reap that is also a butterfly breeding farm. I was sitting here yesterday after morning class having a second breakfast of mixed fruit (papaya, banana, pineapple, mango and dragon fruit) with yogurt and honey, surrounded by butterflies which are kept in the area by a covering of netting over the flowers and plants. It was magic especially with the sound of monks chanting in the background. The local butterflies are glorious ... but very difficult to photograph in the wild. In this cafe they obligingly settled on nearby flowers:

 

 

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