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Don’t close your mind…

…even though nothing is open. Pchum Ben festival is precisely the perfect time to learn. Learn how to ride a motorbike while there is no one in the street, learn how to play with this plaything which looks like a Badminton birdy, learn how to kill a guitar, learn some karate moves on your terrace, and, only if you’re deeply bored, learn the city streets’ numbers and try to understand the how and why (good luck).

You can also : organise a DVDs marathon with your friends and invent a special cocktail for the occasion ; read thousands of books - and if you actually do have thousands of books, please let us know ; test new recipes of Amok or chicken curry ; catch up on your late ironing ; write down the 364 days that you missed in your diary ; run a kite, especially if it rains ; paint on your walls – the real ones, not facebook’s; eat in; spend a day without your mobile phone, everyone is praying anyway...

Now, feel better ? You got plenty of original ideas and if it’s not enough, you can always take a huge nap and wait for the end of the celebration.

And you, how do you spend your days in Phnom Penh during Pchum Ben?