Khmer Culture

Difficult to draw a representative portrait of Khmer culture, so rich and so complex. Imposing and borrowed from religion, as are the temples of Angkor which give to perceive what the influence of the kingdom could have been in its heyday, Khmer culture and the arts worn by young artists show themselves in a modern light. and sometimes angry without ever breaking with the heritage of ancient times, a timeless guarantee of the unique and magnificent identity of the Khmer country.

In response to the terrible attacks of the Khmer Rouge regime against cultural jewels, musicians, dancers, artists and intellectuals of all kinds, great efforts have been made to resuscitate dying traditional arts and restore them to their former glory.

Diversity of beliefs and everyday “small cultures”, enriched both by the presence of indigenous peoples who, possessing their own languages, religions and traditions for some time to come, continue to live at their own pace, and by the openness of Khmer to what comes from outside ...

It is also the small culture of the country that we appreciate, the art of living and surviving on a daily basis in a contrasting world, between cities on the move in a tremendous development dynamic and traditional countryside with unchanging rhythms, all this small world is rubs shoulders with and coexists in relative but precious serenity.