SHOTLIST

SIEM REAP, CAMBODIA (NOVEMBER 4, 2025) (ANADOLU-ACCESS ALL)

1. VARIOUS OF SMALL BOATS RACING IN RIVER AS SPECTATORS WATCH

2. VARIOUS OF BOATS IN RIVER

3. DECORATED EMPTY BOATS LINED UP ON WATER

4. MEN ON BOAT PADDLING

5. BOATS WITH PARTICIPANTS ON RIVER BANK

6. MEN ON DECORATED BOAT IN RIVER, ONE STANDING AND HOLDING CAMBODIAN FLAG

7. MAN ON BOAT PADDLING

8. BOATS WITH PARTICIPANTS ON RIVER BANK

9. VARIOUS OF BOATS FILLED WITH PARTICIPANTS IN RIVER

10. TIGHT SHOT OF PARTICIPANTS, ALL WEARING BLUE T-SHIRTS, SITTING ON BOATS IN RIVER

11. SPEACTATORS AND PARTICIPANTS STANDING ON RIVER BANK

12. WIDE SHOT OF BOATS SAILING BY SPECTATORS ON RIVER BANK

13. SPECTATORS ON RIVER BANK

14. WIDE SHOT OF DRAGON BOAT SAILING

15. PARTICIPANTS ON TWO BOATS PADDLING

16. SPECTATORS SITTING ON WOODEN PIERS



SIEM REAP, CAMBODIA - NOVEMBER 4: Traditional boat races were held on Tuesday, Nov. 4, in Cambodia's northwestern city of Siem Reap as part of the annual Water and Moon Festival, Bon Om Touk, one of the country's most significant cultural events.

The festival, which marks the end of the rainy season, symbolizes renewal, prosperity, and harmony in nature, celebrated through the unique natural phenomenon of the Tonlé Sap river's flow reversal.

This year's celebrations in the popular tourist hub saw a return of the traditional races on a smaller scale. The event was notably organized following the recent easing of border tensions with neighboring Thailand, adding a tone of regional calm to the festivities.

Bon Om Touk, as the festival is locally known, is internationally recognized as the Water and Moon Festival. It stands as Cambodia's largest and most spectacular national festival, deeply rooted in the nation's agricultural life. The event takes place each November, timed with the full moon of the Buddhist month of Kadeuk.