Cambodia is a very small country, but if you were there you would never forget Cambodian women. If at least once you had the chance to see the statuette of the multi-armed goddess Lakshmi-bye with a chiseled miniature figure — thin waist, high chest and rounded thighs, graceful bend of the neck and elegantly folded hands — then you will remember it for a long time. So, any Cambodian woman is a revived Lakshmi statuette. They are very beautiful, sincerely smiling and always neatly dressed.

An abnormal, militant feminism that turns a woman into a man’s rival is alien to Cambodians. Cambodian women are good wives, probably the most devoted in the world. However, women in this country do not sit at home waiting for their husbands — there is enough work for everyone here.

If a woman loses her husband, she will never marry a second time. To the end of her life, a widow shaves her head as a sign of mourning or simply goes to a women monastery. It’s important that nobody obliges her to do this — she simply doesn’t really imagine her future life without a person with whom they were the one.

In short, one of the most pleasant memories of Cambodia is the beautiful, funny and childishly immediate women of this country.