mangrove reign (fine art print) · Koh Kong / Cambodia · 2015

Walking deeper into the mangrove forest, an eerie atmosphere fell into step. The tangled roots, so exposed by the low water level, reached with desperately long fingers for the muddy ground, where black crabs coalesced into a moving floor. Intercepted by dense clouds and denser foliage, few sunrays survived the journey into the thicket, which forbade the safe passage of creatures that didn’t belong. Humans had invited themselves in with a boardwalk, but there was no place for mammals in this realm and everything beyond the narrow pathway was under the mangroves’ reign.
 
 
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tags: Koh Kong, Cambodia, Southeast Asia, nature, mangrove, forest, plant, root, travel, living room, horizontal