Kandal Village Siem Reap
Creative backstreet of boutiques, galleries and hidden murals born from a grassroots shopping revival.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Kandal Village in Siem Reap follows Terry McIlkenny, a Londoner who kept fleeing grey winters for Cambodia until he and his partner Nat Di Maggio opened a small gallery called Tribe on this backstreet in December twenty eighteen. It traces how they handed a blank wall in the alley beside it to the Irish street artist Fin DAC, who painted a towering, masked apsara he named Kandalis, and how the gallery kept giving wall space to young Cambodian painters like Nak Noy who had never shown their work before. Locals now call the passage Coconut Alley, after the carts that still line it.
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