This weekend was the finally of the second official seven day mourning for King-Father Norodom Sihanouk. On Monday evening February 4, 2013, Cambodia began to cremate the body of the country’s most revered King after it had been lying in state for more than three months at the capital’s royal palace for the public to pay their last respects.

 
I was not able to join the tens of thousands of mourners that descended on Phenom Penh for the actual cremation ceremony, but I was able to make these few pictures of mourners and the palace over the last few months.

Mourners like this woman light incense and candles as they say prayers to honor the memory of the Late King Father Sihanouk.

At night the Royal Palace, where the Late King Father Sihanouk’s body laid, was lit up.

The Kings ashes are to be put in an urn, preferably made of gold, and placed in a newly constructed stupa at the Royal Palace. The new stupa is the lit tower seen here from across the Tonle Sap river on the far right.