Cambodia Sends Off King Sihanouk in Fiery Ceremony – GlobalPost
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — One hundred one guns flashed against a quiet summer sky, then the sound of conch shells pierced the air. Norodom Sihanouk — Cambodia’s two-time king and former prime minister — had been placed onto his final funeral pyre.
Sihanouk’s son, King Noradom Sihamoni, and his widow, Queen Norodom Monineath, set alight the ornate pyre. The bright display pumped white smoke into the air over the country’s capital just after the sun had slipped below an unusually pink February sky.
Cambodians have been mourning their beloved, mercurial King-Father for months now.
Here’s some photos that didn’t make it into the GP gallery. 
