The Cambodian countryside offers a lot of interesting sights. It is a totally different world out here. People's activities revolve around farming and hauling basic materials from a to b...small horses pulling carts filled with rice or bamboo chicken cages, mopeds with baskets strapped to them filled with small pigs, tuc tucs with bundles of live ducks tied together by their feet. The concept of animal cruelty definitely does not exist here.
We visited a rural market on our way and found a local delicacy: fried tarantula. Piles of large fried spiders on platters...and some buckets full of live specimens, big and hairy. I am somewhat of an arachnophobic person, so this sight really got me. No, we did not try them.
No matter how rural you get here, the children leaving school on their bicycles all wear uniforms. Blue skirts or pants and nicely starched white shirts. It is a beautiful sight.
We are here at the Raffles Grand Hotel D'Angkor now, a very nice old palace close to the temples of Angkor Wat, which we will visit tomorrow. I'm very excited to see this temple of all temples here in Cambodia. A 1000-year old massive site in the middle of the jungle.
mandatory sunrise at angkor wat!!!
ReplyDelete