Wednesday, the last wednesday we would be spending in Cambodia.
Today was a day to try new things, like cooked spiders, green mangoes, getting up at 6am and fitting 15 people into a 11 seater bus. All these great experiences were on the 7 hour bus ride to Siem Reap, which began at 6:30am. We pilled, squished and smoshed into the bus, one having girls and the other having boys. I was quite glad to be on the girls bus because there was little Cambodian surprise in the boys bus, a Cambodian hitch hiker who happened to be the drivers wife. After a heated, not translated discussion with a lot of "no no noooo" words coming from Lynn's mouth we preceded on our way to Siem Reap. The first stop along the way was at a random little place that happened to sell cooked and marinated spiders. Most of us tried them, with my mouth quite enjoying chomping down on a tarantula's leg, we only ate the legs as the body is sour and well - yuck. It was also here that I tried a green mango with chili and salt, something Gabe and I have been wanting to try for ages, it was amazing, but you can't eat too many otherwise you will get constipated and this is not good. After our stomachs were full of spiders we headed off again. You may think riding in a cramped bus for 7 hours is not fun, but you are wrong! For the whole trip we had beautiful khmer pop music about a boy that cheats on a girl, then the girl cheats on the boy, then they get back together but he has to leave because she's dying.. I dunno really, as it wasn't translated and hard to follow. After about 2 hours of that beautiful sound in my ears we stopped for lunch at a beautiful place surrounded by water, (it was the tp end of the famous Tonle Sap- the body of water that Cambodia lives on) here we had a beautiful Cambodian buffet. After lunch we continued on our way until we arrived at about 5ish in Siem Riep. More to come.....
Freya
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