This is our last day in Cambodia and, as usual, I hate to leave. There more I travel, the longer I want for each trip, to really settle into the culture, to get to know it...to try more foods, to meet more locals, to just BE there longer. If we had a few more days, we'd head down to Phnom Penh and see more of the country. But it's time to go to Vietnam, with a quick stop in Ho Chi Minh City, then onto the Con Dao islands for a bit of beach, hiking, biking, snorkeling and maybe diving.
Some pictures from our day:
A ghost field at the war museum, old tanks, anti aircraft and other rusty relics of a brutal time in Cambodian history. The field was a mine field before they removed them. It was also a battleground, many souls were lost here. Eerie on so many levels.
Land mines at the museum, I never knew there were so many different types.
We stopped along the way for some buggy snacks. Yes, Tom bought a bag and ate a few before it grossed him out. They're not the tarantulas that he promised to eat, but we haven't run across those yet.
Locusts. Yummy.
At the silk farm. A very cool experience. They raise the worms, spin the silk, dye it, and have a shop with beautiful creations. Silk worms at about two weeks old.
Worker making a scarf.
This is how they sell gas around here. They have some gas stations, but there are tons of roadside stands with funnels and lots of old liquor bottles with gasoline. Puzzling, we will have to ask someone why!
A sign in front of a restaurant in Siem Reap...notice the cheap prices (and this is even near the tourist area, so higher than normal) and the note at the bottom.
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