We flew to Phnom Penh today - tickets were a bargain at $30 each and the flight only took 35 mins. Our pre-arranged taxi driver took us to the wrong hotel at first and it was a bit of a nightmare trying to explain to him as he didn't speak much English - my usual way of dealing with language barriers is to speak slow and loud in English but that wasn't working (actually it never does!) so I showed him my hotel booking and luckily he understood and our hotel was just round the corner.
Our hotel room is quite nice, but not as nice as the one in Siem Reap but that is a big act to follow. We have a large bedroom with a separate living room so we have plenty of space.
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| Our bedroom |
For dinner this evening I had booked a food tour - we were picked up at 4:30pm by our guide (an Australian lady called Ducky!) along with the other guests, an American family from Ohio. Our first stop was a roof top bar for cocktails with amazing views over Phnom Penh. We then went to a local market (we do love a market in S.E Asia!) where Ducky got us to try all sorts - different fruits, a Cambodian dessert, pork crackling, pork belly and some ribs which everyone was swooning over apart from me!
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| The ribs that everyone loved |
We literally ate what ever Ducky told us too! I said to the Americans that we would never have dared try any of this on our own and they agreed! Our final stop was a local BBQ restaurant where Ducky ordered for the table and we all tucked in. We tried all sorts of different dishes including.....
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| Bugs! |
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| I didn't really eat this one! |
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| Frogs - surprisingly tasty! |
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| Our group (that is not Bill Clinton sitting next to me), Ducky & our tuk tuk drivers |
It was a very good evening and we ended up discussing politics (mainly Trump with a bit of Brexit thrown in) with the Bill Clinton lookalike next to me.
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