Our Cambodian tour continues! We left Phenom Penh bright and early heading north to the town of Kratie. Along the way we stopped at a rubber tree farm where we saw the actual rubber that had dripped out of the tree. The latex rubber is white so I imagine they add something for it to become the dark colour we are familiar with. As well we stopped at a black pepper farm where we saw the pepper trees with green pepper corns which are later dried to make black or red pepper. They were very tasty and flavourful. A highlight for Warren has been the edible insects available in Cambodia. So far he has tried beetles, tarantula, crickets, grasshoppers, snake and frog legs! Most of them are fried with spices, the snake is smoked and the
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