Eating tarantula

Siem Reap to Kep - fed up of the bus now!

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February 16th 2014
One day more in Siem Reap, enough of the temples, after a night out at the Temple Bar in Pub Street, eating deep-fried tarantula (disappointingly chewy and not crunchy as hoped), having our feet massaged by 15-year-olds, which felt slightly wrong, although they had left school and this was their job they said (but a lot of muttering and snide giggling in Khmer to each other, so we didn't reall ... read more

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Most Cambodians consider themselves to be Khmers, whose Angkor Empire extended over much of Southeast Asia and reached its zenith between the 10th and 13th centuries. Subsequently, attacks by the Thai and Cham (from present-day Vietnam) weakened the ... ... read more