Feb 10 – Today we arranged with the hotel a tuk tuk to take us to a silk farm. Here we learned about the intense process to make silk items. The weavers work 8 hours a day 5.5 days a week. In order to make a two meter patterned silk piece it takes four 8 hour days!
We returned back to the hotel to cool off with a swim. Next, we headed down the street to a market. It was more of a local market where locals would shop for their groceries. It was interesting to see all of the food stalls. We jumped back into a tuk tuk and headed to pub street. Brian and Carrolyn had showed us the restaurants that were in behind the main restaurants like back alleys. We found a nice place and had a traditional Cambodian (Khmer) meal. It was the best meal Shawn and I have had on this trip. We had fish amok (a curried dish), coconut chicken soup and fresh spring rolls.
Our next tuk tuk driver took us to a barber shop for the boys to get haircuts. They were long overdue for one since its been five months. We pointed to the pictures on the wall for the styles the boys wanted. It cost $3 usd each and we gave them a $2 tip. Pretty cheap haircuts and the boys were happy they turned out.
We returned back to the hotel for another swim and some downtime. The next adventure was to the Phare Circus. This is a Cambodian circus where artists train at a school that provides free public education and vocational arts training to children from disadvantaged backgrounds. This was such an entertaining circus as the artists had so much energy and proud smiles. Danika says it was the live version of the “Greatest Showman”. It was really well done. We headed back to the hotel but made a pit stop for fried (frozen) ice cream rolls. – Renelle
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I am going to research Cambodian recipes… it sounds interesting,
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