Camfam are feeling pretty hot. And not in a good way, there is so much sweat. We finally touched down after a gruelling journey (36 hours for Kirsten!) to be greeted by a wave of sticky heat, an incredibly overly excited Sophie and some very welcomed cold water. We dumped our stuff in our hostel before heading straight to the nearest bar to celerbrate the start of our Cambodian adventure. Khmer people go to bed pretty early so most restaurants were closed - our first meal in Cambodia therefore consisted of pringles and rambutan - a hairy, spikey fruit with a sweet centre a bit like a lychee.
Our first real Khmer food was breakfast - Khmer porridge, which seemed suspiciously like undrained rice with eggs that been basking in salt for too long. It didn't go down a treat. First on our agenda was visiting Wat Phnom, the traditional centre of a city. As beautiful as it was, we were all a bit surprised to see raw rashers of Bacon dangling from the mouths of the stone lions. Next we headed off to our Khmer Culture Class - essentially the longest game of charades ever played - a two hour extraveganza where not a single word of English was spoken. Highlights included fake monk dressing, a full funeral possession and culinary treats including tarantula, grasshopper and cockroach. Helen stole the show managing most of an enormous spider.
In the evening we all enjoyed the cheapest meal we have ever had - with the most amazing dishes averaging $2.50! Jet lag seemed to be setting in as certain members of the group could be fooled into believing that the long fabled cake stomach really exists. A deet induced coma soon followed ready for an early start at Seametry School.
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