Totally slept in to catch up on some rest, only started checking out the local attractions during the late afternoon after we had purchased our bus tickets to Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam (costing USD8 at the bus station, whereas when we asked at the hotel, they were trying to rip us off for $15 each!!) due to leave tomorrow morning.
The Royal Palace and Silver Pagoda
Above is a small templet in the city square where locals were making their new year offerings.
As it was close to the Khmer New Year, the streets were filled with people in the evening , peddling local delicacies and 'small eats', like fried grashoppers and locusts, and some other kind of yummy 6-legged creatures which names don't exist in my vocabulary...
Of course, being tourists, we couldn't resist the temptation and got ourselves a bag of crispy grasshoppers (the smallest of the lot and least terrifying as it was one of those where we were daring each other with "You eat, I eat!!"). Arming ourselves with a few cans of beers, we parked ourselves in the open grass area in front of the Royal Palace. A few locals who went past noticed we were having some difficulty with their delicacy, stopped and laughed at us and pointed out that to enhance the eating experience, we should firstly peel off the wings, followed by the legs, leaving just the body. After many attempts, finally had one and guess what, it was most liberating!! It didn't actually taste bad at all, just tasted like some lightly salted crunchy peas of some kind!!!
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