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Tamika with a live tarantula

Hello everyone! DAY 6 has just passed us, and admittedly, it was quite an uneventful one in terms of the rest of the trip.

The day mainly consisted of the group sitting on a bus for 6/7 hours, making our way up to capital city Cambodia, the mighty Phnom Penh, which is situated on the Tonle Sap River.


We left the hotel at roughly 9 am, after our goodbyes with our awesome tour guides, we set off to on our new buses. After a couple of hours of travel, we pulled into a rest stop area for lunch, which were sandwiches and banana bread provided by the Blue Pumpkin Cafe.

Fruit for sale at Spider Town

Between listening to music and playing ipods, the bus trip was quite fun, but we then pulled into the SPIDER VILLAGE!!!!!!!!!! Everyone jumped out of the buses to experience some extreme heat. We further proceeded to having tarantulas crawl up our arms and on our faces. Some people even ate them!!!! (fried of course)


Finally, after 6 hours on a bus, we had made it to Phnom Penh, and it was and is just stunning!!! We were greeted to our hotel with drinks and a nice pool session. 

Dana with a mangosteen- yum!

Dinner was good, we also saw soccer and what we thought was 'Cambodia Zumba' being performed and enjoyed on the street.


We then finished the day with a good devotion from one of or teachers, Mr Williams.

Special mention to our bus driver, as today, every time I looked out the front window, we were either driving in the middle of the road or on THE WRONG SIDE!!!!!

Fried tarantulas (some students ate some!)

Please enjoy the photos as provided by the legendary Mr Jones and know that everyone is safe and having a good time. I hope this blog filled you in on the day we had.

Cheers,
Mark Panopoulos

Fried crickets

To the right of our hotel

Opposite our hotel

Out for dinner

Dinner guest - geckos!

Hotel pool