{"id":97,"date":"2018-02-08T13:27:54","date_gmt":"2018-02-08T13:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nixtravel.com.au\/cambodia\/?page_id=97"},"modified":"2018-03-31T09:15:32","modified_gmt":"2018-03-31T09:15:32","slug":"heading-to-kep","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/nixtravel.com.au\/cambodia\/southern-cambodia\/heading-to-kep\/","title":{"rendered":"Heading to Kep"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nAnother beautiful day in paradise, round 30 deg and sunny<\/p>\n

The Crickets<\/strong>
\nOn the trip from Phnom Phen to Kep, we stopped off at a roadside stall so we could try deep fried crickets.<\/p>\n

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\nCrickets in dish<\/p>\n

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\nAnnie with crickets
\nBoth of us tried one. An interesting taste, not at all unpleasant, but I still think I prefer KFC.
\nJust as I was think this, along came…<\/p>\n

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I still find birds of all stripes, and the chooks of Cambodia are particularly colourful.
\nThere was one rooster in a cage, and by the look of the spurs, more likely to be a fighting cock.
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Temple<\/strong><\/p>\n

First destination is a ruined temple dating from the 12th Century.
\nPart of adventure was taking the courage to pass through the entrance, propped up by a wooden pole<\/p>\n

Also in obligatory attendance, were the locals, in need of some money. They ranged in age from teens, to what looked like 90s, by Vutta said were round 60<\/p>\n

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Pepper plantation<\/strong>
\nNext stop was a pepper plantation- I now think I know far more about pepper than I ever need to know.!!!<\/p>\n

Our guide was a young French girl who was working as a a volunteer ether for a month. Cambodia grows the best peppers in the world.
\nPeppers like heat, but not sun.
\nVines take four years until they can be harvested.
\nWhen first picked, peppercorns are green. and need to packed quickly. Once the bottle is opened, they will last 6 months in the fridge.
\nMost peppercorns are dried to become our common black peppercorns<\/p>\n

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4th Century Shrine<\/strong>
\nNext stop was a 4th Century shrine. We were warned that were over 100 steps to it, but not that the 6.5km bus trip in would take nearly an hour.
\nThe road was a narrow dirt road, ver corrugated with loads of potholes.
\nAfter climbing the steps up the side of the steep hill, there were more steps down to the shrine. The shrine is inside a very tall cavern, with stalactites ans stalagmites.
\nCertainly well worth the bus trip and the steps.<\/p>\n

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Bungalows for tonight<\/strong>
\nOurs was up the hill, bit of a hike, and there steps up are not something I want to tackle after a few drinks<\/p>\n

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