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as well. Motorbikes are also used to transport chickens, bundled per 50 and hanging upside down almost getting stuck in the back wheel. Also pigs are very common things to ship on your motorbike. On the back of the bikes, legs tied together, upside down facing the sky. They are still alive when transported, which is our conclusion after one has demonstrated us by urinating in the air.

I stop to buy new bananas for a second banana-hotdog. The recipe is fairly simple, buy one of those delicious French baguettes you can only buy in Laos and Cambodia (and France), tear it in two, make a hole in the middle and push the banana in, ready. Pineapples make another healthy snack and we have become quite experienced chopping them everyday. It’s not your average day breakfast like at home, but same same.

Skuon Spiders - Phnom Penh to Siem Reap

In the late afternoon we arrive in Skuon, a small village at a road junction. It’s not the size that this village is known for, it’s the spiders! Not my favorite subject and especially not on my food plate. After we have taken a shower we are on the road to find the small animals. They are easy to find, they aren’t that small after all. At the junction the ‘spider ladies’ sell chili spiders, deep fried spiders as big as a hand with some chili sauce, according to Mr. Pumpy they taste like chicken (“doesn’t all the strange food taste like chicken?”). I am not such a spider lover and reject the offer of trying. Instead we leave the eating to the local villagers and we head to the guesthouse. At 23:00 the electricity is turned off again; we expect René, who sleeps next door, to make some refusing noises in a minute since he uses the fan to blow away the mosquitos. No fan between 23:00 and 4:00 am tonight.

The next day we continue in the direction of Siem Reap. The part we cycle in the early morning looks like it has been bombed yesterday, it’s ...