Saturday 23 April 2011

Phnom Penh & Phnom Tamao Animal Santuary

This post is mainly photos from my day trip to an animal sanctuary. Lots of happy animals = happy Laura.

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lady making my dinner – spicy papaya salad

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eating my dinner on the floor. I learnt that when you say ‘spicy’ in Cambodia it means ‘SPICY’

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mumma and bubba monkey.

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fat dadda piggy

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squirrels

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giant flying squirrel

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samba deer

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baby muntjaac deer

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stinky marten

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baby muntjac deer after I fed him Smile

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some really big bird

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this gibbon loved our tour guide, so cute. when she insulted him, he went to cry in the corner and started howling.

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crocodile with his mouth open so he can warm up

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peacock

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pretty iguana tail

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more gibbon (I think)

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gibbon drinking ice tea

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mumma and bubba gibbon

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mumma gibbon having some ice tea

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sun bears rescued from illegal bear trading. loads of them were missing paws that had gone into soup Sad smile

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moon bears taking a bath

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sun bear

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this is a leopard but you probably knew that

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this is a tiger

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dinner

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lucky, the happiest elephant I’ve ever met

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dinner at a vegetarian restaurant: mushroom gruel, friend tofu scum and a bowl of raw cabbage Smile this floats my boat

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Cambodian rooftops and a cyclo driver convinced that I need his assistance

Other good news: yesterday I downsized my rucksack from 60+10 litres (cumbersome) to 40 litres (about the size of a schoolbag). Anyone who’s never been backpacking will think this is boring and incidental; anyone who’s been backpacking will understand that this is the most liberating thing you can do.

Phnom Penh is currently in the midst of a humungous thunder storm so I’m hiding out at my hostel. Tomorrow heading north to Kratie, on the way to Laos.