This post is mainly photos from my day trip to an animal sanctuary. Lots of happy animals = happy Laura.
lady making my dinner – spicy papaya salad
eating my dinner on the floor. I learnt that when you say ‘spicy’ in Cambodia it means ‘SPICY’
mumma and bubba monkey.
fat dadda piggy
squirrels
giant flying squirrel
samba deer
baby muntjaac deer
stinky marten
baby muntjac deer after I fed him
some really big bird
this gibbon loved our tour guide, so cute. when she insulted him, he went to cry in the corner and started howling.
crocodile with his mouth open so he can warm up
peacock
pretty iguana tail
more gibbon (I think)
gibbon drinking ice tea
mumma and bubba gibbon
mumma gibbon having some ice tea
sun bears rescued from illegal bear trading. loads of them were missing paws that had gone into soup
moon bears taking a bath
sun bear
this is a leopard but you probably knew that
this is a tiger
dinner
lucky, the happiest elephant I’ve ever met
dinner at a vegetarian restaurant: mushroom gruel, friend tofu scum and a bowl of raw cabbage 
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.
