Tried the Snake Set Menu a couple of nights ago at Can Tho - snakemeat spring rolls and a snake curry. The snake meat was sort of like the tentacles of an octopus in appearance and consistency. Taste was harder to discern given the preperation. Don't really need to do that again.
Took a boat trip to see some floating markets near Can Tho (see photo). The river really is the center of life on the Mekong.
Overnighted at Chau Doc then on up the revier, crossing into Cambodia, and now in Phnom Penh. The traffic rules here, much like in Vietnam, seem to follow those of international diplomacy - might makes right. Which I'm a bit uneasy about in both cases, and especially so when precariously perched three to a motorbike riding about town. It seems the norm for the locals - most people we saw on a single motorbike was five, but I won't be doing that again either! Tuk tuks are a much less hazardous way to get around town.
We saw the Choeung Ek Genocidal Center - one of the many Khmer Rouge Killing Fields in the country, as well as the Toul Sleng Museum of Genocidal Crime where victims were held and tortured until they confessed during the mid 80s. All a bit grim. Between 10% and 40% of the population - depending on your source - died in the 4 year period.
Off to Siem Reap and Ankhor Watt tomorrow by car
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