November 26th, 2019
Crabby 🦀 Time Tuesday
Tuesday is the day that Sam and Jan have been looking forward to for a while now. Jan loves seafood so wanted to make a day trip to Kep to feast on some fresh crab. There’s a crab market there right on the shore where fishermen catch crab and then sell it fresh right there at the market. You can get it packed to go or you can get it cooked and you eat it right there if you like.
‘We’ did both! I don’t eat crab but I enjoy watching other people feast on things they enjoy.
So i should’ve just gone with that but made a poor decision to order chicken at a seafood place. Let’s just say that what came was not what I thought I was ordering. For $12.50 I thought actually we were ordering a whole chicken they Landon and I were going to share. He doesn’t eat seafood either, but we ended up getting (essentially) some bones from a chicken leg. But lesson learned. I think the seafood places in Kep Don’t want to cook and serve items other than seafood, so they make it Prohibitive. Perhaps even punitive 🤣🤣
We left for Kep At 10 AM and were back in Kampot by two. This left us ample time for a massage and a walk and more coconut shake/pie from the Pie place. I went with Mango this time rather than Apple. It was delicious.
I have some souvenir shopping that I have to get done because word on the street is we are leaving at 8 AM tomorrow morning. So I went to the Tiny Kampot Pillow shop which is a local shop owner that I always like to buy something from when I come here. She and her girls have their sewing machines right there in the shop and they’re just busy cranking out some of the cutest little crafty things. I can always find something! No exception this time. it just happens to be right next-door to the Rusty Keyhole too, so around 4 PM I got myself a small pepperoni pizza, my last one before we leave.
And then I freshened up quickly at my hotel before heading down to the river to go on a Sunset/Firefly Cruise. It cost five dollars and I think I’ll be gone for about an hour and a half maybe two hours they just take you out on these big boats that are open and you can just relax as you toodle down the river and then at the end by the time you get there at 6 o’clock maybe 630, it’s completely pitch dark and so then you just enjoying watching the fire flies in the groves along the riverbank.
The cruise back is completely in the dark and as your approach Kampot they have lit up all the bridges and the lamp posts and street signs with these colourful LED string lights. It’s very glitzy and reminds me a lot of Vietnam.After the cruise I walked around town a little bit and just enjoyed the nightlife. I was back in my hotel room and tucked away safely by 830pm.
Last night in Kampot…..
