The hammock was really comfortable but I didn't have a great night's sleep, I was freezing! I wrapped my towel around my head to try and keep the heat in, the blanket was tucked right around me and I put two pairs of socks on with my shoes. I never thought I'd be this cold in Cambodia! I woke up quite a few times, the moon was surprisingly bright considering the full moon has just passed. All I could here were frogs and birds, no tigers and elephants thank god!
The ranger was awake and makings fire at 4am this morning. He must have been cold aswell! The tour guide said he was warm and sleepy from the rice wine until it wore off and then he was cold!
Mike fell out of his hammock last night, I think the rope slipped that was tied around the tree. Haha!

I got up about 6.30 for a pee and to warm up around the fire, the ranger came back with the traps he left out from last night, he caught four rats and one squirrel. Yeah, they eat rodents!
I got back in the hammock because I was so tired! Scott surfaced after a while, he was the only one who slept all night, and every time I woke up last night he was snoring his head off but I couldn't kick him to tell him to shut up, perhaps that's another reason I didn't sleep well, his snoring kept me awake!

Our guide made use coffee in our bamboo cups this morning and he had it in bed, what a gent! The coffee was lovely too, Nescafé 3in1 sachets! (No we didn't grind the coffee beans like we should have, living off the land in the jungle!)

Afterwards Scott jumped into my hammock with me, it felt as though the hammock was going break at any moment and I felt super clostraphobic so he had to get out! But as he's so good at being the bull in a china shop he stood on my bamboo cup and broke it!!

Breakfast was served at 8am, noodles and veg. Not one for noodles in the morning but it was really good! After we had eaten the ranger and guide had their breakfast but wanted to share with us, round 2! Rice and catfish cooked in leaves marinated of course; and fish cooked in bamboo.
I couldn't stomach it, it was all still on the bones and the heads were in there aswell. You feel rude saying no but I couldn't face it! Scott on the other hand was getting stuck right in, where has this person come from!? He was trying catfish and pulling bones out from his teeth, and he actually liked it!

We packed camp up and headed off on our trek back to some sort of civilisation at about 9.30am. I was feeling a little light headed and dizzy, I'm not sure if it's sleeping in a hammock and swinging about all night.

Today's walk was hard, there was a lot of walking up and down steep hills. More forestry than anything. There were farmers chopping down magnolia wood everywhere. Forget the DFS sales, we need to get our butts to Cambodia! This stuff is cheap over here, and there's hell of a lot of it!
We were walking through big leafy plants and the ranger was chopping them down, lots of trees about that are burnt. We stopped at one and there was a sort of shelf in the tree where people had been burning it, the sap that this certain type of tree produces is flammable. He used his lighter to burn a piece of wood that had broken off and within no time the flames were really high going up the tree, to put it out he used the leafy branches he chopped off to put it out!
I'm not sure why they set the trees on fire like this, whether it's to keep warm when the farmers are out hunting in the nights, I don't know.
After another hour or so we got to some little villages in the middle of nowhere, walking through cashew nut farms. They grow with fruits on the end of them, of course we are in the wilderness so we were offered the fruits. Your just supposed the break the skin and suck the juice out of them.
The yellow one was really furry;
The red one was very perfume scented;
The pink one was really sweet and tasty!
They have a very acquired taste and that's why they don't sell them at the shops, but I think it's a bit of a waste, they could make a little bit of money on them. The cashew nut farms are everywhere, so I think the locals just share because our guide was picking the fruits off the trees and they had cashews attached to them, pretty sure a farmer at home would be pissed if he seen you picking his nuts off a tree!

Walking passed another village, we could hear loud 'dongs' and traditional music playing. They were having a sacrifice of a cow, found out that when they sacrifice an animal they don't just do a prey, dance around it and kill it straight away. They chop it's legs off and then it's tail and ears, basically animal cruelty because the animal is crying and in pain, bleeding to death. The last thing the take out of the animal is the heart. It's so cruel!!
Quickly shuffling away from the village not to see the sacrifice, we reached a really steep hill going down, which only meant we had to go up a steep hill on the other side! It was a killer, today I needed my asthma pump. Whoops!
Our guide just walked into someone's hut and grabbed some rare sugar cane to give to us to eat, they go in each other's homes and take things? He didn't seem to know the guy that kept coming back and forth there to drop bags of stuff off there, and I'm guessing it's his house?!
I'm glad he did get it us though, it was so tasty and we needed some sugar to build our energy up for the next bit of the trek! We had to peel back the skin, it was like a bamboo stick but purple and you couldn't chew and swallow the cane, you just had to suck the sugar juice out of it. We're getting awful adventurous on this trip!

Set off again and spotted a bright green snake in the trees, he was only skinny but was really long. It was munching on a mini lizard, cool to see a wild snake!
Thankfully we were only around the corner from the ranger's village where we were having lunch. It is so hot today and we were absolutely shattered. Covered head to toe in dust, the brown dirt was everywhere because it is so fine it blows in the air so it's all over you, your eating it and your blowing it out of your nose! Yuk.

They put out a thatched mat for us to sit on, I could have fallen asleep on there. It's so quiet and peaceful. The kids were loving life jumping rope, only I think it was a vine from a tree. Simple things make them happy, just shows you don't need much to have fun. Or to even live, these people live off the land entirely! The only money they get is if the man (our ranger) goes out and does a trip he gets probably $5-10 which will pay for spices and ingredients like salt and pepper. It was pretty cool to see! They're better than highly trained marines or Rambo. He's the Cambodian Mogli!

For lunch we had morning glory with beef which was delicious! Of course they then brought out the squirrel... We tried it, i had bone or grissel so it wasn't great, it was super spicy though, they put so many chillis on it!
If I haven't experience Cambodian culture these passed two days then I don't know what is. Eating things I never thought I would put near my mouth, I'll never look at a squirrel in the park the same again!

We got even more dirty going back to the hotel on the back of the pick up truck, the dirt roads seemed to have sand tornados on them, there was dirt everywhere, we couldn't see anything.
We checked in at the hotel after being dropped off, we scrubbed about 2-3 times in the shower, I left the shampoo on my hair for at least ten minutes. The shower was awesome! We redecorated the black and white shower room to brown mud though. Haha!

We tried to nap but Scott's show box movies were working so we watched 'taken 3' and 'American sniper' whoops!
We all went for food about 7. We all had bags under our eyes. So tired but loved the experience we had! We played doubles in pool. Scott has lost his touch! I played on my own basically. He kept missing the blinking balls! We one by luck (best of three) because when mike potted the black he miraculously potted the white aswell! Haha.