If you don't have a deep study of Cambodia, you generally won't pay attention to this unexpected place.
Depart from Phnom Penh, avoid the road No.3 being renovated, drive along the road No.2 through Chajiao Province and enter Baima City.
Make a short stop in Baima City and find the local seafood market. The seafood here is dazzling. You can buy it now and eat it now, or you can buy it for processing in a nearby restaurant.
A row of hotels by the sea are all tall houses built by the sea. Outside the window is the sea, and several islands in the distance are faintly visible with green shadows.
Looking at the water, facing the wind, listening to the waves, the dishes ordered came up one by one.
Now the grilled squid dipped in lime spicy juice tastes sour and unique;
Boiled prawns order some soy sauce and shredded onion, which tastes sweet and delicious;
Stir-fried crab with green pepper is a local must-hot beef in a cold pot, saute shredded ginger and onion, add local green pepper, add washed and chopped crab, stir fry, add oyster sauce and collect juice over high fire. Locals like to add some sugar. If they like spicy food, adding local peppers when frying ginger and onion will make people eat more.
Have a rest after dinner. It takes only 20 minutes to drive from Baima to Kampot. On the way to the seaside, I also saw some swallow houses built by local people.
The whole house has no windows on all sides, only one mouth for swallows to enter and exit, and rows of small holes to exhaust. Because Jin Siyan likes wet and dark environment.
I used to think that Yanwu was used to raise swallows. Later, I learned that swallows can't be kept, and they can only provide a satisfactory environment for Jin Siyan artificially. By playing the recording of swallows' chirping, I can let people in Jin Siyan who like to live in groups pass by. When they hear their companions' chirping, they will enter the swallows' house to build their nests.
Yanwu will not collect the bird's nest immediately after it is built, but after the swallows grow up and fly away. So swallows will return to the same place again and again to lay eggs and have children. If Yanwu hasn't been taken away when you come back next time, Swallows will build an extra layer on it, and more and more bases will be built. This is the same as the habit of swallows in rural family halls.
When I arrived in Kampot, what impressed me the most was the landmark building of the city-the big durian.
Due to the unique geographical environment in Kampot, there is no typhoon all year round, and there is plenty of rain and sunshine. Geographical conditions and climate temperature are unique.
Pepper produced here ranks first in the world, with pungent smell and endless aftertaste, which is really the favorite of European elite diners.
The durian produced here is as sweet as the king of Maoshan, with lingering taste buds, and it is worthy of being the sacred product of durian gluttony.
In addition, there are mangosteen, rambutan, coconut and palm. . .
Kampot is a provincial capital, but it is actually smaller than many small towns in China.
There are no world-famous tourist attractions here, only the years left by French colonial history to French architecture are mottled;
Only the rows of buttonwood trees on the roadside suddenly spread silently;
Only the blue sky is reflected in the Haihe River, and the ripples are quiet and wide. . .
Throughout the town, there is always a trance of time stagnation, and there is a peace of half a year everywhere.
Foreigners with blue eyes can be seen everywhere in Phnom Penh. They are used to whispering to three or more people, or sitting quietly watching the sky with a cup of coffee and two bottles of beer.
If you take your partner, put aside your troubles and worldly affairs, and wander in the colorful shadows of trees by the Ganda River, and in the light smoke of coffee, beer, fruit and food, you will be worthy of a dream and a half-day leisure.