{"id":4457,"date":"2015-11-30T10:01:19","date_gmt":"2015-11-30T10:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/?p=4457"},"modified":"2026-05-12T08:27:44","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T07:27:44","slug":"exit-via-the-book-shop-in-siem-reap-airport-cambodia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/2015\/11\/30\/exit-via-the-book-shop-in-siem-reap-airport-cambodia\/","title":{"rendered":"Exit Via The Book Shop In Siem Reap Airport, Cambodia"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4458\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4458\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4458\" src=\"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/DSC06445-Call-to-prayer-Luang-Prabang-800x566.jpg\" alt=\"Call to prayer in Luang Prabang, Laos \" width=\"800\" height=\"566\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/DSC06445-Call-to-prayer-Luang-Prabang-800x566.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/DSC06445-Call-to-prayer-Luang-Prabang-800x566-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/DSC06445-Call-to-prayer-Luang-Prabang-800x566-768x543.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/DSC06445-Call-to-prayer-Luang-Prabang-800x566-600x425.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/DSC06445-Call-to-prayer-Luang-Prabang-800x566-150x106.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/DSC06445-Call-to-prayer-Luang-Prabang-800x566-96x68.jpg 96w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4458\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Call to prayer in Luang Prabang, Laos<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We spotted a Cambodian cookery book at Siem Reap airport: \u2018From Spiders To Water Lilies &#8211; Creative Cambodian Cooking\u2019. I didn\u2019t buy a copy, only because I\u2019m not sure if I would be able to source any fat spiders or fresh water lilies for the ingredients \u2026..<\/p>\n<p>And then it was all over, a whole month in Asia; Northern Thailand, Laos and Cambodia. We fed our curiosity. We sated our need for variety. We searched out different sights and then we laughed out loud on seeing the T-shirts with the honest comment on the front \u201cSame Same\u201d.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4459\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4459\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4459\" src=\"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/DSC06727-Crispy-deep-fried-tarantulas-for-sale-at-a-Siem-Reap-market-stall-800x572.jpg\" alt=\"Crispy deep fried tarantulas for sale at a Siem Reap market stall \" width=\"800\" height=\"572\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/DSC06727-Crispy-deep-fried-tarantulas-for-sale-at-a-Siem-Reap-market-stall-800x572.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/DSC06727-Crispy-deep-fried-tarantulas-for-sale-at-a-Siem-Reap-market-stall-800x572-300x215.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/DSC06727-Crispy-deep-fried-tarantulas-for-sale-at-a-Siem-Reap-market-stall-800x572-768x549.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/DSC06727-Crispy-deep-fried-tarantulas-for-sale-at-a-Siem-Reap-market-stall-800x572-600x429.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/DSC06727-Crispy-deep-fried-tarantulas-for-sale-at-a-Siem-Reap-market-stall-800x572-150x107.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/DSC06727-Crispy-deep-fried-tarantulas-for-sale-at-a-Siem-Reap-market-stall-800x572-96x69.jpg 96w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4459\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Crispy deep-fried tarantulas for sale at a Siem Reap market stall<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4460\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4460\" style=\"width: 558px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-4460\" src=\"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/DSC06425-Wat-Xieng-Thong-Luang-Prabang-595x800.jpg\" alt=\"Wat Xieng Thong in Luang Prabang, Laos \" width=\"558\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/DSC06425-Wat-Xieng-Thong-Luang-Prabang-595x800.jpg 595w, https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/DSC06425-Wat-Xieng-Thong-Luang-Prabang-595x800-223x300.jpg 223w, https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/DSC06425-Wat-Xieng-Thong-Luang-Prabang-595x800-446x600.jpg 446w, https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/DSC06425-Wat-Xieng-Thong-Luang-Prabang-595x800-335x450.jpg 335w, https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/DSC06425-Wat-Xieng-Thong-Luang-Prabang-595x800-71x96.jpg 71w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4460\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wat Xieng Thong in Luang Prabang, Laos<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; We spotted a Cambodian cookery book at Siem Reap airport: \u2018From Spiders To Water Lilies &#8211; Creative Cambodian Cooking\u2019. I didn\u2019t buy a copy, only because I\u2019m not sure if I would be able to source any fat spiders or fresh water lilies for the ingredients \u2026.. And then it was all over, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4460,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-snippets-of-asia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4457"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8246,"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4457\/revisions\/8246"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}