Day 45

Phnom Penh Cat Café

Admittedly I'm not proud but I ended up waking up at 2pm after last night's late night. So now I have no time to go to the animal sanctuary as I had planned. New plan: I was hungry and thirsty and I needed somewhere to chill so I Googled cat cafés in Phnom Penh and was pleased to find 4 different choices. Not knowing what I was looking for, I picked the closest one and rode over.

I ended up paying way too much for a blueberry smoothie and they didn't really have any food so I just committed to being hungry and sneakily eating the snacks I had in my bag. Once I had ordered I had to chose a pair of socks to wear which was included with my entry fee. They were all cat based socks so I spent a while making sure I went for the right pair. I ended up with a brown pair with a cute little grey cat on it. After sanitising my hand I was allowed through the cat-lock (think airlock but with cats) and into the room. It was a fairly small room but that was okay as it meant the density of cats was even higher. I have no idea how many cats they had but they were all so cute. The first one I decided to stroke for a while I decided to call grub as he was a little grubby and wearing a little jacket.

I spent 4 or 5 hours in total, spent between stroking the cats, taking their picture, doing Duolingo, and writing my blog. When I left I was very hungry as I hadn't ate anything but a few biscuits all day so first priority was a good dinner. I searched online and found a cheap taco place that was highly rated. I ended up only getting one as enough to fill me up would have sent me over budget. As Riel is a closed currency I had to get rid of as much Riel and keep as much dollars as I could as I couldn't exchange Riel when I got to Vietnam tomorrow. The taco was gorgeous, with the filling piling up much larger than the mini tortilla, it was lucky I ate it without any spillage.

Still being hungry I headed to the night market to grab some noodles which were good as usual. Still having some money left over and fancying a dessert, I grabbed some ice cream. 3 littx1 qle scoops of chocolate, coconut, and tuti fruti served in a coconut. It was gorgeous except for some reason they put Iiteral sweetcorn as a topping which I very quickly took off. After that I headed to 7-11 to spend the rest of my money on some water and some snacks before heading back to go to bed as we were leaving early for Vietnam tomorrow.Read more