Monday 5th August
Today was a big day with Maggie the household cat and mother of four rambunctious kittens heading to PPAWS for desexing. Though not particularly appreciative of the tuk tuk ride to the clinic, upon arriving at PPAWS Maggie received the highest level of care. PPAWS is an NGO that generously offers free desexing and vaccinations to animals and owners in need as well as visiting local Pagodas to help take care of animals. The skilled clinicians finished Maggies by early morning and proceeded to spay another 3 cats and perform an eye enucleation on a dog, with a bonus cherry eye surgery lesson thrown in for good measure, before pausing for a well eared lunch. Whilst the clinicians sat down for a shared lunch we head out to find some delicious amok, which is beginning to appear on high rotation in our diets. Collecting a somewhat groggy Maggie from the clinic we took her home and attempted to encourage some peaceful recovery.
Deciding to explore our own neighbourhood this evening, we head out through the university gates to wards a local fresh food market. The stalls were a joyful bustle with a range of vegetables, seafood and fruit and the roads a Tetris game of shoppers and bikes. We purchased rambutans and mangastiens, after some discussion over the correct tourist tax. We then sat down for dinner at a local restaurant whilst a very patient waiter deciphered our struggled communication of our dietary requirements before dishing us up a delicious meal of veggies and nam ngau soup (a delicious Khmer specialty that uses chicken and salt preserved lime).
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