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A live tarantula climbs towards Matthew's neck. Matt, a
student from the University of Michigan, tasted the tarantula and said it was like eating crab legs.
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Cambodia facts:
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A young woman selling fried
tarantulas tries to convince our
students they're harmless.
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- 15 million people live in an area as big as Washington state.
- The capital city, Phnom Penh, is in the south and has a population of 2.2 million.
- In rural areas, only 40 percent of the population has access to electricity.
- 85 percent of people work on the land, mostly harvesting rice and raising water buffalo cattle, chicken and pigs. These animals usually live under people’s homes, which are built on stilts.
- The staple diet is rice and fish. The latter are caught during the fishing season between October and May and are cured to last throughout the year.
- Fried tarantulas and crickets and can be bought at open markets as snacks.
- 29 percent of the population lives below the poverty line.
- Many workers earn $2-3 per day.
- The literacy rate is 60 percent but in rural areas 75% of children have no access to school.
- The country’s main exports are rice (especially jasmine) and textiles.
- Mineral resources include rubies, sapphires and gold.
- The No. One industry is tourism, with 3 million visitors per year.
- $1 is worth 4,000 riel (twice as much as the Vietnamese dong).
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