Heart of Darkness Phnom Penh

Today I was pleased to be able to have a lie in. Think it is the first one since I have been here!!

Today I was going to go to Choeung Ek, the site of The Killing Fields. Reese and Andy organise a tuk tuk and it takes about half an hour for us to get there.

You get given a set of headphones and an audio to listen to at various …

Well I get up late today - whoops! But surprisingly don't feel as bad as I am sure I should do!

I have to go to The Chocolate Shop to collect my order I placed for work earlier in the week. I wanted to get them something because I was leaving but didn't know what. I know that Sophak loves chocolate so thought I would do that.

The …

... who trained and equipped the Khmer Rouge) and finally their own people. Yet, where is the hatred here? I didn't find Phnom Pehn to be the 'Heart of Darkness', that place must truly be found in the hearts of those who carry out atrocities and who wage ...

... fast as we could and got the heck out of there. A Google search the next day confirmed our suspicions; legendary or not, Heart of Darkness was Phnom Pehn's main haunt for the gay population. Oops. Next time we'll stick to the 5-star hotel bar. Our ...

... huge dirty place. Few roads, lots of dirt tracks, plenty of beggars and one bar (or so we thought)- The Heart of Darkness. Lots of cheap vodka. Lots of cheap women touting for trade. We drank and fell over. Another city, another incoherent mess! But ...

... home. Mark had gone to meet his friend back at the pub so we arranged to meet him later at The Heart of Darkness club a Phnom Penh institution we were told, becoming the heart of the city's night life after 11pm. After the unforgettable night we ...

... . Also visited the S21 prison where thousands of people were held and tortured before being buried in mass graves. After a fairly depressing morning we checked out the local market. Tonight we're off to the Heart of Darkness nightclub. Hils ...

... 's zoom by below. It's a good, fun place to while away the time until the sun rises. But did I mention a second? The Heart of Darkness. Everything that the Riverhouse is not. A dark, seedy place located on 51, in a relatively dodgy area of town. ...

... is a little too hard-core for the Khmer people! Afterwards we went down to a very dodgy seedy bar called "Heart of Darkness". Everything about this place was wrong. The motos. The grotty westerners. The hookers. The BAD dance music. The general ...

... would stake out a live goat or cow to allow you to get the true effect of your arsenal.  It was Asia's 'Heart of Darkness' and the stories that were filed by journalists from the insides of the FCC (Foreign Correspondents Club) along the Mekong ...

... So anyway, Phnom Penh is pretty much just like any other SE Asian city. Last night we didn't quite make it to the Heart of Darkness nightclub, which is apparently THE place to go in Phnom Penh. We did get to the nightclub we just didn't quite make ...

... to see him in the first pub I went to.  He is training to be a flight attendant. I ended up at the Heart of Darkness where the people were very friendly - both foreigner and local.  It is quite amazing to have about 5 boucers shaking your ...