Boddhi Tree Del Gusto Phnom Penh

... people – to put that in to perspective, at the time that was around ¼ of the population - displaced all those from the city in to the country side and used them as slave labour. The idea was to create a classless society but like all communist ideas this didn’t work and all he achieved was to reverse the classes. After they were deposed in 1979 the civil war still raged until 1995!! As a result it is in the processes of rebuilding and has the ...

... museum on site and when we saw the guide on the way out, I told him"you were rude, very rude!" but people like him never get it. It just makes tourists like me not want to tip these people at all and to deal with them as little as possible. Grrrr!!! That was my second unpleasant mishap of the day.<br><br>On the way back to town, we asked our driver to stop at a mini mart so we can buy cookies for the street kids. He advised us against giving moneey to the ...

... here we are now in Cambodia&#8217;s capital, Phnom Penh, an interesting city with some pretty temples and pagodas and the disturbing Tuol Sleng Museus, an old school taken over by the Khmer Rouge security forces and turned into a security prison, where the most ferocious attrocities took place. It is a dive into the darkest side of humankind. <br><br>Tomorrow we are continuing our trip to the magnificent Angkor Temples... we're looking forward!<br><br><br>

... I would really love to come back and check out some NGO's....<br><br>Overall I'm really going to miss the lovely Cambodian people. Though Thailand has coined the term &#8220;the land of smiles&#8221; Cambodia really deserves it. I'm sure part of it is because SO many were murdered during the Pol Pot regime and now the average age in Cambodia is 16. The entire country is super young and fresh and eager to enjoy life and you can see this in the way the fathers caress ...

... the quickest way past was to say &#8220;maybe later&#8221;. This was a huge mistake, my first of the encounter, I had no interest in buying anything but it seemed to them I&#8217;d promised, so they followed me everywhere. At first I didn&#8217;t notice the huge Tarantula on one little girls shirt but when I did I jumped back, this was my second big mistake, as soon as she realised I was more than a little afraid, she followed me closer than ...

Right i think i left you guys when leaving south Africa with little money. anyway still no cards yet but should be with me by weekend and then sort out getting all my money back, anyway enough of the boring stuff, its only money.<br>Right flew from joburg to perth!! spent eight hours there to wait for flight to bangkok! though in perth i had to spend an hour at customs as they could not understand why i was going that way to Thailand, they must have thought i was a drug dealer something ...

... the hardships they face everyday.<br><br>War is not over In this country. It's a different enemy they face today with politicians and big conglomerates doing their usual business all in the name of progress and people being 'ushered' out of their homes for that suddenly viable piece of property....<br><br>May the gentle and compassionate Buddha always bless Cambodia, his kingdom of gentle people and smiling faces.

... there, even the coconut snail was yummy (however, I avoided so far googling pictures of it, since the chunks of meat we were served were gigantic&#8230;). We also had some kind of soup in a Khmer soup shop, where the soup already boiled in a pot at the table and you then get all kind of ingredients to add, however, one had to be careful what to eat, since the Khmer kitchen is a bit too much into serving intestines, not really my favorite (we told ourselves, that whenever we ...

... noise of thousands of squeaking bats above your head. The only worry is whether the ceiling will be strong enough to hold all that bat guano....<br><br>The next day, with slightly heavy hearts, we were taken to Phnom Penh's most depressing 'tourist attractions'. The Killing Fields and Tuol Sleng prison respectively. The Killing Fields, as they are now known, is an area originally called Choeung Ek some fifteen kilometres away from the city in a rural setting ...