DV8 Bar and Guesthouse Phnom Penh

... The main building is dome shaped and built to be well ventilated so very cool. Unfortunately, it was closed for renovation.<br><br>4. Sorya Shopping Centre &#8211; air conditioned! Bliss&#8230; So we spent quite some time checking out the shops. We also had a great lunch here (noodle soup).<br><br>5. Art shops &#8211; we checked out the local art shops which were nice. <br><br>6. Independence Memorial &#8211; very ...

... but soon it drops maybe because we don't know what to say, maybe from a kind of shame about knowing for a split second what we as human beings are capable of at our worst. <br><br>The reason the Khmer Rouge killed entire families is because they feared retaliation in the future by the grown up children of those they murdered and threw into the dirt. How the mind twists...To understand the "need" to kill the babies before they retaliated, they must have known that ...

... at gruesome. <br><br> The border crossings were easy, just a lot of waiting around. We finally got to Phnom Penh just before sun down. I&#8217;ve gotta admit, I was little intimidated by Phnom Penh. I don&#8217;t really know what caused it, maybe the lawlessness of the place, or the knowledge of how it was only 10 years ago. Either way, I could feel a mildly electric vibe from the place. I haven&#8217;t felt that way since Morocco. The bus pulled over on Sihonouk St. to let the ...

... that lived here to be wary of working with the expats especially as most are working through religious organizations and that is a grey area for us Peace Corps volunteers. The nearest PCV to me is 40 minutes away and tends to keep to himself so I threw caution to the wind when I saw a 6' 2&#8221; barang (foreigner) biking down the street that looked more surprised to see me than I did of him. He introduced himself as Scott, a 34-year-old volunteer working with the ...

... a few inches deep and they thought it was the best idea EVER to just throw themselves onto the concrete and slide along it. Despite the un doubtful pain it must have caused and subsequent bruises the following day it was nevertheless causing unquestionable fun there and then. They then started to become cheeky and launch themselves into the crowd of 30-40 people who were also under the shelter causing us to get soaked which slightly detracted from the ...

... areas of Vietnam looked nice as the bus passed aluminum shack after shack, sometimes broken up by a bamboo shack or the mansion of some rich American. We got off in the bus in Phnom Penh to be swarmed by tuk-tuk drivers offering to take us anywhere we wanted. After being taken to our guesthouse, we ate a restaurant across the street and went to bed; we had travelled from 11pm the night before until 8pm when we ...

... gezien. Dus samen met 3 andere meisjes gingen we erheen, en jawel hoor ik heb ze gezien. Een stuk of 15 schat ik. Ze zijn niet echt spectaculair want ze springen niet echt uit het water. Maar tohc het besef dat je ze hebt gezien is geweldig. <br>De rest van de dagen heb ik veel gelezen en lekker gegeten en een beetje gewandeld. Op de dag voordat ik wegging kwam ik nog een meisje tegen waarmee ik in Muang Sing de trekking had gedaan dus dat was een leuk weerzien ...

... much trade.<br><br>The Killing Fields &#8211; Choeung Ek<br>We took a Tuk-Tuk to Choeung Ek, one of the Killing Fields where thousands of Cambodians were executed by the Khmer Rouge. It&#8217;s a small site, in amongst the paddy fields, about 15km out of the city. <br><br> The site is now a serene memorial to the dead with neatly laid out gravel paths &amp; shady trees. The first thing you see is a commemorative Stupa, a monument to the ...

... they have over a hundred, rescued from bile farms (again for Chinese medicine) and the restaurant trade (bear paw soup). A few of the bears were missing paws and it really showed the good work that the staff at Phnom Tamao do in saving animals. We considered volunteering here with the beers, but unfortunately we don't have a week to spare.<br> <br>There was a huge variety of wildlife here and the tour was really well set up, we felt ...

... and a fairly large hotel in the same style that now proclaimed itself to be 'Kep City Tax Office'. Kep City can't have more than a few hundred residents. Some of these have taken up home in the villas and could be seen squatting next to fires - the children shouting 'hello' at us. These villas, once the preserve of French movers and shakers, were later taken over by Khmer (Rouge) before they were gutted, their contents being sold to the Vietnamese during the famine of 1979-80. Looking at ...