Pkd1 Guesthouse Phnom Penh

... of the hostel and into the sweaty, humid streets for a walk to the markets. These were never reached and we decided to stop for lunch instead. Before, during and after lunch, we became well-aquainted with a man selling sun-glasses for '$3? $3? You no want 3? I make it $2! $2 Ray Ban! $2!'
After lunch we began our endeavours inside the Royal palace. We went inside Throne room and the Silver Pagoda, as ...

... was really shy said that when he grew up he wanted to be a man and also a doctor. It was really the first time on this trip that I had properly interacted with locals and began to understood more about them because the rest of the time its just tuk tuk drivers and hostel owners.

Got the bus to Vietnam, border crossing was an experience as usual and they disappeared as with our passports for what felt like a lifetime! We ...

... in glass cases housed in a pagoda-liked building and a media presentation of the genocide under the Khmer Rogue.That's about all you get after half an hour journey through a pallid and charmless landscape.

It's a kind of anti-climax that killed your high expectation, expecting gruesome display of some of Pol Pot's handiwork. Toul Slang, right in the centre of town, is a better alternative.It has far better archive of the genocide than this place.

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... day, he would take us to the Genocide Museum, the Killing Fields 15 kms out of town, to Wat Phnom (pagoda in the middle of the city, at its highest point, a whopping 27 meters), the National Museum and the Royal Palace and Silver Pagoda.

Heng picked us up at 9:00 am and off we went. The Genocide Museum is in a school that was converted to Security 21 Prison, one of the worst in the country. There were hundreds then thousands of prisoners between 1975 ...

... room that showed the 14 victims that were found dead and chained to beds when the place was liberated by the UFNSK. They are now buried outside of the one of the buildings. Barbed wire was set around the balconies of the top floors to prevent suicide attempts. As I looked out over the double row of barbed wire fence, I grasped the bars of the window in one of the rooms, and tried to think what it must have been like to have sat in here with this being my one and last view of the outside ...

... community. My co-teacher, Sothin, also happens to be the newly promoted deputy director and told me within the first few days of being here that he does not have enough time to be my co-teacher and seeing as he does not even really teach classes anymore, I can understand why. He really is a nice guy and seems to be doing a lot at the school as far as administration goes, not to mention his English is fantastic after spending several months in England and ...

Well! We'll remember Phnom Penh for a few reasons, some good, some bad and some itchy!!

We arrived here in Phnom Penh after an 8 hour bus trip from Saigon and took a Tuk Tuk to the lakeside area which is a bit of a backpacker place. Got a room in Green Lake Guesthouse for $7 which seemed OK even though it had a bit of a hole in the roof but the drips were in the corner so we didn't mind too much! That turned out not to be the main problem with this room as we were ...

... still in pristine condition, leaving us to question the authenticity... still worth a visit though. We still got loads of photos even though you weren't supposed to take any.... Yep we are bad people....

The Royal Palace was a little too expensive to go into but yopu still got a pretty good appreciation from the outside.

The Genocide Museum was a pretty sombre place as it's where up to 27,000 cambodians were tortured and killed during ...

... When I have been to interviews, did they score my answers out of 5? Can the range of everything she/I said really be scored in an arbitrary number?

... plan. One of our thougts was to have food carts for the women, making crepes. So, we had to test market this. I spent two days making crepes from a food cart on the streets of Phnom Penh! It was pretty hilarious. I don't think I have been stared at our laughed at so much as when we (4 foreigners) pushed a food cart through the streets of the city! I definitely have a lot of respect for the women who do this all day every day!

I had 4th of July at the US Embassy. It was ...