Dara Reangsey Hotel Phnom Penh

... their heads. <br><br>All these events happened about 30 years ago and there are millions of people living today who will have vivid memories of those times. Abut 15 kms was a place now named the Killing fields where people wer toaken to be killed. All aroung were mass graves and the the skulls and clothing from these is now on display in a glass structure in the middle. The broken skulls were clear to see. <br><br>

... not Thailand. It seems a lot more behind in terms of development and appearance. Phnom Penh is chaotic just like every other big city, but somewhat spread out and crowded with traffic. There are not just motorbikes here, there are SUV's and several cars which cause the traffic jams.<br> Last night a group of six of us went out to explore what we had read as a buzzing nightlife. It was buzzing alright, but with several sex ...

... again 200 Tuk-Tuk drivers shouting and screaming! " No,!! first things first " as we always do..... Blondy gets a map, I stay with the bags, together we smoke and see were we are. That´s our system and we like it! " Don´t interfere with that "! They can all come back when we are finished! But so they did...." it even looked more than 200..." We had our guesthouse pre-booked, knew were to go, so now we needed " A velly good plice fol Tuk-Tuk "!! But no ...

... we left for Phnom Pean which was great. We climbed the sacred mountain (large hill!) to get a view over the entire temple complex and then headed back to Angkor Wat for sunset. Coolest place I've watched a sunrise and sunset by far. Really enjoyed our two days at the temples as you can see!!! I said we were going to cycle but it was so bloody hot that we took the lazy way out and got a tuk tuk again. It was for the best as we probably would have collapsed in ...

We miss you Helena and co, so sorry that you couldn't come out. We have been thinking about and talking about you lots. Hope you're Dad is making a good recovery xx<br><br>Arriving into Phnom Penh from Kampot around midday after another interesting journey... the bridge was broken so we were delayed for a couple of hours... we checked in and went out to visit the Royal Palace and Silver Pagoda. Both interesting works of twentieth century Khmer architecture.<br><br ...

... people did a rather poor job in this colony. They were not able to leave behind any important legacy for the future generations except some tree-lined boulevards or some villas. It seems they were here more to annoy the British rather than to profit from the region's natural resources or contribute to the region's social and economical development.<br><br>Most of the tourists stopping in Phnom Penh end up visiting the same ...

... and educates. It also makes you respect the Cambodian people so much more, they lost about a quarter of their population to the Khmer Rouge (or a similar statistic, I forget), yet they are such lovely people and so happy to have people visiting their country.<br><br>On my final day in Phnom Penh I got a massage from a blind man at the Seeing Hands Massage Room. A surreal experience but he spoke English excellently (the Cambodians all speak excellent English ...

... on Phnom Penh traffic.<br><br>Joe, Australian sometimes-student sometimes-retail salesman, who was deceptively quiet but is discovering his inner party-beast.<br><br>Jennie, a smoggy from England, with an accent that you can&#8217;t help but copy. A sweetie.<br><br>Jenna, from Washington though she is studying in New York (or maybe that should be the other way around). 19 and ready for action.<br><br>Harriet, 18 year old from New Zealand, with ...

Yesterday we both got an introduction to the past one thousand years of Cambodian history. Today we would delve into something more current, in fact it only happened 32 years ago. Roughly 3 kilometres from the centre of town, lies one of the most grisly kept secrets from the Khmer Rouge reign. The infamous prison known as S-21 (santebal), created by Pol Pot and the Democratic Kampuchea Party in 1977. It became the heartbeat of the DK and claimed ...

... by selling us a bus ticket if we chose to go by train. Dire warnings were issued about the state of the carriages and the length of time it took to get anywhere. I looked in our guidebook and it said that, until very recently, the first two carriages of the train were designed to take the blast from mines laid on the tracks. If people wanted to travel on these carriages they could do so half-price or free of charge (on the second and first carriages respectively). These two carriages were ...