Fortune Hotel Phnom Penh

... Rouge, headed by Pol Pot, took over the Cambodian Government in the 70s. Pol Pot was a Marxist who decided that Cambodia needed to back to the YearZero. And do this by pretty much wiping out anything and everything 'developed'. I find it hard to explain as I don't fully understand it myself, but essentially he gathered up all the countries peasants and set about murdering all the countries intellectuals. He tore families apart as he saw that family bonds were the strongest
bonds, so ...

... are common problems found in poor communities, so you can never be certain that they will use money or donations for the best.
I wasn't sure whether David's methods were the best in the long term, after all its not good for these people to depend on food hand outs (for example, what if one day, say David was to become ill and it stopped?) But, for now it seemed the visits were hugely appreciated and it was an amazing experience for us.
'If nothing else', David ...

... have a smile on their face. If I could sum Cambodia in 3 words they would be tragic, remarkable and breath taking.

Next 3 days we have booked ourselves on a cruise (I use that turn very very loosely) from Phnom Penh to Ho Chi Min City, formally known as Saigon, via the Mekong Delta. We are pretty excited for that even if it is a 6:30am start. We will see you all again when we get to an Internet Café in Saigon – a way cooler name than Ho Chi Min City.

... things to see.

The first day in Phnom Penh I walked the city sights, spending most of the time dodging traffic. There are as many mopeds as Hanoi, but with the added challenge of dodging the big 4x4s and tuktuk drivers who seem to forget their tuktuk is a good foot wider at the back than their bike is. There's not much to see in terms of 'sights' in the city, it's mostly markets and moped repair shops.

There is, however, the harrowing S-21 ...

... that you could pay to shoot... or throw.

We pulled into a gate and got a nod from some sort of military personnel. We drove in and came to a collection of buildings and backed up to the back door of one. Out they hauled several grenade launchers, 3 grenades intended to go on an RPG, an RPG, an AK-47, an M-60, and 2 bags full of ammo and grenades. That’s when things started to get real. I had been reeling through different scenarios in my mind on how this might all go down ...

... leaving to study and find jobs in nearby Phnom Penh which contributes to the large percentage of human trafficking from the area, and businesses and schools are directly effected by the rain and rice harvests so that many are closed sporadically and without warning as people take to the fields.
And yet despite those reasons, or maybe even for those reasons, there is a small expat community of about ten people in town, not what I was expecting. I was warned by the previous ...

... 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 ...

The next morning we took the bus to Phnom Penh and we walked around for ages looking for a guesthouse. After that we went to put our passports into the Laos embassy for our visa but the dim wits we are didnt figure out they dont open late on Fridays and not open over the weekend so we were stuck in this not so nice city for a few days. That night We then went out to meet Selina and her tour group for a while but Nat was ...

... much trade.

The Killing Fields – Choeung Ek
We took a Tuk-Tuk to Choeung Ek, one of the Killing Fields where thousands of Cambodians were executed by the Khmer Rouge. It’s a small site, in amongst the paddy fields, about 15km out of the city.

The site is now a serene memorial to the dead with neatly laid out gravel paths & shady trees. The first thing you see is a commemorative Stupa, a monument to the ...

... britanics que no per intentar aprofitar els recursos naturals i contribuir al desenvolupament social i economic de la regio.

La majoria de turistes de pas per Phnom Penh visiten el centre de detencio S-21 i els camps de la mort a on es possible posar-se al dia de les atrocitats que es van cometre en aquest pais durant la decada dels 70. La visita val la pena encara que et regira l'estomac. Hi ha qui en fa fotos, jo ...