Goldiana Hotel Phnom Penh

... home in the early hours- Everyone got to see the worm lots, and we did this pressup game where if you said ít's mine'you had to do pressups- I have two very bruised knees and sore elbows!! Didn't have to leave till 12 the next day fortunately! I decided it was a good idea on the journey to try a deep fried cricket- and was the only one suprise suprise!! I was nearly sick, so no one else wanted to try- I don't recommend it!

Me and Jen stayed in ...

... and over 15,000 people died here. In the years since the Khmer Rouge were driven from power, researchers have exhumed… Over 8,000 skulls and hundreds of other bones are kept in a large memorial. We joined a guided tour of the field, but despite the terrible stories we were told, the dozens of open pits in the ground, and the presence of all the skulls, we knew that we could only dimly grasp the scale of the atrocities at Choeng Ek.

On Thursday, we visited the ...

... her fuse was a little short. Somehow the guy started abusing me!!! "You European *******".... my response...... "Ozzie ********"..... Needless to say we got outta there pretty quick as it was going to turn physical!! The other tuk tuk drivers were holding him back!! Not a good introduction to Phnom Penh......

After the nice ride through the city we found our destination......We met a Kiwi we shared a taxi with who was travelling on his own ...

The favourite exercise and leisure activity of the locals (at least for my students at CWF) seems to be going to Olympic Stadium to jog, play volleyball, soccer, swim and ..... dance. Although it seems watching others dance is more the style of many.

There is definitely a party atmosphere - lots of food and drink vendors and competing ...

... a movie about S-21 and the man I had just seen testify was in the film and taking someone around Tuol Sleng to tell them what everything was for. I cant imagine giving a tour of a place where I was locked up. I walked back to the office a little sadder, today was just a really intense day. I needed to work on some work and the office had internet I could use.

After getting no work done because I could not focus, I went to an organization in Phnom Penh called ...

This was certainly a new and different part of Asia for me - a total immersion into the contrasting modern and freshness of the city of Phnom Penh and it's tragic past. Both seemed rather disjointed from one another. We were first greeted by a billion (this is slightly exagerated, but not far off in the numbers) tuk-tuk drivers descending upon our van when we stopped by the side of a random dark-alley road. After several billion persistent ...

... way to see the temples. There was a plethora of temples to choose from so our tuktuk driver recommended us the top 5 which took the whole day to explore… (we also visited the famous sights were Tomb Raider was shot, hard to believe how Angelina looked hot on this sticky climate…).. One temple was half covered by vegetation and the romantic jungle setting made it our top-favorite, together with the `temple of the woman` which we visited early next morning to beat the ...