Hotel Castle Phnom Penh

Over this weekend is the Water Festival where there are the dragon boat races with up to 50 people in each boat. I watched them practising on the Tonle Sap river. The boats were very colourful and each crew wore the same coloured T shirts.Unfortunately I would not be here for the actual racing. I was told that up to 1 million people come in ...

... general seeking out pregnant women to kill. The caption below his picture described how he admitted to all this, so I am looking forward to looking up his "confession." I don't claim to know very much about the Vietnam War, so reading what led up to it gave me a little information, although I never knew what was true and what was not. Other western tourists throughout the museum had the same ridiculous smirk walking around ...

23th Sept, Wednesday.<br><br>The one were we had a smooth bus ride, and a heavy rained out night in the City that was in the news..once ......but that´s it.<br><br>Well we had a very smooth drive in a beautiful country. As we actually planned to take a riverboat out of Siem reap, but after a lot of ill-advice about the boat we took the bus. The boat is still doing his thing, in fact it was the only transport out of Siem Reap maybe 4 years ago. But after ...

... are graceful, happy, beautiful people who have survived and vow to put the Khmer Rouge behind them.<br><br>Cambodia is so many things, a mixture of India and Vietnam but just hauntingly surviving - through the immense odds - they are survivors not victims:)<br><br>Onto Siem Reap tomorrow for some Angkor action:)))<br><br>Love <br><br>Charlise+

... faces, as all the prisoners were documented at the prison, there are also paintings an photos of the prisoners being tortured. Of the hundreds of thousands of people who went to the S21 prison only 7 lived, and in 2009 30 years later justice has still not been done.<br> <br>9th August 2009<br>Woke up at 7am had a pancake and caught a tuk tuk to the Russian Market, which thankfully no longer ...

... est asiatic. Jo no li trobo cap similaritat. Despres de passejar-me per les principals ciutats d'Indoxina (Vientiane, Hanoi, Saigon, Phnom Penh) tinc la sensacio que els francesos van fer una feina bastant raquitica com a colonitzadors. No van saber deixar cap llegat d'importancia del seu pas per aquesta zona, tan sols algun edifici colonial, alguna avinguda amb arbres i poca cosa mes. Sembla que hi fossin mes per fer la guitza ...

... Despite the horror stories, it's a really peaceful place now and it's strange to hear schoolchildren in the school next door laughing and playing when such awful things happened in the field right next to them. There is a massive statue (well, not a statue but it's a large memorial) containing hundreds of bones and skulls that were uncovered from the mass graves. Lots of people there were taking photos of all these awful things and I just think that's so ...

4 weeks into my 3 month stay in Cambodia and not sure I really have very much of a handle on the place as yet. Interesting for me to see a place from the perspective of a temporary resident rather than a short-time tourist. <br><br>I did not really think I had many preconceived ideas about the place but I admit I was expecting it to be more like Malaysia and Thailand with Reiki, reflexology and yoga places everywhere and opportunities for me to fill ...

... the word and hands out little leaflets to tourists with top tips - the key is not to give directly to kids as this gives them an incentive to stay on the streets and out of school.<br><br>Shocking numbers of children are forcefully employed in the sex trade. I've just finished an excellent book by Somaly Mam 'The road of lost innocence' &#8211; Somaly was sold several times to brothels and she now works extremely ...

... warnings about Laos, and we had found Laos to be a very easy country to travel in, with warm-hearted people and a refreshing lack of luxuries and the associated pretentions. In fact I was beginning to develop a theory about travel in South East Asia and the mindsets of some of the people who undertake it. It seems to me that the extreme ease of organisation and high standards of food and accommodation enjoyed by visitors to Thailand (and to a lesser extent Hong Kong, Singapore and ...