Morakat Hotel Phnom Penh

... I had a really good Khmer chicken curry and went out with a win as I dismantled Terry in the last game of the night. <br><br> The next day was tourist site day. Luke and I struck out at 9 to the Killing Fields with Mr. Camera. The ride took a while, but was beautiful as it was through the Cambodian country side. The Killing Fields are one of many places that the Khmer Rouge used to bury mass graves of people. There is a temple dedicated to all of the people that lost their lives their ...

... First it was<br>a high school, then it became a gruesome security prison during the<br>Pol Pot regime, now it is a museum which tells the story of the<br>Cambodian genocide. Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge overthrew the<br>government in 1975. For four years they worked to create their<br>twisted version of a classless agrarian society by murdering<br>urbanites and anyone with an education and forcing the rest of the<br>people to work as slaves in the rice fields. Millions were ...

... to obtain our visas for whichever one we chose before we left Phnom Penh. Unfortunately, visas took two days to obtain; it was Friday; and embassies are closed on weekends. Even if we dropped off our passports at either embassy, we couldn&#8217;t get them back until Monday. We were stuck. Unable to make further headway with regard to our travel plans, we decided to visit the last item on our list of things to see in Phnom Penh: S-21, the Khmer Rouge prison. Much like Choeng Ek ...

... find a cafe that has a movie room and are quite willing to let us watch what we want. So choosing from hundreds (of 'legalish' DVDs) we end up watching 'The Hangover' with some girls from Surrey, which apparently is in England. The film was good, but not as good as I hoped - but then again Im fussy. <br><br>07/09 - Today we did the sights to do with Cambodia's recent history - that is the Khmer Rouge regime. Starting off early at the main killing field just south of ...

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 ...

... her name which had 14 letters.</li><li style="">What? What is this? She can&#8217;t speak English?</li><li style="">Why has she come here?</li><li style="">This was another women that was given the chance because CRDT wanted to be fair to the genders, and if Mandarin hadn&#8217;t of suggested it, they wouldn&#8217;t even have bothered.</li><li style="">I can&#8217;t believe a more qualified person was told not to come to ...

... due to the complete delight on the people faces. <br>Secondly it is very hard, as the smell is overpowering, and as you leave you consider the fact that they cannot, and that if nobody else volunteers that week or month or ever then they will not receive any more food, etc. <br>We took along the 2 Khmer girls we met to show them. To our surprise we spoke with several locals who new of the dump but had no idea that people worked there &amp; in such horrid ...

... night's lack-of that was responsible,' he ruminated.<br>The National Museum, our first port of call, was all about a collection of Khmer art and civilization: sculptures, statues, other memorabilia. Apart from the open interior which looked quite pleasant: neat and straight hedges lining square ponds and a triangular pagoda with a religious statue in the middle, neat thoroughfares, the place was deadly dull apart from a couple of interesting things ...

... stops we bought fruit and more water.<br>When I wasn&#8217;t dosing it was nice seeing the Cambodian countryside &#8211; it&#8217;s so lush and green absolutely beautiful. I don&#8217;t quite know what to make of it after all it&#8217;s a very poor country but looking at the countryside it doesn&#8217;t look poor at all &#8211; I suppose when you think of a poor country you think of dry barren landscapes &#8211; well I do.<br ...

... 20,000 victims met their demise here after extensive torture and interrogation. The killing fields became public knowledge only after the liberation of Cambodia in 1979. Eighty-six of 129 mass graves were excavated and a large memorial containing skulls of the victims was erected in honor of the countless who were murdered country-wide under the UCKRR's rule. <br><br>It's remarkable to think that this happened in my lifetime.