Renakse Hotel Phnom Penh

... 8217;s a Daewoo. Of course!

We watched more beautiful scenery go around and then got to Phnom Penh. There is a beautiful side to this city, but also a dirty side. We disembarked from the bus, said goodbye to our tour friends and went in search of our hotel. We found it after going the wrong way down a street and being asked three hundred times if we "want tuk-tuk?" Room is nothing special, smells like cigarettes. We ...

... holes in the ground where the dead peoples were chucked. When you approach every hole you get a gut wrenching feeling that makes you so angry, at each pit there is a plaque on a post stating how many bodies were found in each one. Some were up o 400+. People were unloaded from a truck to a small administration compound where they would wait to die, but they had been told they would be ok and nothing would happen, next they are led to a pit of bodies, told to kneel and then hit ...

It's been a while and I've been on the move since my last entry. I left Nha Trang after just some basic beach days and a few nights out. I took a night bus down to Saigon (Ho Chi Minh) and arrived at around 6 a.m. Then, as usual it was a mad dash around the backpacking area to try and find a place to stay. I have been sharing rooms with a couple of English guys, and trying to find 3 bed rooms is sometimes difficult. After ...

... No social diseases.
No tuberculosis. No leprosy.

No kites. No marbles. No rubber bands.
No cookies. No popsicle. No candy.
No playing. No toys.
No lullabies.
No rest. No vacations.
No holidays. No weekends.
No games. No sports.
No staying up late.
No newspapers.

No radio. No TV.
No drawing. No painting.
No pets. No pictures.
No electricity. No lamp oil.
No clocks. No watches.

No hope. No life.
A ...

... Especially check it out if you haven't read any books with personal accounts of what happened.

Riverfront (dining by the Japanese Friendship Bridge)-- The book made it seem like you would be eating along the riverfront with beautiful views of the bridge so we were confused when the driver dropped us off at an area with no real river views. Despite the misunderstanding, we liked walking around and seeing all the nice restaurants and bars geared towards tourists ...

... awful bikes around. We check the all the temples and have few beers at sunset out side the main temple Angkor. Sure you have all seen pics of Angkor and yes it is amazing, but all you do need is one day to do it.Plus there are so many street kids selling stuff that it does your head in! Anyway ended doing about 35k that day which was really good fun and cycled back in the dark and got lost. Out that evening i think for few beers and "chilling". On Monday we pretty much just ...

... locally as Choeung Ek) is quite small and can easily be seen in an hour. For those of you less familiar with the history:

Before 1975, The Choeung Ek killing field was an orchard and Chinese cemetery. After overthrowing the Khmer Republic Regime in 1975, the Ultra Communist Khmer Rouge Regime (UCKRR) converted Choeung Ek into a killing center. It was part of the larger Security Prison called S-21. It is estimated that ...

... walls, each person looking terrified as they are photographed before (and sometimes clearly after) being tortured. In addition to these horrifying photographs are a number of paintings by one of the few survivors. These depict the day to day routine brutality meted out by the guards and are executed in graphic detail. One of them depicts guards dashing a babies brains out against a tree trunk whilst the mother is executed with farm instruments. Another shows the ...