Riverside Hotel Phnom Penh

... amazing to behold even without the context of a Wat and a jungle-y backdrop. <br><br>Because we're only pretend tomb raiders, we made a stop to one of the many art stores nearby and purchased a twin pair of Apsara statues for our growing foreign collection. There made from an unknown stone though -- no, we didn't get ripped off, but we'll get all of our geologist family and friends to lick/snort/bite and rub up against the rock back home to get a quantitative ...

... therefore the chamber cannot be sealed. It was quite a day and we were tired after reading so much information and trying to comprehend the horrors.<br>Back at the hostel the promised spray and bed bug extermination had not happened to we left and got a room in another bug-free hostel!<br><br>Next day, after the awfulness of the Killing Fields and Tuol Sleng we were off the visit the other side of Cambodia - the Royal Palace. It was a totally serene and beautiful sanctuary ...

... encouraged to be a beggar. But I pushed my plate towards her the 3rd time she stopped by. She grabbed the whole plate in a flash, squatted on the ground right next to me and ate every last scrap, even spooned up tomato sauce by the mouth full. She did this in a matter of 30 seconds flat. The look on her face when she gave me back the plate was just so thankful. She looked like she hadn't washed in at least a week, hair all over her face, no shoes, ripped clothes and no parents in ...

... don't care about making money... you have to wake them up to pay for your food etc... a refreshing change! No cars on the island.... all you can hear is the fishermen's motorboats, animals, a few mopeds, some generators... and Roberto's guitar!<br>A bottle of whiskey here costs a pound.. cheaper than a bottle of coke to go with it...<br><br>So the next day (friday) I was up at 7am to cross the border to Cambodia.... I'd met and English couple, Paul and Jenny and 2 Finnish girls who were ...

... Ek Killing Fields. The Genocide Museum was at the sight of a former High School that had been turned into a prison and torture center for people imprisoned by the Khmer Rouge. Only 7 people out of 20,000+ people imprisoned at this particular prison survived. The Khmer Rouge carried out genocide against anyone it deemed an enemy of the state. This list was very broad and included anyone with an education. So if you were a doctor ...

... per night and stayed for one night.<br><br>I got the hotel to arrange a tux tux to take me to the Killing fields and the S-21 museum. It cost me $12 USD for the whole day hire of the tux tux driver, he took me to both places and waited for me. It was nice to see the city at the back of the tux tux, I felt I got a sense of what makes the city tick and it was also an eye opener. What I could not understand is how people act on the road, everyone is doing ...