The Queen Hotel Phnom Penh

... so teachers, authors, anyone with an education - even people who wore glasses - were executed, along with their families. Truly awful.<br><br>We walked down the pathway from the gate and ahead of us was a tall, white, hollow stupa, built to commemorate all of those who died, housing thousands of unearthed skulls on glass shelves, with a large pile of ragged clothing at the very bottom. Usually when you see skulls they're relatively ancient, and it was awful to think that these ...

... Auch das Fieber ging schnell weg aber ich bekam Durchfall und musste deshalb im Hostel bleiben. Deshalb besuchten wir die Denkmaeler die an die Schreckensherrschaft der roten Khmer unter Pol Pot (1975-78) erinnern getrennt. In dieser Zeit wurden alle Leute aus den Staedten vertrieben um einen Bauernstaat zu errichten. Insgesamt wurden in dieser kurzen Zeit wohl mind. 1 Mill. Menschen umgebracht. Heute ...

... enthousiast! Ik amuseerde me zodanig veel achterop op de moto dat ik soms spontaan luid begon te lachen van plezier en het afscheid viel ons na 5 dagen behoorlijk zwaar...<br>Ik keerde terug naar Bankok om administratieve paspoortproblemen op te lossen en 2 dagen later stak ik samen met 2 leuke kerels van Oostenrijk en een Mexicaan de grens over richting Siem Reap in Cambodja! Mateo de Mexicaan en mezelf reden per tuktuk (openbaar vervoer is hier immens slecht ...

... on the information and just feel disappointed and pessimistic, and really sad - we were sad - just no tears... I don't know really quite what I mean...<br><br>But it did make us reflect upon being in a country only a handful of years out of war, blighted by poverty and corruption, still covered with millions of landmines and unexploded munitions - and we felt that after having seen the rough, we should try and find the smooth, and help, if we could, with the smoothing...<br>

... The plainness of the buildings bely the horrible torture and suffering that went on there. There was no need to rush through so I took my time and walked slowly, making sure that I visited each of the rooms that I could (some were closed off) in each building...Starting on the first floor you come to the rooms that were seen by the Vietnamese photographers that accompanied the troops into the city. There were still bodies in the rooms and they took photos of them. These ...

... here to be tortured and killed. It is a chilling place to experience. You can walk through all of the rooms where people were kept and tortured - it is a chilling place to experience.<br><br>We ended our sight-seeing day by visiting the Museum which has many of the statues and objects removed from the Angkor temples. We were unable to take photos once inside, but one of the objects was a drum carved from solid rock which is thought to be from 2300 years old. The ...

... government called the khmer rouge for no reason between 1975-1979. at S-21 17,000 were tortured and then murdered in the killing fields. only seven survived. we met one of them at the museum. not sure how he could bear to be there after all that. <br><br>half an hour drive out to the killing fields where 300 people a night were blugeoned to death (to ...

... crickets on offer. I have also been offered snake on satay sticks, grasshoppers and one of the favourites everywhere seems to be limpets(or maybe snails) that have been sun-dried. There are vendors walking around all day in the hot sun with barrows full of them - salmonella waiting to happen.<br><br>We had an overnight stop in Kratie before heading up the Mekong River to Kao Pdao where an overnight homestay had been organized for us. One of the homes had been set up for our meals ...

... day when I realised how sunburned I was. With six months of suntan on the rest of me, my face was still several shades darker by the end of the journey.<br><br>Eventually, just when we all thought we would be burned to crisps, land became visible and we seemed to be rocketing towards it. We approached the shore and the throttle was disengaged as we cruised between floating shacks that comprised an entire village of Vietnamese people. Dozens of these buoyant wooden structures were ...