Royal Residence Phnom Penh

... clothes. How they would execute the babies and children was horrific. As we walked around you could see parts of peoples bones in the ground along with clothing and teeth from the mass graves. And to think all of this happened only during the 70s.<br><br>On a brighter note, we also visited the Royal Palace which was really beautiful and also saw the Silver Pagoda. The pagoda has over 500 silver tiles on the floor, hence the name.<br><br>One thing that surprised me was the number ...

... Reap where the Temples around Angkor Wat await. We are on the midnight sleeper bus and will arrive there the next morning around 6 a.m. Depending on the amount of sleep it may be another full day of exploring temples or waiting until the next day after a proper sleep.<br> That's all for now, and for those that are still reading, my apologies for the length and hope to keep my entries shorter and more frequent in the future.<br>

... not the Niagara-Now period.?? But okay, it´s the time of the season...but it made us decide to book a ticket and take the next day bus and leave for Vietnam. So we did, bought 2 bus tickets ( in this case Rain-Tickets ) and tuk-tuked back to the guesthouse.<br>Had half a good night sleep, as someone in the House decided not to pay for the oldest profession in the world...." or maybe lousy service....who knows?" But okay, next morning said goodbye to ...

... have so much rubbish because the rubbish trucks will not pick up their rubbish &amp; so there is absolutely no way to get rid of it. The homes are made of tin &amp; tarps &amp; the many of the dirt floors have inches of water in them. It was much worse than the one we visited in Kamoing Cham &amp; shocked everyone. <br><br>It was to prepare us for the one that night that we ...

... Some children just look over and back at us with disbelief and then just raise a big smile and a hello. The children are all so cute and seem to be really well manered even in the city. However, its really tough seeing the amount of kids begging on the street and trying to sell you everything from water to bangles. Obviously you cant give to them all but when they follow you going 'hey pretty lady' or 'sir you wanna help me'it does pull on the heart strings ...

... were children played happily. It now lies barley untouched from how it was left in 1979, torture instruments and paintings of these abhorrently evil acts lie in full view for all the world to see, in the hope that the proof of this history will mean it will never happen again. Whole families were detained here for weeks/ months/ years, some dying but others being continually tortured into making false confessions. The brutality of it all is sick making.<br ...

... people were executed here. They have erected a monument to commemorate all the people that died here. Its a huge glass case filled with all the skulls, bones and clothes of the people they exhumed.<br><br> After this we went to the Royal Palace and Silver Pagoda (to cheer us up!) but maybe we are gettin too used to seeing all these beutiful temples and palaces because we didnt think it was ...

Hi everyone.<br><br>My travels through Cambodia have left me with a lot of mixed emotions. Initially, I arrived in Siem Reap, which is a really nice town, and serves as the base camp for the Temples of Angkor... which are absolutely unbelievable. But then, I traveled to Phnom Penh, the capital, and things changed dramatically. I unfortunately had to stay there for longer than expected, and had one of the worst experiences of my life. The city is filled ...

... hearted or squeamish.<br><br>The north wing was by far the most daunting. Its razor wire clad fascia pressed home the point that imprisonment within its four walls would be eternal. Each of its floor contained a different method of confinement for its in-mates, which seemed a little strange and must have meant the prison itself was forever changing during its two years of operation. <br><br><ul><li>Ground floor; small brick cubicles measuring ...

... was shunted by a Chzekoslovakian-made engine onto the train I thought had been out of service. A slow creaking noise, followed by a violent jerk, marked the beginning of our journey.<br><br>We have been on some pretty run-down train carriages so far on these travels but this one won the top prize hands down. Some of the iron legs on the seats had rusted away causing the benches to fall to the floor of the carriage where people squatted on them as though they were in beach chairs. Other ...