Happy Birthday to Meeeeeeeeeeeeee!

Trip Start Nov 25, 2004
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Trip End Jan 26, 2005


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Friday, January 28, 2005

Pnomh Penh is a great city (VERY HOT!)with magnificent palaces, street vendors selling every concievable item you can think of from yummy fruit shakes to spiders (Oh yes!) and a very sad history! We arrived on the 27th by boat and already we could see the difference in the landscape - very flat compared to the other countries we've been to with random palm trees scattered everywhere! We had quite a laidback time doing the sights and we stayed by the Boeng Kok Lake which is the heart of backpacker land with all the cheapo guesthouses having bars looking out onto the lake - so enjoyed an excellent birthday sunset here complete with birthday cakes and beer! Mmmmm!

We then spent a day going out to see the Killing Fields and visiting the Tuol Sleng Museum which was converted into a prison (or should we say torture/execution camp!) during Pol Pot's regime. Extremely sad...made all the more difficult due to the peaceful countryside setting of the killing fields and the fact that the museum looks pretty much like every school in Cambodia! Seeing the atrocities that went on is just heart-breaking. The bottom floor of the museum just has rows and rows of photographs of the people held there - only 7 survived. Enough said! We had dinner that evening in a restaurant called 'Friends' - which is abit similar to Jamie Oliver's restaurant in London where street kids are trained up to be chefs! The best food we've had - if you get a chance to go try the pumpkin soup and the crepes for dessert! Yummy! Even had a glass of chilled Chardonnay! Well we had to prolong my birthday as long as possible! We kept Paul's tummy happy as well when we found an indian with a set menu for $2 - happy days!!
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