Phnom Penh
Trip Start
Jan 23, 2008
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Trip End
Aug 21, 2008
Phnom Penh,
Cambodia
Monday, February 11, 2008
We got the early bus back to Phnom Penh about 4 hours. It wasn't a bad journey apart from twin 2 year old girls screaming the whole way!! Why their parents decided to take them to Cambodia i don't know. We left one of our rucksacks with our friends who are working in the city, they live on the outskirts and no tuk tuk drivers know where it is. It was a bit of a mission getting back to their house we ended up having a argument with the driver who thought we wanted to go to the Russian market. After a bit of tension and some shouting we arrived at their apartment, although the city is so hot it was nice to be back somewhere familiar. We got another tuk tuk back to the lake side and decided to stay at Happy's ( the same place we stayed last time), they even had the same prison cell room available. We dumped our stuff and got a moto to the Genocide Museum. It was a very strange place but i was really pleased that i went as at first i thought i didn't want to go. Walking round was very erie thinking that this place was full to people being tortured less than 30 years ago sent shivers down my spine. In some of the rooms they had photographs of all the prisoners, men women and children. It was a real eye opener into not only the people who were captured but the people doing the torturing.
That evening we said our goodbyes to our friends who still have another 2 months in the city and had a early night ready for our bus trip in the morning.
