The Capital City!

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Well from battambang we arrived in Phnom Penh. Not to much to say about Phnom Penh. We mainly just explored the city the first day and got used to the surroundings. The backpacker area in Phnom Penh is really nice. We got a hotel right on the lake. Our room was apparently stayed in by Angilina Jolie the actress so that is why it was the most expensive room at 8$. The sunset from the patio was beautiful! We met another guy from BC that was also staying in our hotel. It was also the first Canadian we had met so far travelling.

The second day we woke up early and headed to the killing fields of Phnom Penh. It was crazy walking through there. There were mass graves of women and children that held up to 800 bodies. There was also areas where bones and people were buried and the bones and the clothes the people were wearing when they were killed were all coming up from underground. It was a very sad place. After the Killing fields we went to the S-21 genocide museum. It was where all the people were tortured and stored in all the prison cells that were made. This museum was originally a school before it became a torture hall and holding cells. There were many different rooms with the torture beds with the original stuff that was used to kill the people. There was also pictures of the ways they were tortured and of all the people who were tortured. Our time in Phnom Penh was really hard on the heart. We are returning to Phnom Penh for one more day after our trip to the beach in Sihanoukville! Pictures are coming soon!

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Photos

Our lakefront hotel!
The sunsets were amazing

Elephants in the big city!
Not only were there soo many bikes and cars with no traffic control..there were also elephants and monkeys!

The killing fields
there were thousands of skulls in this memorial amd all over the fields.

The genocide museum
This one one of the many different torture rooms..very sad.

The genocide museum
There were thousands of pictures of all the people that were killed and tortured here. it filled about 3 floors and 7 rooms on each floor.

monkey hill!
Right in the middle of Phnom Penh

Comments

[Ocean Me]

Adoption
Are you gonna do what Angelina did... bring home a new A-babe? LOL OMG I would be an AG-Nana to and AG-Babe! Too funny!

[Jazzermine]

YES!
I really really want to! they are sooo cute and need a good home.. it is sad to see all the kids here that need a better life

[John]

Lakefront hotel Phnom Penh
Hi Jazzermine My partner and I are travelling through PP in early April and trying to arrange accommodation. The lakefront hotel looks OK. Any negatives to it? What is the name?