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"I was going to the worst place in the world and I didn't even know it yet. He was close. He was real close. I couldn't see him yet, but I could feel him. As if the boat were being sucked up the river and the water was flowing back into the jungle. Whatever was going to happen, it wasn't going to be the way they call it back in Nha Trang."
Ok, I'm not losing my mind or heavy into opium at the time of this writing. I'm only reciting quotes from a movie. If you don't know this movie, I am sorrowful for you but will give you a hint...it's from Apocolypse Now.
So, after taking 5 different boats and 3 different busses over two days, my journey up the Mekong River and crossing the Vietnam-Cambodia border was complete. It started early in the morning at the edge of a very poluted and fast moving Saigon River. John Wayne, our vietnamese tourguide, who yes, actually talked like John Wayne, but with a vietnamese accent, escorted us in a rather fast and quite comfortable motorboat to the mouth of the Mekong River. Along the way, we passed dozens
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July 23rd 2005 - Claire: A World Away
Your account of your travels really makes me feel like I've been there myself. It's utterly amazing to read about a place so different from here. And, yet, the burger joints and pizza places are seemingly everywhere! Thanks for sharing your adventures with us!
January 31st 2006 - markkelly27@hotmail.com:
i have traveled all over the world and never seen anything like phnom penh it is a drug fueled gun crazy place but the cambodia people the best in the world i meet a cam for one day but i was invitied to his sisters wedding the next and treated like a king i will certainly be back youre article is spot on
November 26th 2006 - B:
i've been there in cambodia last feb. its was amazing i never seen anything like cambodia i really love it.
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S21
A former high school classroom. Prisoners were shackled to the bed and tortured in this room, usually by electric shock or lashes with wire.
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The photograph on the wall was taken in 1979, on the day the prison was liberated. The man on the bed had been tortured to death.
Cells of S21
In the former classrooms, the Khmer Rouge built cells for the prisoners. Most were 3ft in width.
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The Khmer Rouge tortured and murdered young and old alike, from infants to the elderly -- although the middle-aged and elderly suffered the worst. Today, half the population of Cambodia is under the a... [more]
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July 23rd 2005 - Claire: A World Away
Your account of your travels really makes me feel like I've been there myself. It's utterly amazing to read about a place so different from here. And, yet, the burger joints and pizza places are seemingly everywhere! Thanks for sharing your adventures with us!
January 31st 2006 - markkelly27@hotmail.com:
i have traveled all over the world and never seen anything like phnom penh it is a drug fueled gun crazy place but the cambodia people the best in the world i meet a cam for one day but i was invitied to his sisters wedding the next and treated like a king i will certainly be back youre article is spot on
November 26th 2006 - B:
i've been there in cambodia last feb. its was amazing i never seen anything like cambodia i really love it.
thnx
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