Phnom Penh Cambodia

We arrived in Phnom Penh after a six hour coach journey from Vietman. It's a large and bustling city reminding us in some ways of Bangkok. We stayed along the river front in Sisowath Quay. One of the first differences we saw in the two countrys was the difference in street food, all the street food in vietnam looks totaly yummy, wether its noodles or cakes. However the street food in Cambodia seemed to be a different kind mostly creepy bugs! spiders (bigger than your hand), snakes on a stick, cockroches, frogs just about any bug you can think of all fried and coverd in chilli!! all the locals were tucking in!

Our second day in Phnom Pehn we took a tuk tuk rid to the killing fields, where the Khmer rouge slaughterd and killed over 17000 inocent cambodians between 1975 - 1980. It was horrific you can still see the clothes of people sticking out of the ground from the mass graves! neither women or children were spared and the skulls of 8000 of the victums are stacked high in a pagoda. Very shocking but intresting to learn more about the history. That afternoon we took a much nicer trip to the Royal palace, and national museum.

The following day was spent in the Tuol Sleng Museum, another stark reminder of the Kehmer rouge terror, where thousands of cambodiens were detained and toutured, you can still see the various torture intruments and photos of the victims as they lay dying. Shocking more are the photos pf all the people who were killed faces of young children among them! its such a awful history which killed off over 65% of the poplulation. Today you can see the lack of elderly or older Cambodiens, in fact you rarely see anyone over the age of 35!

We weren't too taken with the city of pehom penh once youv'e seen all the sights and markets theres very little to do and every where seemed a little seedy young beautiful cambodian women with middle aged western men! so we're of to Seim Reap a few days early! another 6 hours bus ride awaits us.

Love Gem & Mykal XX

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