Another day, another exciting bus ride, this time to the capital, Phnom Phenh, a city with an interesting and tragic past. Our time in Phenom Phen was pretty intense, it’s really difficult to get away from the weighty history and you do feel like you should pay your respects in a place that has suffered so much. We visited the S21 Museum, or Tuol Sleng, the former High School that the Khmer Rouge had used as a prison and torture chambers. The Killing Fields, just outside the town, was another part of the city;s history we needed to see. The road out to the fields was a horrific rock and dirt track, made even worse by the suffocating heat. We had been advised to go by motorcycle rather than tuk tuk, and this was a tip
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