Day 20 travel from Phnom Penh to Siem Reap - Genocide museum, drive to Siem Reap
March 14th 2012 This was mainly a travel day, with the ~300 km drive from Phnom Penh to Siem Reap. We started the day with a quick visit to the Genocide museum in Phnom Pen (pretty disturbing), and then left the capital city for the temples of Siem Reap
On the way, we stopped at a pre-Angkor era temple complex Sambor Prei Kuk from the 9th century. While the details were not as well formed/developed as the Ang
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Most Cambodians consider themselves to be Khmers, whose Angkor Empire extended over much of Southeast Asia and reached its zenith between the 10th and 13th centuries. Subsequently, attacks by the Thai and Cham (from present-day Vietnam) weakened the ... ... read more 
