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another humbling site at S-21

November 12th 2006
On April 17th, the year before I was born a guerilla army named the Khmer Rouge entered Phnom Penh. The country had been through years of civil war leading up to this point so its people took the arrival of Pol Pot's army as a new beginning and the start of peace. Like in our last stop in Saigon, the Americans had involved themselves so when the Khmer Rouge soldiers told the innocent people of Phn ... read more

Asia » Cambodia » South » Phnom Penh

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

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Remember folks 'Regret what you do, not what you don't' and with that thought we welcome you to our round the world travel blog. As our journey is now over we hope that some of our stories and adventures may help or inspire anybody else who is lucky enough to be currently in any of the locations we visited or planning to travel in the near future. Do we regret our trip ? .......... absolutely not it was the best year of both our lives and even though we are now back home and things have already started to fall back into exactly the same places they were before we left...... we will alway... full info

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