Pretty Phnom Penh Masking a Macabre Past
December 21st 2004 We took the bus from Siem Reap to Phnom Penh (the capital of Cambodia), the guidebook said it would take about 8 or 9 hours. After about 5 hours we came to what we thought was a provincial town. When we asked if we were stopping for a break we were promptly informed that we were in the centre of Phnom Penh!
It was not at all what we were expecting, normally in capital cities there are high rise o
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