Phnom Penh

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After leaving Miami I made a few quick stops around the west and northwest USA, and then flew over to Thailand for a few days before heading to Cambodia.

While in Cambodia, I spent about a week in Phnom Penh and then about 10 days in and around Siem Reap.

This pictures in this blog are in and around Phnom Penh.

Notable things in Phnom Penh are the Royal Palace, The Killing Fields, the S-21 prison camp, the National Museum (and the nightly performances there), and

About 2 million Cambodians were killed by their countrymen in the chaos that followed the Vietnam war:

“The Khmer Rouge regime arrested and eventually executed almost everyone suspected of connections with the former government or with foreign governments, as well as professionals and intellectuals. Ethnic Vietnamese, ethnic Thai, ethnic Chinese, ethnic Cham, Cambodian Christians, and the Buddhist monkhood were the demographic targets of persecution. As a result, Pol Potis sometimes described as "the Hitler of Cambodia" and "a genocidal tyrant.” See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_Fields

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