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April 21st 2013

Published: April 26th 2013

I am eating fish cakes shaped like Angry Birds and deep-fried dumplings with my friend CJ at the night market in Phnom Penh. In an effort to get acquainted with the city, we’re trying to have dinner in a most Khmer way, sitting on a mat. Around us, families and young people are enjoying the evening straight out of work and school. A young woman sings on a stage nearby, her rendition of a Khmer p... Read Full Entry

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Jay Exiomo

JayExiomo

Although he lived much of his toddler years abroad in the US and spent his early childhood roaming around the Philippines with his parents, Jay didn't really catch the travel bug until much later in 2006, when he was dragged to a microfinance conference in Thailand. He considers it his first true taste of travel, with his childhood already but a vague, distant memory. Something about being in a foreign place stirred his wanderlust, and his feet have constantly itched since. After graduating with a degree in Multimedia Arts, Jay worked as a news writer, then as a high school teacher. Presently,... full info

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Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum

More photos and information on top Khmer Rogue officials

Cheoung Ek Killing Fields

One of the stops in the site

Cheoung Ek Killing Fields

Walking along the lakeside, where thousands of prisoners were executed

Cheoung Ek Killing Fields

Some of the clothes found along with the victims' bodies

Cheoung Ek Killing Fields

A sign showing the barbarity of the Khmer Rogue, who showed no mercy to no one

Cheoung Ek Killing Fields

A tree that bore witness to the horrors

Cheoung Ek Killing Fields

Some of the victims' bone fragments

Cheoung Ek Killing Fields

Another tree that bore witness to the evil that took place

Cheoung Ek Killing Fields

A Buddhist memorial to the victims

Cheoung Ek Killing Fields

Skulls of some of the victims

Cheoung Ek Killing Fields

A museum showing more information on the Khmer Rogue and their brutal regime

Night Market

Young Khmers at the market just before evening arrives

Night Market

A food stall at the market

Night Market

My dinner

Night Market

Dinner, too

Night Market

Another food stall at the market

Night Market

Shopping time

Night Market

A performer during the weekend

Night Market

A performer during the weekend

Wat Botum Park

The park fountain in the afternoon

Wat Botum Park

Wat Botum in the east of the park

28th April 2013

Dancing Dave
David Hooper

SOLEMN REMINDER
The mention of the Killing Fields...your pictures. Reminds me of the feelings that are inescapable when in Cambodia...the gentleness and big smiles of the people concealing the massive sadness in all of their families by the systematic genocide by the Khmer Rouge.

28th April 2013

JayExiomo
Jay Exiomo

I agree.
And I think it's what makes Cambodians all the more admirable.

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