Cambodia

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This is now me playing a little catch up so this will be more of a brief picture review of Cambodia with a little commentary. I spent a week total in Cambodia with two nights, and one busy day in Phnom Penh. In that day I visited the Killing Fields, shooting range, S-21 museum and the Grand Palace. Let's just say it was not the most uplifting day but it was nice to finally visit a war remembrance museum where the U.S. was not the enemy. I must say before my visit I had very little knowledge on the Khmer Rouge and the genocide that occurred in Cambodia. I did pick up a very interesting book along the way if anyone is interested in learning a little bit more as well.

I then took off to Siem Reap to visit the Temples of Angkor and settle down for the Christmas holiday. I had a nice surprise when I reached my guest house in Siem Reap. Cliff, my Nova friend who lived above me in Japan came and found me at my Guest House so we ended up doing a day at the temples together which seemed fitting because we so many temples in Japan together as well.

I spent three days at Angkor viewing the temples, two of which were 12 hour days and the last just 4 hours for sunset. I was pretty templed out by the end of it. I had an excellent time though with a great group of people to spend Christmas Eve and Christmas day with. It was nice to settle in one place for a longer period of time, before this I had been jumping from place to place in one or two nights.

I took the bumpy, dusty bus ride back to Bangkok on the 26th so I could meet Sarah Carnahan!!!

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Photos

Angkor Wat
From a distance

In the Jungle
One of my favorite temples

Christmas Eve Dinner
Pizza...Is that traditional?

The Killing Fields
It is estimated between 1.5-3 million people were killed during the Khemer Rouge and Pol Pott's rule

Faces of the Victims
The educated were considered a threat to the society

A school turned into prison
Only 14 people survived this "prison"