After thoroughly enjoying my time in Vietnam, I headed off on an eneventful bus ride to Phnom Penh, the capitol of Cambodia. The city suprised me by being a normal big city, and even more suprising, I learned from the people I was traveling with that there is more American food available in a Cambodian grocery store than in London. However, before I explain the places I visited in Phnom Penh, a brief history lesson on Cambodia might help explain the two main museums. After a civil war that ended in 1975, Cambodia suffered under the ultra-communist Khmer Rouge regime, which stayed in power until 1979. Under the leadership of the paranoid Pol Pot, the goal of the Khmer Rouge was to "turn the clock back to year zero" and instate a rural utopia consisting of
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