Phnom Penh (capital of Cambodia)...a bustling city..we did find the array of bugs on sale, including spiders - they were not particularly appealing! We visited the Killing Fields (one of), they appeared pretty peaceful and tranquil. The clothes and bones protuding from the ground were very disturbing though. In all, 17000 people were brutally murdered here. 8000 skulls, many with grotesque gashes, are housed in the monument. Ruth has just finished a book 'First they killed my Father', which she said really brought home the killing on a personal level. A quarter of the Cambodian population were murdered in 4yrs. We then took the slow boat to Saigon via the Mekong Delta. It was amazing how much of the adjoining fields were flooded as far as the eye could see. Apparently it stays like this for
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