Arriving to Phnom Penh in Cambodia, opted for a tuk-tuk ride from the airport, weaving in and out of thousands of mopeds as we threaded our way through through the crazy, chaotic streets. Headed from the hotel to the nearby Royal Palace, admiring the impressive architecture, murals and gardens as dark clouds gathered overhead presaging another tropical storm.The next day headed to the Tuol Sleng museum, on the site of a former primary school used as a detention centre by the Khmer Rouge in the late 1970s, the site providing a powerful and sobering insight into the horrific regime and the suffering of the millions of victims. Also briefly met one of only 7 survivors found at the prison, who had written a book on his experiences. Afterwards headed on to the Killing Fields at Choung
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