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Published: June 24th 2006
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Killing Fields
Skulls from the dead victims Greeting from the sun!
Currently in Sihanoukville on the beach, just hanging out and getting a tan! The sun is SO STRONG here, even little pale me gets a tan after two hours in the shadow! I'm impressed lol!
The place we're staying at is litterary on the beach so it's just perfect! Everything is perfect except for the woman and children asking you 58times per day to buy stuff. But that's okay,it's what they do for a living anyways.. It just gets tough refusing alot of them after a while..
Phnom Pehn was absolutely fantastic! But oh so hot, Siem Reap was cold compared to Phnom Pehn! The tuktuks in PP are fucking crazy, I saw them outside the bus once we got there: like starving hawks. just ready to dig in and eat you alive! I actually had to tell them to back off and chill for a minute, i couldn't even get through to my luggage!
So this guy showed us a place,allright we went with him.. the place was okay enough but I reacted about all the people smoking marihuana there! We were just about the only people not smoking the shit.. anyways the funny part
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clothes which was found on the victims is, we noticed the next day that the stupid driver had taken us to a different place than he was supposed to take us to!! The place wasnt even in the books and everyone smoked, you could order a "happy pizza" or "happy shake"! Not my kind of thing and the smell of marihuana was really not my style but it was allright anyways.
We had one day to see stuff so we went to the Killing Fields first.
The place is like a giant cementary (or it was). cambodian bodies, children was being beaten up while they were tied up to a tree.. the dead people were just thrown into massgraves like worthless dolls. You can still see fragments of bones and clothing,sticking out of the sand in the ground.
It was interesting but at the same time horrible! Don't remember how many people got thrown down there but it was atleast several thousand. Inside they had a big closet with hundreds of skulls, you could see the cracks in their head, beaten to death and they were probably tortured too, as most of the teeth were gone. Horrible shit.. I can't even imagine living in such terror
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cambodian kids and feeling such fear as they must have done. It was so pretty around the place so I got this heaven/hell feeling, a perfect mix of both of them.
After that we went to S21, a former school that got changed into a prison for men, woman and children. I took alot of pictures from there.. It wasn't just the cells and the chains and the blood around the floor that made me think. Yeah you could actually still see the blood stain around both inside and outside. It was fences around the whole place, to keep desperate people from killing themself by jumping..
I was inside one of the cells just to feel what it was like, I felt claustrofobic just after a short while, so i can only imagine what they must have felt. Inside the big rooms people had put together a gallery of the people that died in the place, you could walk around and see all the faces for yourself.Most of the people were so sad but some were smiling, because they didn't know what was going to happen later on. Maybe they were still hoping to get out of S21 alive? After the
faces you saw the bodies in pictures, the blood and the dead eyes, the tools they used to torment people and stories from people that knew them.
I knew Cambodia had a rough story but I didn't know it was so bad so I was overwhelmed by everything, had to blink away tears in my eyes several times.. But it was interesting, I think it is good to see such, maybe more people realize just how good their life really is.
After that we went to the Royal Palace, which was allright enough.. got to see some of the royal stuff but there was so many restricted areas we weren't allowed to see so! And finally we went to a museum which had a collection of statues from ancient times, of Buddha and all of that and old swords and just stuff.
Left Phnom Pehn 7am the next day and jumped on a bus to Sihanoukville, that was the most pleasant ride ever actually, the roads are brand new and so comfortable! (I slept most of the ride as usual,thanx to my excellent blow-up-pillow) So here we are on the beach, enjoying the lazy days in the sun
and drinking rum and cola in the evenings. It must be something wrong with the booze, I had one big Lao beer and 4 (four!) rum&coke yesterday... and i was still sober. Strange stuff I tell you! Ohwell, I'll have another try tonight :D
So the next stop was originally Kanchanaburi, before I got real sick with flu.. So I decided to go back to Langkawi a couple of days before planned! As we are speaking, i'm in the airport in Phnom Pehn, flying to Bangkok, flying to Hat Yai, have to pay bloodmoney to get to the ferry in Satun in time and then over to Langkawi! yay what a day for sick me!
....Two days later:
Yeah this is a messy travelblog hehe! Back in Langkawi and it's good I tell you! Finally some real heat (35degrees) really missed all the people here so i'm just enjoying myself on the beach and at the reggaebar, and trying to get well from the flu! Have already written 3 blogs or something from this place, so I probably wont write much more before I go to Thailand for some islandhopping later (couple of weeks)
I hear it's a
white hell in oslo with all the snow? tehe drive carefully people!!
Ohwell time to sleep some before I head for the beach to doze off in the heat! mmmmmm it's a good life! Talk to you all later (gator jim) 😊
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Torkel
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Mmhh.. Lao beer.. *drool* S21 is a horrible, horrible place, but I think it's a valuable experience to have visited it.. it gives you (or at least it gave me) a new perspective on what human beings are actually capable of doing to eachother..