February 5, 2007
Phnom Penh (Katy)
We only had one day in Phnom Penh so we decided to make the most of it. We hired a Tuk tuk,(a mo-ped with a trailer that has seats in it, for the day. Unfortunately all of the best sights in Phnom Penh are pretty depressing, but unmissable.
Fist we went to the Killing Fields, an area just outside the city where, during the Khmer Rouge Regime, thousands and thousands of people were taken to be killed. Many of them women and children and this was between 1970 to about 1975, not even that long ago.
There's a memorial there, a building full of skulls that were found in mass graves .
We also visited Tuol Seng S21, the school that was turned into a prison for people to be tourtured before they were sent to the Killing Field. All prisoners had their photographs taken when they were bought in so now there are thousands of black and white photos of people, many of them had already been tourtured....
The next morning we left Phnom Penh for Siem Rep, our present location
Posted by admins at February 5, 2007 9:36 AM