Phonom Penh - an emotional experience!

Phonom Penh seems poorer than both Vietnam and Loas. Is it there way of life? or are they actually more deprived than the other two countries i found myself thinking. We've been staying in a lovely guesthouse here that floats on the lake. Very relaxing, i think the hammocks might help! There are a string of chilled out rs near by which have been nice to chill out in (even tho me and Danielle have gone t-total for a week of detoxing!!)

We have visited the royal palace (which is very similar to the one in Bangkok if not a little more spacious!) and we went shooting and did the trip to the killing fields and s-21.

The killing fields and s-21 trip was very shocking and demonstrated how tragic things were here (not even 30 years ago!) I can not believe i was so nieve about all of this. until i came here i had no idea about Pol Pot and what he did. I feel like this is something we should be taught about in school. He's worse than Hitler!

The memorial towards the thousands of people he tortured was really striking and effective as it demonstrated to everyone just how intense the situation was (8,000 skulls in a glass cabinet - not even half of the body's killed here). I had a very emotional walk around the killing fields, reading about what had happened and seeing the exsuvated sites. About half way round I'd had enough and all i wanted to do was get out of the place. As i looked around for my quickest way out i saw a path which lead up to the memorial and then on to the exit. that would be the way to go....but looking down at the flour i was face with a situation i never thought id be in and really never want to again. Through the soil path were bits of clothes and bones poking up. There was also teeth on the surface i couldn't believe it! so the long way round it was. And when i shared my experience with the others i was informed that not all the bodies had been dug up yet only a small percentage so therefore we were walking around one huge grave. mi couldn't believe that they've made this site into a tourist attraction and have not finished exscuvating it Could you imagine this happening in England?