Phnom Penh Latte on the promenade and genocide Currently has 23 entries. |
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Vietnamese revolutionaries wave us goodbye It's fair to say that as Wendy and I left the really rather Westernised and comfy confines of .. | The sleek, modern and industrial looking Vietnamese border post | Wendy walking into Cambodia Just past the lorries is the Buddhist temple inspired border post. We are back in the land of .. |
Phnom Penh's grand promenade next to the mighty Mekong A great place for boat trips, posh coffee shops, Cambodian curries, bars, clubs, cash .. | The confluence of two rivers in PP is so big it's like your almost on the shore of a small sea. Like Luang Prabang in Laos, you can stand here in the heart of the city and on the other side of the .. | Wendy looking very unimpressed after I forced her to sit in a cafe whilst I had a latte. Cambodia may not have many tarmac roads but lattes it does have. After all, the army of UN and NGO .. |
The enormous Central Market in the buzzing centre of PP. | Inside the market Despite being a warren of electrical and clothes stalls the sheer enormity of the building .. | We found Doug again! After spending the whole of Vietnam with out our favourite Australian (he had been back to .. |
Naploean's house The old colonial masters, the French, decided to build this completely out of character .. | Kids looking at fish in the Royal Palace I am so over royal palaces now. | Says a lot about Cambodia |
The grand colonial railway station in central Phnom Penh The timetable is quite easy to remember - one train every two days at 6am. .. | Welcome to the Killing Fields. A birdhouse with bones in it. | The skulls of those victims found in this pleasant patch of green outside the city |
Clothing of the slaughtered | Where the ground undulates is where many bodies still lie | Clothes still in the ground |
Looks almost pleasant A former high school in the heart of the city. Until the mid-seventies. .. | Then it was taken over by the Khmer Rouge Political prisoners were detained here and tortured before being taken to the Killing Fields .. | The rules at Tuol Sleng The Khmer Rouge could get away with the brutality they inflicted here despite it being in Phnom .. |
Only seven prisoners survived Tuol Sleng. This child wasn't one of them. The Khmer Rouge photogrpahed and recorded everyone that passed through the centre. On their .. | This torture victim died on the 11th October 1977. The day I was born. They were just as methodical at recording deaths. Which means, today, there is a wealth of .. | |
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