Phenom Penh

After Seam Reap we headed to the capital Phenom Penh. I guess anybodies stay here as a tourist would be filled with ups and downs. The main attractions for tourists during the day - other than the palaces and temples that every city has - is the S21 museum where thousands of Cambodians were held captive, tortured and eventually killed, and the actually killing fields where hundreds of thousands of people were killed. So you can go and visit both places turning your stomach, and making you very depressed because the atrocities that took place from 1975-1979. And then you can spend the rest of your time shooting rocket launchers, AK 47s, M-16's, or whatever your heat desires. In the evening you recoup enjoying great affordable meals and drinking cheap beer in any one of many party scenes in the city. Well, we didn't too much partying, but Phenom Penh isn't nearly as depressing once you stop seeing the main tourist attractions!

Here is a picture from S21 in and old cell. They used to use the leg irons on the bed to lock the prisoner. It was originally a school, turned into a prison/detention center where they would question and torture somewhere in the neighborhood of 20 people a day by a number of gruesome methods shown throughout the museum.
Mass graves since uncovered at the killing fields.A stupa filled of some seventy thousand skulls uncovered from the mass graves. Another sad reality in Cambodia, a number of homeless people living on the street.And on the lighter side of life... Have to get at least 1 market shot in here! A little BBQ pig anyone?A place I should have visited. The local hair salon/barber.

There is no limit to the size/quantity or dimension of goods that a 100cc Honda can't move in this country. This picture is nothing compared to some of the stuff we have seen but haven't managed to get on camera. I saw a small lightweight trailer stacked as long and as high as the bus in this picture with wicker furniture that was being pulled by a 100cc motorbike. There was a train of 4 of them leaving Phenom Penh. You've got to love it!