Phnom Penh
Back in Phnom Penh, which means "the hill of Penh" - a woman who found 4 statues washed up on the river side and started a temple which grew into the city.
Perhaps I didn't forbode menacingly enough in my last post. We've just been to see the killing fields, its almost a shame its the major tourist attraction in the city. Pol Pot, the head of the Khmer Rouge, tried to kill everyone in Cambodia. At least, anyone who had education, glasses, spoke a foreign language, was foreign, looked the wrong way etc. It was an attempt at an agrarian revolution -you know, go back to the good old days when people simply farmed the land and loved their king. 17,000 statistics were bludgeoned to death (to save bullets) on the killing fields of Choeng Elk, men woman and children. As one Cambodian lady in Sihanoukville was saying, they're now happy if they have food for the day.
On to Siem Reap ("siam (thailand) defeated"- nice subtle name for a town near the border) for Angkor Wat.
Perhaps I didn't forbode menacingly enough in my last post. We've just been to see the killing fields, its almost a shame its the major tourist attraction in the city. Pol Pot, the head of the Khmer Rouge, tried to kill everyone in Cambodia. At least, anyone who had education, glasses, spoke a foreign language, was foreign, looked the wrong way etc. It was an attempt at an agrarian revolution -you know, go back to the good old days when people simply farmed the land and loved their king. 17,000 statistics were bludgeoned to death (to save bullets) on the killing fields of Choeng Elk, men woman and children. As one Cambodian lady in Sihanoukville was saying, they're now happy if they have food for the day.
On to Siem Reap ("siam (thailand) defeated"- nice subtle name for a town near the border) for Angkor Wat.
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