Siem Reap to Phnom Penh

Our 7 hour bus trip from Siem Reap to Phnom Penh was in a very comfortable bus, complete with complimentary movies, a croissant and bottle of water. Plus a guy who was on board to look after us, and when he made announcements on the bus PA system, he had a huge echo effect on, and he sounded like God making his announcements from heaven!

Here we went to the Grand Palace - this pic is in the palace grounds:

Then we went to the Killing Fields - very moving and an emotional visit....hard to fathom that a fellow Cambodian could conspire to wipe out 3 million of his fellow Cambodians in 4 years during the mid to late 70's in a bid to create a new society to his liking. A very nasty man, was Pol Pot and his Khmer Rouge, and for some inexplicable reason, the West did not bring him to account for his atrocities until 20 years after the event - he just continued to lead an ordinary life in the country....unbelievable....

Also visit a prison S21 where out of 7000 prisoners that were captured and tortured there ( and this was just one of many such prisons), only 7 survived, and we met one who was selling his book about his life etc.

Lyn was so emotionally overcome by these places that she could not bring herself to take any photos.

Back to the hotel to reflect on the day's outing.......similar emotions to our visit to Auschwitz visit a couple of Years ago.