Phnom Penh
Alright - two days already here in a very typical backpackers area. Lots of nice people and fun nights with playing "Maexchen".
We also visited the prison S21 and the Killing Fields, which is quite a saddening story though. It's only 30 yrs ago when history kinda repeated itself but the whole world was just watching ... Khmer Rouge invaded the country on April 17th 1975 and killed millions after torturing and trying to set up a communist state supported by China. One amazing fact is that after they marched into Phnom Peng the city was evacuated within 3 days into a ghost town - all people had to leave town in order to work on the fields in the counry side. One bowl of rice was the daily ration of food which turned the people soon into poor workers. Children were taken away from the families to get brainwashed and put months/yrs later back to their families so they could call on their own people if they were against the regime. Then theyall would get shot instantly. Also walking on the mass graves (Killing fields) where clothes are still get washed out by the rain and knowing that you are walking on dead bodies gave us the creeps.
At night the movie "Killing Fields" can be seen in restaurants - quite depressing.
We also had a fun shopping day at the Russian market: Abercrombie and Fitch, GAP, H&M, Hollister, Ralph Loren and Calvin Klein - to name just a few of them - can be seen here because they produce here in Cambodia.
Tomorrow we are supposed to travel on - Phu Quoc seems because of weather forecasts out of question. But nothing is for sure. So it might go directly to Ho Chi Minh (Saigon).
We also visited the prison S21 and the Killing Fields, which is quite a saddening story though. It's only 30 yrs ago when history kinda repeated itself but the whole world was just watching ... Khmer Rouge invaded the country on April 17th 1975 and killed millions after torturing and trying to set up a communist state supported by China. One amazing fact is that after they marched into Phnom Peng the city was evacuated within 3 days into a ghost town - all people had to leave town in order to work on the fields in the counry side. One bowl of rice was the daily ration of food which turned the people soon into poor workers. Children were taken away from the families to get brainwashed and put months/yrs later back to their families so they could call on their own people if they were against the regime. Then theyall would get shot instantly. Also walking on the mass graves (Killing fields) where clothes are still get washed out by the rain and knowing that you are walking on dead bodies gave us the creeps.
At night the movie "Killing Fields" can be seen in restaurants - quite depressing.
We also had a fun shopping day at the Russian market: Abercrombie and Fitch, GAP, H&M, Hollister, Ralph Loren and Calvin Klein - to name just a few of them - can be seen here because they produce here in Cambodia.
Tomorrow we are supposed to travel on - Phu Quoc seems because of weather forecasts out of question. But nothing is for sure. So it might go directly to Ho Chi Minh (Saigon).
beritfamily - 21. Jul, 16:55
