Good morning everyone :)
Bit behind on the blog as we've been having too much fun in the South Islands of Thailand, we've met some great people and got caught up in the partying in Koh Pangnan. We've arrived in Koh Tao and are starting our PADI open water diving course this afternoon so i'm excited :) it's also much more chilled here so we're having a break from the drink.
Phnom Penh
We had 3 nights booked here as in advance we booked a flight back into Bangkok as we needed the 30 day visa to go round the south islands, we arrived on Saturday the 16th Feb.
In that time we didn't do an awful lot so I won't bore you with the stories. The first night we got there we went out to a couple of gay bars, watched a drag show which was quite funny as they were Cambodians and then ended up in a club. We partied hard and didn't get home until 5am. Not going to say what Lee got up to that night but I'm certain you can probably guess lol.
I didn't take many photos in Phnom Penh, during the day we had a walk round the city which is really big actually, everything is really spaced out and we found it quite expensive.
There was a good night market that Lora and I found and we sat and ate Cambodian food on the floor with the locals.
The main thing we went there for except our flight back to Thailand was the Killing Fields.
This was heartbreaking, the Khmer Rouge which was a communist party made up of Cambodian people carried out mass genocide on their own people for a few years in the late 70's following the Cambodian Civil War. We arrived and paid 5 dollars to get in and got a headset to listen to the history. The tour lasted about 2 hours and we listened to first hand accounts of people who survived, and from one of the guards etc. It was very interesting but also heartbreaking when you heard what they did to the people.
I took some photos, there are pits everywhere which have been dug up and thousands of skeletons were found inside. Some of the graves have remained untouched and some are cornered off as the bones and clothing are coming to the surface.
17,000 men, women and children who were tortured in the nearby S-21 prison (which we didn't go to, too upsetting for us was the Killing Fields) were transported over to Cheung Ek to be killed.
That was about it for Phnom Penh... i'll update you soon with what we've been doing in Thailand, but for now i've put up the photos on facebook :)
Lots of love
Hannah xxxxxxxxxx
Bit behind on the blog as we've been having too much fun in the South Islands of Thailand, we've met some great people and got caught up in the partying in Koh Pangnan. We've arrived in Koh Tao and are starting our PADI open water diving course this afternoon so i'm excited :) it's also much more chilled here so we're having a break from the drink.
Phnom Penh
We had 3 nights booked here as in advance we booked a flight back into Bangkok as we needed the 30 day visa to go round the south islands, we arrived on Saturday the 16th Feb.
In that time we didn't do an awful lot so I won't bore you with the stories. The first night we got there we went out to a couple of gay bars, watched a drag show which was quite funny as they were Cambodians and then ended up in a club. We partied hard and didn't get home until 5am. Not going to say what Lee got up to that night but I'm certain you can probably guess lol.
I didn't take many photos in Phnom Penh, during the day we had a walk round the city which is really big actually, everything is really spaced out and we found it quite expensive.
There was a good night market that Lora and I found and we sat and ate Cambodian food on the floor with the locals.
The main thing we went there for except our flight back to Thailand was the Killing Fields.
This was heartbreaking, the Khmer Rouge which was a communist party made up of Cambodian people carried out mass genocide on their own people for a few years in the late 70's following the Cambodian Civil War. We arrived and paid 5 dollars to get in and got a headset to listen to the history. The tour lasted about 2 hours and we listened to first hand accounts of people who survived, and from one of the guards etc. It was very interesting but also heartbreaking when you heard what they did to the people.
I took some photos, there are pits everywhere which have been dug up and thousands of skeletons were found inside. Some of the graves have remained untouched and some are cornered off as the bones and clothing are coming to the surface.17,000 men, women and children who were tortured in the nearby S-21 prison (which we didn't go to, too upsetting for us was the Killing Fields) were transported over to Cheung Ek to be killed.
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| This is a killing tree, the guards used this tree to hit the prisoners heads against it to kill them before pushing them into a big pit which hundreds of other dead bodies. |
Inside the Buddhist stupa are around 5,000 skulls and other bones from the
graves and are on 13 levels right to the very top of the building.
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| You can see how they were killed by looking at their skulls and they were arranged in order in the Buddhist Stupa. |
Lots of love
Hannah xxxxxxxxxx
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