Bus journey was interesting. Bus driver realllly liked beeping his horn..I'm talking every 40 seconds. I counted and it was so loud! Roads we're quite bumpy so felt like it was a 4x4 instead of a coach at times. Journey to phnom phen was meant to be 6 hours..by now we've realised never to trust the boards took more like 8.
PP is a lot busier than siem reap..loads more traffic. Our first evening we walked to the river front and found somewhere to eat tea and then hit a few rooftop bars.
Day after we walked to visit the royal palace and then found the central markets..got a really decent beats speaker for £4.60. I have genuinely never felt heat like here though it actually just pours off you but sucks all your energy so I'm feeling quite tired a lot. Went and booked our bus to Vietnam again it's "6 hours" but spent a bit more and paid $14 each for a nice bus with wifi and snacks. Just need to book us a hotel now for HCMC.
After our day walk we stopped for a drink over looking the Mekong river and then made it back to the hotel. What started as a quick dip in the pool turned into abit of a drinking session as we befriend 2 people in the pool and then it turned happy hour 70p cocktails and 45p beer.
Taking advantage of my drunkness my dermal piercing ha decided to start coming out of my collar bone..half out I managed to pull the other half out without needing to visit a doctor to cut it out.
After getting quite tipsy mart went to get us a pizza in to watch the football with..now we'd heard people talking about happy pizzas but never actually believed them. Turns out all the restaurants ask if you want your pizza happy..mart said yes..what this actually means from happy herb pizza is they put weed on instead of garden herbs.
Had half each and mart felt fine whereas I was convinced I was floating on a cloud and couldn't move my hands very we'll. safe to say I slept a lot that night but woke up shattered.
We hired a tuk tuk after much haggling about the price who drove us about 45 minutes South of PP to the killing fields.
I would of enjoyed it a lot more had it not have been so hot. We we're draining big bottles of water and still feeling thirsty.
However despite the horrendous history surrounding the killing fields that really wasn't from that long enough. They've managed to turn such a tragedy into a peaceful respectful memorial.
The place itself is quite pretty as it's decorated with a lot of flowers and we'll looked after but the constant dips of mass graves can be quite a harrowing sight. There was a tree covered in Buddhist colourful bracelets that had been used to kill children by swinging them by their legs and smashing their heads off the tree. The main memorial building housed the skulls of most the victims that had been killed her- bludgeoned and beaten to death as bullets we're too expensive.
Being massive geeks and wanting to find out more we had an audio guide which we sat and listened too. Depressing as hell but important to understand the history surrounding it all.
Packing and booking tonight with a film before we get collected at 05:45am to start the journey to Vietnam!