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Gone walkabout
Hello All,
Since we last wrote the postcard, we left the Mekong Delta, into Cambodia after another slow boat trip lasting well over 4 hours. We arrived in Phnom Penh in time for the start of the annual Boat Festival, with hoards of locals walking down the streets. The same fireworks were shown every night for 3 days after the daily dragon boat races. We visited the Tuol Sleng Museum which used to be a secondary school before the Khmer Rouge renamed it S-21 (security-21) prison and randomly took loads of people to be interrogated and tortured before transporting them to the Killing Fields. It was basically rooms full of mugshots of the victims (a few westerners too) and a few rooms full of tiny single cells to keep the prisoners in (as well as a school blackboard on the floor).
After 3 days in Phnom Penh, we took a bus to Siem Reap which is the base for going to Angkor. Its a nice little town with trendy bars and restaurants dotted along a street. Angkor Wat at sunrise was gorgeous and went for walkies around it as well as visiting lots of other temples (some with v detailed carvings on the walls) and one where the Tomb Raider was filmed (trees growing over the ruins).
Last night we watched the rugger on TV (Eng V NZ), there was a welshman rooting for the All Blacks (I kept quiet when the welsh were TRASHED by South Africa!)
Going to Bangkok tomorrow morning by bus (the road from Siem Reap to the border is supposed to be hell - being thrown about on the bus).
Andy and Rachel
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