14 Dec: Arrived after going through the border on a boat, fairly simple stuff just doing the whole leaving Vietnam, then arriving in Cambodia customs within about 2 mins of each other and headed for the Capital, Phnom Penh. Getting there quite late, I headed for the Silver Pagoda and the Royal Palace and also had a walk around yet another market - this time it was a Russian market?! A good relaxed evening included a pizza and a couple of ankor beers during happy hour.
15 Dec: Got up early and went to the Genocide museum, which was a former school. Then it got changed into a Khmer Rouge torture centre. I read all about the tragic history and the Pol Pot era. Half the population was wiped out between 1975 and 1979 and the chambers were horrific. I then headed for the Killing Fields, where there are the mass graves as you walk around there are still bones sticking through the ground where the rain has washed the mud away. There are 83 mass graves and that's only the ones that have been dug up - after that they stopped. I had a tour guide who spoke of the times and you can see that it was hard for him everyone was silent because some of the things we were hearing were so graphic and brutal. There was a mass grave of around 100 woman and babies and next to it the tree which served as the weapon to do this. Other graves were for the soliders and they were buried headless and many many more. There's a memorial statue now full of skulls. It was very emotional day filled with horror stories, photographs and graves.