Together with Briege and Layne we chartered a tuk tuk for the day to take us round the sites of Phnom Penh. First, after a very dusty journey. was the shooting range - which was very much like a cafe with tables, yet the menu isn't drinks and food, it's bullets and grenades!

Thinking of better ways to spend our cash we watched Briege and Layne fire an AK47. We were tempted to fire a rocket launcher for $200, but resisted.

Next stop was the infamous Killing Fields of Choeng Ek. This is where prisoners and their families of the S21 prison were brutally executed. These people weren't guilty of any crime, they were only guilty of either being or looking intellectual. The killings were carried out by the Khmer Rouge, led by Pol Pot, a Cambodian who wanted Cambodia to be just agricultural farmers. This vision was to get rid of all schools, hospitals - anything with any cultural significance, he even tried to abolish the monitary system.

He started his reign by proclaiming it to be year zero - it was actually only 30 years ago, 1977.

As you enter the grounds with shady trees and butterflies it's hard to believe the horrific and barbaric past that happened here such a short time ago. You are faced with a glass tower which displays on 17 levels 8000 skulls and discarded clothes, from just some of the 17000 murdered innocent victims.

After paying our respects our guide took us round the grounds where there are 80 shallow graves/pits in the earth, which had been excavated and where 100 bodies were found in each one.

Bones are still visible and sticking up through the ground with clothes still lying in the graves. At the site, there is also a lake which apparently holds another 40 graves still not excavated (leaving the remaining 9000 bodies untouched).

The guide told us how these poor innocent victims were never shot, as the guards wanted to save bullets, instead they suffered brutal deaths in many ways - lined one by one in shackles they were either suffocated by plastic bags, bludgeoned in the head by a blunt object, their heads chopped off or their throats cut. Children were either piked up by their ankles and swung head first into a tree or thrown in the air and stabbed by the bayonette of the guards gun, before being tossed into their grave.

Whilst these killings were being carried out, up to 300 people a day, speakers played out music so the groans couldnt be heard from the outside.

This is just one of the 100's of killing fields in Cambodia, in total nearly 2million people met their death in this way.

The most shocking of all this was how it was all carried out by brainwashed children aged between 10 16years old.

Our next stop was then the S.21 prison. As you walk into the entrance, you pass 14 tombstones, which holds the last murdered victims found when the prison was discovered by the Vietnamese.

The ground floor of the prison still has the beds present along with graphic photos on the walls showing how the remaining dead 14 bodies were found in their cells. Blood still stains the floor from when they were beat and tortured to death.

Along the corridors, photo's of the prisoners (before being taken to the killing fields) were made and they now line the rooms. It isnt just their faces, nearly a third are pictures of some of the victims lying dying on the floor in their cells - some bodies aren't even recognisable as they are beaten that bad.

Some of the prisoners didnt make it to the killing fields - up to 100 victims were killed in the prison each day.

Each floor holds a different story, the building used to be a high school and some of the rooms were turned into either little brick or wood cells.

The top floor is a gallery which holds some biographies of the victims up to the day they were arrested (they were forced to write their life story) and comments of the ex guards who worked there - these are still alive to this day, some still not thinking they did anything wrong, mainly because they knew that they would be killed as well, even to the stage of killing their own families.

It was very sad and upsetting to see the horrific picture of what happened.

After leaving here we went to the Palace but decided against going as it was too expensive and we didnt really feel up to it after what we had just seen.

We then booked our bus ticket to Siem Reap in the morning - another 6 hour bus journey and our fights from there to Luang Prabang in Laos in a week's time.