I am finding that buses in South East Asia are never on time. Always add on a few hours to what they say the journey will take. Oh and Cambodian buses play a continuous cheesy karaoke the whole journey so loud that it can't be ignored nor would you be able to sleep through it. So if you ever plan on visiting take ear plugs!

We arrived about tea time in Phnom Penh and made our way to our hostel Lovely jubbley. On arrival we bumped into a girl we met in Siem Reap and went out to dinner with her and a few others. A few games of pool and several double vodkas later we found ourselves at a Cambodian nightclub called Pontoon where a lady gaga ladyboy show took over the dance floor, albeit very strange the dancing was amazing, who knew Cambodian men could look so good in glittery hot pants.

The next day we headed to S-21, previously a school that had been taken over by the Khmer Rouge and run as a prison during Pol Pots regime. There was still blood splattered on the ceilings from the innocent victims who had been hurt and killed there. On display were thousands of pictures of the victims dead and alive. The images were disturbing and heart breaking.

Later on we visited the Killing Fields where so many innocent victims were murdered by the Khmer Rouge and buried in mass graves. We took an audio tour of the area. I had a heavy heart the whole time. The hardest bit was seeing the clothes, bones and teeth of the victims coming to the surface of their mass graves, the wet season unearthing them. I was horrified to see a large tooth sticking out of the ground as I walked along, I found myself having to walk around piles of resurfacing clothes. Just horrific. Then there was the killing tree, where the Khmer Rouge would smash children off it to kill them. When the killings fields was uncovered the tree still had blood and bits of brain attached to it. Many were killed in inhumane ways as it was cheaper than using bullets.

Throughout the tour I actually felt like I could throw up with disgust at the injustice. My heart broke for all the innocent people affected and I felt so angry for them too. How could anyone actually do this?

Its makes me thankful that I feel safe in my own country and not take it for granted, something that previously I wouldn't of given a second thought to.

In the evening we 'Dined in the dark'. We had dinner in a pitch black restaurant run by blind people. It was an amazing experience and really put into perspective how hard it must be for blind people to even eat a meal or find a set of tables and chairs. The menu was a surprise so we didn't know what we were going to get, when it was served we did a lot of prodding and smelling and then ate it with our hands because by the time I had found my fork I'd lost my plate. A really enjoyable experience and a great employment opportunity for the blind.

The following day with some our new chums we attended backstreet academy where we were taught by locals how to carve key-rings out of coconuts. The end result was amazing. We all made elephant key-rings.
The health and safety in South East Asia never fails to crack me up though. If I didn't concentrate I could of definitely lost a thumb!

In the evening we headed down to the river to sit on a roof top bar and drink it dry of happy hour cocktails.