Hey everyone, I arrived in Phnom Penh yesterday from Battambang. Travelled with Sokhany on the bus, and am staying at her foster daughters house. This is a hair dress shop and beauty salon right smack back in the middle of the city - the King is my neighbour at the moment!! might drop round to the Royal Palace for a angkor beer later!!! Went to dinner at a friend's house last night, my friend neary is volunteering as a psychologist at PTD, but she comes from Phn...

Well, my travels have started off in terrible fashion.. by missing my flight - i was at the airport in time, but my tickets were not! not to worry - I am still smiling and am on a flight six hours later - on way to Phnom Penh. I am planning to stay one night there - catch up with my secret lover there (the food) and jump on a bus to Battambang - near the Thai border to begin working with street famalies. Missing everyone already.... I am looking forward to ever...

Hiya, Today was the first day we got stuck into the educational part of the trip. Went to the Killing Fields and the genocide museum called Tuol Sleng. the killing fields are one of 381 mass graves in Cambodia. There is a stupa erected there - which is a tall biulding like a Buddhist temple that is dedicated to the dead. Inside are rows and rows of skulls - sorted into men, women and children. These were exhumed following the downfall of the Khmer Rouge There ar...

G'day!! Have survived second day in cambodia!! Am adjusting to the lovely smells and sights of Phnom Penh. Overall impression - motorbikes - everywhere!!! crazy traffic. The people seem very hard working. Went to royal palace today - wow - buddha statues everywhere. the palace is painted a lovely yellow and white - yellow simbolising buddhism and white symbolising hindiism. the royal palace is extremely decadent - steop outside and there are beggars with ...