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 ...