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Left hotel at 8.30am for the killing fields prison in the actual city centre of Phnom Penh. It was one of many prisons created by the Khmer Rouge to hold and interrogate inmates, mainly through torture. The inmates were made up of anyone Pol Pot's regime deemed educated. Even if you wore glasses you would be arrested.
This particular prison was a school before it was turned into a detention and torture centre.
After an emotional and really shocking hour we went to a site just outside Phnom Penh where many thousands of people, men women and children had been killed and buried in mass graves.
Shards of clothes and pieces of bone are still visible in the ground and paths you walk on. One thing that stood out was how little is known about such a huge genocide, considering how recent it was.
We headed back to Phnom Penh city centre by the river for lunch and had a pizza lunch with Billy and 2 Norwegian girls on the trip, Andrea and Eline. Top tip, be very wary of choosing pizza in asia...
We headed to the FCC for a drink in the afternoon, during happy hour, before dinner at Capanina Mexican restaurant with 2 English girls on the trip.
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