"The mighty Angkor" Ever since I saw pictures of the Angkor temples I have been wanting to go there. When my grandma went there and took a DVD back home, it did not exactly give me less of a longing for the mystical and enormous temple ruins in the middle of the Jungle. As I mentioned in the previous blog post; the Angkor temples were one of my two target-destinations on this trip. (The other one is Machu Picchu.) For anyone attending any of Mr. Stev...

Phnom Penh In Phnom Penh we had only one day, and we wanted to spend it well. After breakfast we hired a TukTuk for the whole day. This turned out to be a great idea. We got to see a lot of the city, and many beautiful areas between the horrors we saw at the different museums documenting the crimes of the Khmer Rough. The driver took us to S21 first. S21 used to be a high school before the Khmer Rouge gained power after the revolution, but today it is called...

"Twenty was really the number of the day" The day was Saturday, the date was the 14th in the month of February. This day was special in many ways. I woke up in a bungalow on high pillars above the Mekong River. I stumbled out of bed and laid down in the hammock on the deck. It was early in the morning, and I watched the sky go from pink to blue. The sunrise was on the other side of the island, but I have seen a few sunrises, and I knew that with ...