Arrived in Phnom Penh, Cambodia on Monday 4th December from Saigon after a 6 hour bus journey. Border crossing was no hassle except for our bus driver trying to extort $10 out of us for sorting our visas out. We wised up to this after talking to fellow travelers and Jay asked for our money back and we sorted them out ourselves. Phnom Penh was a lot more developed than we had anticipated. However we only stopped there to visit S21 prison and the Killing Fields, which we visited on our second day. The prison was formally a primary school and at first appearances it still looked that way, however upon entering it soon became apparent that the classrooms had been used for torture, interrogation, and parts of it had been converted into cells. There was quite a lot of detailed information around the site including photos, artifacts, discolored walls and in some cases what looked like blood stained floors, you can’t help but visualize the suffering and pain which must have occurred. A lot of the prisoners were killed at the former school however, a lot more were taken to the Killing Fields (Choeung Ek) to be murdered. This was our next stop after a 40 minute (and very bumpy) tuk tuk ride. What can we say about this….except the atrocities that occurred here are unbelievable? Three lorry loads of prisoners were brought here every day to be bludgeoned to death and they were buried in mass graves, victims included women and children, and there was one particular tree that was used solely for the purpose of beating to death the children! Horrific. As we walked around the exposed graves there was evidence of victims clothing and bones – again all you could do was try to imagine the suffering that must have taken place. All this and no one knew at the time this was happening – while the killing was taking a place a speakerphone was erected to play music to drown out the moans of the victims. We ended the visit seeing 8000 of the victim’s skulls which have been stored in a shrine in the centre of the fields and acts as a memorial to the 2 million victims of Pol Pots regime.