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So after our cheery visit to the war remnants museum in Vietnam we headed for the S21 museum in Cambodia. We have to admit we were pretty ignorant when it came to Cambodian history but had a thorough lesson when we reached S21. S21 was used as a prison for thousands of prisoners during the Khumer Ruge regime. Its open to tourists now and has been left pretty much unchanged i.e. blood on the walls and torture instruments on show, as well as pictures of those murdered. We literally walked around lost for words, amazed that such atrocities had been carried out in our lifetime. We then headed to the Killing Fields where there are mass graves of all those transported from S21. Knowing thousands died there is pretty harsh but is reinforced by the monument of thousands of skulls of those killed. It was a harrowing day and we both left pretty humbled.
To get ourselves back on track there was only one option...Happy Pizza...we'll leave it to your imaginations to guess how it made us happy!! After this and another reunion with our Asian travelling buddies 'The Irish Lads' we headed to the classiest club of our travels so far 'The heart of Darkness' needless to say a messy night followed, complete with managing to fit 7 in a Tuk Tuk which we managed to tip as we got out (we hadn't quite calculated that if 3 of us got out of one side the others might weigh the other side down...those in the tuk tuk were left unhurt though the driver looked slightly bewildered as he was stranded mid air!).
SIEM REAP
Following the tourist route, we then headed straight for Angkor Wat and the surrounding areas of Angkor Thom and the Angelina Jolie temple. Everyone raves about Angkor Wat but it was actually Angkor Thom (complete with amazing carvings) and the Tomb Raider Temple (with beautiful trees entwined) that blew our minds. Jenna liked it so much she even left a layer of skin at the top when she head butted the top.. Apparently she thought she could take down a building that had been there over a thousand years...instead she went green, then red, then nearly passed out! For a nice end to the day we decided to watch the sunset over Angkor Wat after a hike up a mountain we discovered the temple was just a dot in the distance and the sun set on the other side...not quite the picturesque setting we had in mind and why didn't anyone tell us this at the bottom!
That night we were knackered so went out for a quiet drink on bar street...Ronan however decided this wasn't allowed and proceeded to throw our bottles of water across the club every time we tried to drink them....needless to say we ended up a bit smashed!! The night came to a great end when Tommy paid a tuk tuk driver ten dollars to drive it...yep you guessed it, 9 in the back and Tommy driving pissed through the streets of Cambodia, beautiful!!
At this point we decided we hadn't killed our livers completely and although India sounded great it would be a bit too cultural for 5 whole weeks so there was only one thing for it...back to Thailand for another Full Moon Party!!
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