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So the bus was not too bad only taking 2 hours more than expected! Tiny little double bunk beds with curtains drawn round meant we slept most of the way except the road was ridiculously bumpy! But u get used to it, sort of. Also lucky there was 2 of us because solo travellers were forced to share one of the teeny tiny beds with a complete randomer! We arrive at 9 and have a free tuk tuk waiting for us, we thought this was a lovely gesture from the hotel, little did we know we were basically signing up for him to be our personal driver the rest of the stay, trying to charge extortionate prices! (Anything over $3 is extortion) so when we are settled we decide to go the genocide museum which used to be a prison during the Khmer Rouge which is where a political group overthrew the Cambodian government and bassically tortured and killed a quarter of the population, and only about 30 years ago! How have I not heard about this before?! The prison is awful, a showing pictures of all the men women and children who had been in the prison and later brought to the killing fields, some of the rooms were so tiny less than a metre wide and all brick no windows! There were also rooms for torturing with pictures showing prisoners tied to the devices. Outside there's a place where they used to hang people upside down until the pass out, the wake them back up by dunking there heads in dirty sewer water to make them confess to things they usually hadn't done, to give them an excuse to be sent to the killing fields. After a gruesome day it's dinner, a few drinks in the hotel lobby and bed!
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