Today we were up early for our visit to Choeung Ek, the scene of some of the worst atrocities ever committed. Our trip left from the agents where we booked it yesterday just after 9am. When we arrived at the killing fields, we were told we'd be there for 90 minutes and we headed inside. The first, unmissable sight was the huge stupa that has been built there to commemorate the victims of the Khmer Rouge regime, but more about that later. We didn't really know mu...

Frist proper day in Cambodia - time to explore a bit of the capital! There was a guy in the reception of our hotel trying to sell us a city tour while we were paying for an extra 2 nights, but at $10 each, we thought it was a bit expensive. We walked around the corner to a travel agent we'd spotted last night and booked a tour to the killing fields and genocide museum for tomorrow morning. Then we caught a tuk-tuk to the Royal Palace up the road. The tuk-tuk driv...

Time to get back to the mainland...by 8am we were waiting by the 'beach' with our rucksacks, for our return boat trip. Eventually we were all herded into one of three boats and we were away...then we got stuck. We arrived back on the mainland but were told that our bus wouldn't be leaving until 9:30am! The reason for this seemed to be so that we could fill in our Cambodian visa paperwork and hand it, along with our passports, to a guy who was offering to take car...