Hi all, I checked into a quality guesthouse called Happy or something like that, which had a cool vibe and backed onto the river with was nice. As soon as I arrived I hired a moto and driver to explore Cambodia's capital. My first target was the Killing Fields where millions of Cambodian's lost there lives pretty brutally by the Khmer Rouge. However, on the way I was persuaded to go to the shooting range. Cambodia is pretty famous for this as it has a huge amount of weaponry that was left over from the civil war. I wasn't planning to shot a semi automatic machine gun when I arrived in Cambodia but I then though, why not, when am I ever going to be able to shot an AK47 again! When I got to the range I was presented with a menu to choose the weapon I wished to fire or throw. I went for the AK47 over the M16 due to the fact that the M16 is more accurate and less fun - well that's what I told myself..... Once I had geared up I started to fire single shots at the target that was 40m away. What a experience. The force, smell, smoke and the metal shells flying out of the chamber hitting the ceiling then then my head was amazing. Then I had another magazine and flicked it to automatic and oh my god, I can't explain the experience but it was well worth the dosh. Have a look at the pictures - I'm not a bad shot with a semi automatic machine gun! Once I had finished playing war games with the AK47 loaded with live rounds it was time to visit the Killing Fields. The atmosphere was strange and the place did have an air of evil about it. The first and only building that is there houses over 8 thousand human skulls that were bludgeoned and buried there in mass graves. All the skulls are housed in a huge glass casing the full height of the building. There are sorted by ages from the very young to old. The place stank and you could see on a lot of the skulls where they had be bludgeoned. The rest of the Killing fields was investigating the mass graves that all had signs explaining what they found in that particular grave. You need to see the pictures really or visit yourselves to understand! The next day I visited S-21 or The Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum. This was a primary school before the Khmer Rouge took control of Cambodia and turned it into the S-21 Prison. This is where thousands of Cambodian's where imprisoned and tortured before being taken to the Killing Fields to be murdered. There is something about war atrocities and genocide that I find fascinating as I was there ages reading every single placard again. The acts that these poor Cambodian had to suffer was unreal. There was three rooms approx 18 foot by 10 foot that had pictures of all the people that were imprisoned and tortured at S-21. Each room had three cabinets that stretch the length of the room with pictures back and front over three of these 18 foot rooms. The amount of people was astonishing and you were well aware that all of these people were savagely tortured in one of the room I had just visited! I've taken some pictures of the beds that they were chained too - have a look..... I found this whole S-21 experience fascinating. Using such a word as enjoyed would be wrong! I also visited the Independence Monument and Wat Phnom (Hill Monastery) which were nice. The rest of the time I relaxed in the hostel chilling reading a book by the river and watching films with random traveling that I met. I went out the night before living for Bangkok with an Irish and English girl I'd met at S-21 - this was probably a bad move. We drank a jug of every single cocktail they had on the menu! Well I went to bed at 05:00 and I was for the vichle for Bangkok and 06:00. 14 hours later and only one 15 minute i stop I was in Bangkok. Time for a beer and then bed my thinks... After 11 days away from Kho Tao, it was time to make my way back. I loved Kanchanaburi and Cambodia but to be honest I had also missed life and living on Kho Tao. Bye for now Miffy x x x