Scary scary day, not from any sort of scary adventure, but because we visited the killing fields of Choeng Uk. During the reign of Pol Pot, a mass of people were murdered here. Anyone who had any sort of education was killed. Pol Pot rounded up armies of small teenage boys to kill their families. You can still walk around the grave sites and find bones from the murders. It was a very scary and sad place and I am so pleased that his reign is over and th...

After leaving the hustle and bustle of Ho Chi Minh behind us, we decide to do a two-day raft/boat/tuk-tuk tour to the capital of Cambodia, Phnom Penh. This gets off to a great start as we drive to the border town and get into a row boat. The row boats, of course, are steered by women, they seem to do all the hard work in this culture. We paddle up the river and through floating villages. It is an experience to witness fish bones being dried out in the sun...