Woke up at 8, had breakfast, checked out and met Chico who would be outside my hostel for 9. Started off by having a coffee with him randomly as he had to wait for someone next door to give some packages to him. First stop was the shooting range. Jesus, expensive or what I couldn't get hold of the lads to see what they paid but the price was $160 for 100 bullets of Kalashnikov, M16 any gun they had. On the 'menu' of guns to use was a rocket launcher! Of course, that was the first one they pointed out as 'once in a lifetime' which yeah, they are right I'm never going to fire a rocket launcher in the mountains but I'm not paying $400 for it! Seriously tempting though. Could shoot a cow as well ha! So I was getting the price down and got to $100 and they still wouldn't have it so started walking away and of course they said yes still fuming I was paying $100 to fire 2 guns made even worse when the lads later said they paid $55 each and shared the bullets. Never mind, nothing I could do could of walked away but really wanted to go in the shooting range and I enjoyed it anyway. So after it was what I had been reading up about since going to the prison in Hanoi and getting told 'you think this is bad, go to Cambodia'. So unaware of what actually happened here we all read up about it but NOTHING can prepare you for the horrors you see before you. So we got to Choeung Ek where the Khmer Rouge under Pol Pot murdered over 2 million people. $6 to get in and you get a set of headphones where it explains at each section of the killing fields what happened and there was 25 stages to walk through. First thing you see when walking through the gates is a big septa in memory of the killed and has displayed 5000 skulls of the victims. That was stage 1 :( Further on you walk to the reception where the workers registered the people about to be killed in the most humane ways you can think of. The headphones were so graphic you just try and imagine the scene of what happened where you are actually standing. Further on was the museum with pictures, clothes of the victims, bones, stories of the torturers. Walking round you are constantly seeing signs saying 'Don't step on bone' as when it rains and the ground gets lower the bones still to this day raise with teeth and skeleton. Horrific. Then after you listen to some survivor stories in a mass grave location you get to the worst thing you can think of. The killing tree. The horrible c*** of the Khmer Rouge used to bash CHILDREN by their feet against the tree until they died and mercifully just chuck them into the pit next to the tree. Next to the killing tree was a 'magic tree' where they had speakers which played the most chilling sound to drown out the sound of the people being murdered. The headphones played the music which can only explain a lady singing, some instruments playing and then the sound mixed in of a electric drill or something like a generator. Turning round with that music and looking at the killing tree and just imagining the scene is something I will chillingly never forget and have never felt so bad could of broke down it is absolutely f***in unimaginable. Past this is another mass grave where 186 people left their lives and were decapitated. Tools used were axes, sticks, skulls on show have holes in the top or sides where they were struck so hard. Tools were used to save bullets being used. Walking round you get to where you start and the feeling is just numb of what you have just witnessed. Got some bracelets and books and went with Chico to the S21 prison where they kept pretty much all innocent people and tortured them before meeting their fate at the killing fields. Very eerie and dense around the entrance again just trying to picture what it was like here. Building A had rooms where the beds haven't been touched since the prison got took over by the Vietnamese army and basically ran out the Khmer Rouge. Basically, each room as a large picture on the wall of what the army found in that room and each picture is basically a victim in chains on the bed having been tortured with blood everywhere and dead. This is all in building A upstairs to as well as pictures of the victims. Building B has make shift cells which are basically brick walls with chains with no space AT ALL. Building C was for the high risk 'prisoners' with barbed wire around the building so there is no chance for escape. Was here for around 2 hours and then had the absolute shock of my life to see 2 of the just 7 surviving prisoners from the prison. Had pictures with them both, bought their books on their time here and had a brief conversion with them with a tranlater. Could of broke down leaving them I just felt so sorry for them. One of them said he was shackled and in his interrogation they pulled off his big toe nail with pliers yanking away at it blood everywhere whilst pouring alcohol on it just to get him to confess to something he didn't do. Left the prison feeling s*** Chico could tell it affected me he tapped me on the shoulder and just said 's*** ain't it'. Will never forget that moment with him then. Went back to the hostel I needed to go to Kampot to meet the boys Chico said there would be no buses till tomorrow so I said I'd go for a beer with him later on. Turns out at the hostel they could organise a bus in half an hours time at 4.15 so felt harsh but sacked off Chico and got the bus to Kampot! Felt awful! Bus took 4 hours the boys were staying at Arcadia Backpackers Hostel which was decent felt good to be back on track so few beers went down well and as we all had room tabs, I was dreading what mine would be like. Met some cool people here, again me and 2 others in a seriously deep conversation about what I had seen today with one girl getting emotional and having to walk away over it all. Her husband was f***ed he was at first funny I couldn't stop laughing at him but Willem was on the edge with him as he kept giving him nipple cripples. Bit too much in the end doubt he will remember it in the morning. Not the best dorm my bed had stains on and dead flies which was nice nevertheless stayed in worse! Time to sleep off what has been a serious day of mixed emotions and one I will never, ever forget