Slept a bit longer today. Skipped breakfast 'cause of "more interesting things to do". Around 3pm we took a tuktuk to the Killing Fields of Cheung Ek, located about 15km from the city centre. It took about ~40min to get there, but I wouldn't actually recommend hoing there with tuktuk...'cause of the gas pollutiin and dust which comes from the traffic..your lungs won't like it. Taxi would've been better, though a bit more expensive.
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The Killing Fields. Well, gotta say that it was a place to remember, unique in its macabresness, and reminded me about Auschwitch.. The atmosphere in the place being smth similar, though still different. Those excavated mass graves everywhere, can't think another place here and now, where else you could walk among thousands of peoples' graves, literally. In the ground you can still see fragments of clothes of people killed there, coming out of the soil with the rains..and..fragments of teeth as well!! :P And skulls, of course skulls everywhere, in glass vitrines.
The absurd thing is, that the government of Cambodia has actually sold the grounds to a japanese company, who now runs the
Museum and the whole place(!). Grim thing to put a price tag on such a thing...
We spent about 1,5hrs there and it was fairly enough time to walk around the fields, read the exhibitions, and take pictures, etc. Grim place, very, but definitely a MUST to all visiting PP. The notorious prison Tuol
Sleng, S-21..that we'll see when we come back to PP at the end of our Cambodian tour.
The way back was even more dustier than the way there, if possible. So again, I do not recommend going by tuktuk there! ;P
The tuktuk driver dropped us at Friends' Restaurant, which has got very good reviews in TripAdvisor/TravelFish. The place is also a training restaurant for former street kids, so you also support a good cause a bit by eating there. But - what matters the most, the food was really good!!! :))
We had 4 different "tapas" plates and all of them were good, maybe the curry was best. Really tasty! And reasonably priced, and Angkor in Big bottles. ;) Good desserts, too.
So a very good dinner! I recommend.
So after a full set, we walked coupla blocks to the legendary FCC, Foreign Correspondents' Club (!) to have a drink :D Sitting in those leather armchairs, we sipped mojito and pina colada. Only a cigar (I _almost bought a Romeo&Julieta nr.3. But maybe next time, with more time to spend then ;), and a newspaper missing. ;)
Unfortunately the standard of the cocktails wasn't much. So next time it'll be a pint of beer. You can't mess that, can you?! Left about 23pm, 'cause tomorrow we're going to Kampot, a ~3hrs ride for a privat taxi. Can't sleep all day this time. ;)