After a nice bacon sandwich for breakfast headed back to Hostel where a car picked us up to take us literally 2 mins down road to bus....... Given busy roads Im sure it would have been quicker to walk it!!! Bus departed at 11:30 and after hour or so doing border formalities arrived in Phnom Penh at around 5pm. Got taken with Steve and an American on bus called Armin (who was in dorm at hostel in Saigon for couple nights) by tuk-tuk to a guest house the driver knew and were given a triple room for little over $2 each so happy to stay here!! Cambodia was clearly a far poorer country then Vietnam and appeared far less developed, that said there were clearly some rich people in this particular city with some big 4x4 and flashy executive cars driving around.

The next day our tuk-tuk driver was at guest house and we negotiated a price to be taken to some of the local sights. All three of us departed in tuk-tuk with first stop being the S21 prison. This was an old school which during the Pol Pot reign in the 70's was converted into a prison and is now situated as a museum to show the terrible past the country suffered under his and the Khmer regime. Really was some shocking images and the rooms where prisoners were tortured had the beds still in them where the priosners were chained to with a picture of the prisoner chained to the bed located on the wall aboe it. Real shocking images and the whole prison was very uncomfortable to be walking through when you read about the attrocities which occured here. Just hard to believe that this took place just 30 years ago!!!!

After this we were taken to a Russian market where we had a little look about before being taken onto the Killing Fields. This is the place where anybody who did not fit into or comply with Pol Pot's regime were taken to by the truck load to face their execution and then buried in mass graves. There is now a tower which stands here with skulls of the executed housed in it. Once again totally shocking and a real somber day of insight into Cambodia's recent history. So many innocent people who met their fate just for being educated or not working on the farms, and soo many people we met in Cambodia had as a result lost somebody due to this. After here we were dropped off at another local market where we grabbed some local food and wandered around for couple hours. Headed out in evenig to a local bar where we met some other people staying at our guest house and we sank a few Angkor beers.

After a couple days spent here, myself and Steve decided to move onto Siem Reap and booked onto a bus for the next day.