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We have had a great time in Phnom Penh, possibly the best Capital City I have visited. Cambodia is a wonderful place! and PP is laid back, chilled, and welcoming. We have had 4 nights here and only because we applied for vietnam visa late on friday so had to wait till monday to get it.
Am typing this in Siem Reap (will tell you about this place tomorrow) PP has lots going for it, plenty of good local and foreign style bars and restaurants, beer is cheaper than water in most places and food is excellent! We stayed opposite the infamous S21 prison museum at a eco friendly wholefood B&B called The Boddhi Tree (fantastic food) for $16 a night. S21 is a former school that was turned into an interrogation camp after the Khmer Rouge took control. Artists, lawyers, politicians, doctors, scientists, engineers, any educated people etc (also anyone who disagreed with Pol Pot) were taken here and tortured, starved then taken away to the Killing Fields. We visited the Killing Field outside PP where the prisoners were exectued, terrible... no need to describe how terrible this place, moment, sin is...
Despite the terrible history (recent) the country is amazing!!! clean (so different from india) nobody spits, pisses, drops litter or makes a mess (sorry india) yet it is even poorer.
Sunday afternoon was spent at the Foreign Correspondents Club in PP, drinkng beer and scotch (me) and margerittas (ally), its a bar restaurant that sums up the capital - slow, laid back, comfy chairs, ceiling fans whirring slowly above your head, gekkos cathcing flys on the walls, hot, humid, overlooking the confluence of the Tonle Sap and Meekong Rivers...
But Oh My F'ing God... ANGKOR... tell you tomorrow.
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