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The next day we were up early and left Bangkok by minibus and arrived at the thai/ cambodian border around lunchtime. Having crossed the border we boarded another bus and drove for five hours to siam reap. The following day we left at 5am to see angkor wat at sunrise which was lovely although there were a lot of mosquitos!! We went back to the hotel for breakfast and then had a guided tour around angkor thom, jungle temple (the one in tomb raider!) and angkor wat. It was supper hot but interesting and after lunch we headed back to the hotel and helen spent the afternoon by the pool whilst catherine slept. The next morning we had a lie in and left siam reap at 12.30 for phnon penh which took us 6 hours by public bus and having arrived we took tuk tuks to go to dinner. The next day we went to tuol sleng (s21) prison and the killing fields which is where the khmer rouge regime imprisoned, tourtured, killed and buried millions of cambodians in the 70's in an attempt to wipe out all intellectual middle class people. It was quite an emotional morning but very educational. We went for lunch at Friends, a restaurant that supports street children. We had some really amazing tapas style food and good smoothies! We all met back up at 2.30pm for a cyclo tour around the city which took us to the independent monument, a temple, the central market, royal palace and silver pagoda. After a bit of shopping at the central market we headed back to the hotel and then back out at 7pm for dinner.
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