We had no problems crossing the border into Cambodia. We pulled up to the bus station in Phnum Penh (capital) and were greeted by heavy rain. Ponchos out we made quickly for a questhouse.

The next morning we were picked up by a TUk TUk driver to take us to S21 prison and later the killing fields. S21 was once a school which was turned into a prison during the Khmer Rouge to hold and torture people thought to be traitors. A place once filled with childrens laughter, to be replaced by the screams of people being tortured now lies in a haunting silence. Walking through the building you see the make shift prison cells and barbed wire covering the hallways. Pictures of the victims fill many of the rooms were hundreds of gaunt faces stare back at you. Many visitors walk with tears in their eyes, everyone walks in silence.

From S21 to the killing fields, we make the same journey many made on their way to be killed after being held in the prison. Trucks would pull up full of men, women and even children waiting to be murdered. The kiiling fields are lush with green and would be a nice place for a picnic if not for it gruesome history, which is why this place, like S21 hangs in sorrowful silence. In the center is a monument, maybe five storeys high, dedicated to the victims and full of their skulls and bones. Throughout the fields are craters were hundreds of people were killed, their clothes still half buried in the earth for you to see.

Our last stop before heading back was the Rusian market, an indoor market full of bodies selling everything you can imagine. Here we had some nice local noodles before the sunshine turned yet again to cloud and Rain.

Because of our short timescale we had to leave for Siem Reap the next day.

SIEM REAP

The bus up to Siem Reap took only for hours. We checked out a few guesthouses, including one with a back garden full of huge Crocs!!!, before finally choosing a cheap $2 place, our room named Paradise. The main square is litered with bars, restuarants but is still quite relaxing during the day. Of a night we hit the night market were we met some aussie girls: Lisa and Erica. The bar street of a night is buzzing with people, everywhere full. Siem Reap is famous for the Angkor Wat temples which are scattered around the place, So the following morning we set out and spent the day doing the cultural thing, sightseeing the smaller temples. The temples are amazing and the detail in the stone work is incredible.

Now because there are so many temples in Angkor Wat it is virtually impossible to see it all in one day. So we had a two day pass. After a tiresome day trekking the temples, we did the sensible thing and hit the bars that night. We were to be up at 4am to catch the sunrise at the main temple. After a few vodkas and some dancing we got back to the guesthouse at about 2am. So 5am and we are at Angkor Wat feeling... not so good, and just our luck no sunrise, just cloud. We spent a few hours around the main temples but I was feeling bad so we decided to head back to get some rest and return later. A few hours rest and we were back in the Tuk Tuk. We saw the remainder of the temples included were the film Tomb Raider was filmed.

We stayed in that night as we were leaving for Bangkok the next morning.