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We got the bus from Siem Reap to Phnom Penh and didn't really do much for the rest of the day; it's amazing how tiring sitting on bus can be! The next day we hired a tuk tuk for the day. We needed to get our Visa's for Laos sorted so did that in the morning.We then went to the Killing Fields, it's so horrific how many people were killed there. There is a glass case with all the skulls of the bodies that they have removed from the mass graves. There are about 8,000 in total but this isn't anywhere near the total number of people that were killed here as they haven't exhumed all of the mass graves; of the 127 mass graves 43 remain untouched. There is still clothing and bones scattered on the paths as you walk around, it's terrible to think that someone could kill so many people. And it's unbelievable that it was actually in my lifetime.Next we went to S-21, the school that was taken over by the Khmer Rouge and used to torture prisoners before being killed or sent to the Killing Fields. They have pictures of the victims displayed, they would take a picture of every prisoner as a log. Some of them look so scared, and some are only children, it's horrible. There are rooms with beds in which were used for torturing people, some still have blood stains on the floor. Of the 20,000 people who were taken there, only 7 survived.It was very upsetting to go to both places and I cried a couple of times but I think it's important to see the history of the country - and quite a recent history at that. The Cambodia people are so lovely, they always have a smile on their face, it's hard to believe that they've been through so much.I didn't take pictures at either of the places as it didn't seem right so not many pictures from Phnom Penh.
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