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Hi Everyone,
Finally, Cambodia! This is the part of the trip that I have been looking forwad to....
The first place we visited in Cambodia was Phenom Penh, to reach it we had a extreamly bumpy and hot bus trip... none the less we arrived.
In Phenom Penh, we started by visiting the Golden Palace of the King of Cambodia... this is where disaster struck!!! Elise fell very ill and was forced to go back to the hotel, she had contracted a violent stomach bug!!
The Golden Palace was Fantastic there were so many different thing to see and so many photos to take.
After the Golden Palace we were taken to S-21 the secret prision where the Khmer Rouge held all the political prisoners... from 17000 prisoners only 7 survived!!! We were told how people were tortured and how 'confessions' were forced, we were shown thousands of photos of people held in the place! After the prison were went to visit the notorious Killing Fields!
It is difficult to describe the Killing Fields because it is difficult to understand how anyone could have commited the atrocities that occured, we were shown the different sections in the field's were different people were taken and killed, by far the most disturbing place was where the killed the children.
We saw the memorial made out of all the bones and skulls found at the sight, then we headed back to the hotel.
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