Well where to start!
Cambodia for us has been amazing. The amount of culture and heritage is unbelievable.
There are some things we have seen here that will haunt us forever but still leave us impressed. We highly suggest coming here.
First DayWe met everyone on our Gecko Tour at 8am. Everyone was awesome, a great mixed group.
We then headed off in a mini van to the Cambodian Killing Fields. This place was so overwhelming. It was a place outside of Phnom Pehn were they used to take people (babies, children, mothers, fathers, anyone) and torture and kill them. There is a building with the bones and skulls of the people’s bodies that have resurfaced after all these years. There are set areas where they found 400 bodies then another area that you found 200 bodies. It was so sad! The Khamar Rouge would take these people during the night and kill them before morning. Our guide said that there was a loud speaker that they hung in the trees and turned the volume right up sop that the neighbors couldn't hear them killing. It was phenomenal because NO ONE heard it for years. So many innocent people died it was so tragic. After that we went to a old school that had been turned into a detainment centre where they would torture more people.
It was so full on for our first day. They used to keep these innocent people in a cell that was .8m wide (if that) by 2m long. But these are people that have done NOTHING wrong. They took us into these cells and rooms where these people had been killed. The blood was still stained into the ground. As we went through to the other buildings there were pictures of each person that had gone in there, it was so devastating.
There was this one photo that made Candice upset. It was a lady with her baby and the photo shows her with a tear running down her face, it is disgusting to know people were treated this way.
After that we went to the Royal palace. It was a bit of a change from what we had first seen. It was quite large and beautiful.
We then had lunch at a local restaurant, not sure if eating meat there was a good idea. Candice was sick from dehydration not from the food because she didn't eat any meat.
Went to the markets, seen what they have to offer in Cambodia. There are some nice stuff. After that we went to the museum to see all the old artifacts weapons used in the wars. There were so many beggars in Phnom Pehn, they hang around all the tourist areas. You feel really sorry for them.
