Tim and I hired a Tuk-Tuk and driver for the day in order to see some of the main sites in the city. Our first point of call was the S21 Prison, formerly a high school converted in August 1975 into a prison and interrogation centre by the Khmer Rouge. They renamed the complex "Security Prison 21" (S-21) and the buildings were enclosed in electrified barbed wire and the classrooms converted into tiny prison cells and torture chambers. A shocking and very real insight into the barbarism of the Cambodia under Pol Pot
We also visited The Killing Fields. I experienced very sobering emotions here, knowing the atrocities that once went on. I’ll spare the detail from what I had further learnt from visiting these sites and the enormity that went on during the Khmer Rouge regime.
Following the Killing Fields and the S-21, neither of us felt in the mood for visiting the Palace. And for a $6 entry fee it was just another temple as its main attraction.
