Back to Phnom Penh - Cambodia

Since we left our passports in Phnom Penh, at the Myanmar Embassy, to get visas we had to back track and go back to pick them up! We had planned on this and had left sights to be seen....
We went back to the same area we had stayed before-

Agustin at the Central Market in Phnom Penh

Monks walking the streets of Phnom Penh

Typical Cambodian architecture....and a Buddhist monk!

Near the Royal Palace

The museum in Phnom Penh

Agustin in his new "good looking shirt!"

A pagoda being built

The Independence monument

A grocery store located near our hostel, as items were scanned a picture of what you bought came on the computer- Hello technology! It was so cool we had to go back and buy more to take a picture!

Yes, we bought ice cream and a coke! Upon leaving the store to cross the street to our awaiting tuk tuk.....we waited for a clearing in the road. We walked across and an oncoming car sped up towards us(to scare us), we picked up the pace, and it had to slam on the breaks. It was a police car, being jerks to tourists.....and since it sped up and then slammed on the breaks the car behind it crashed into it! We looked at the scene and ran across to our tuk tuk and yelled- "GO GO!!! GO!!"

Agustin at our favorite local restaurant, Molopsuay, all the food was $1.50, and that included free ice tea and rice! We ate at this restaurant 6 times!

The National beer of Cambodia- Angkor beer! It tasted so good on this hot day!

The following pictures are of the Choeung Elk "Killing fields" They are located 14 km from the city. These are the mass graves that the Khmer Rouge, let by Pol Pot, dumped over 20,000 bodies. Over 100 babies were also found, along with children and women.

The mass graves

The tree which they hung speakers to mask the loud cries of those being killed

The tree in which they smashed babies against to kill and save bullets. The Khmer Rouge, were ruthless people and killed more people than Hitler, however most don't even know the leaders name or about these horrible acts that occurred from 1975-1979.

Clothes of those killed. The Cambodian people really want to preserve and remind those of what happened. The fields are open for walking around and nothing is off limits.

More mass graves

The pagoda built to hold the bones of those found here

The skulls of those killed here at Choeung Ek. In this grave site alone-20,000 bodies were found, however in those 4 years of terror over TWO million people were killed.

These are the uniforms every person in Cambodia was ordered to wear from 1975-1979. All forms of money were abolished, clothes were burnt, no one owned property, everyone was forced out of the cities and made to live and work in the country side. People were brutally murdered, starved, and tortured under Pol Pot. After the fall of the Khmer Rouge in 1979(thanks to Vietnam), the leader Pol Pot fled to Thailand. He lived there for many years until the UN finally caught on an put him under arrest. He spent his final years under HOUSE ARREST! I can not believe this disgusting human was able to serve his sentence in his house. He was worse than Hitler, yet he was not punished for his crimes. As of March 2009, the trial of the rest of his leaders is still on going.