Just finishing our first full day in Phnom Pehn we have had a harrowing visit to S21 the torture camp in the city where the Khymer Rouge murdered 20,000 people in the 70's. A reminder that this country has had to come a long way to recover from this terror in the last 30 years.
We got here yesterday afternoon after a long bus trip from Battambang to find our hotel room was not available for the first of 3 nights. We had a difficult half hour before we resolved the situation and accepted the alternative still all is well today.
We woke up to the sound of a wedding party at 6am in Battambang a bit annoying but interesting to see almost below our window. The hotel owner gave us 2 khymer scarves as a consolation for disturbance. The trip was good with interesting countryside and punctuated by 3 stops one of which involved the driver getting his meal as no doubt a thank you for bringing a bus load of passengers.
We took a walk last night to the centre of activity here Sisowath Quay on the river bank where the Mekong flows past the city. It was a pleasant place to be on the evening. Our other main vist here so far was to the National Museum where a lot of the delicate artifacts from Angkor have ended up.
As a Vietnam 30 day visa takes 3 days to process we have had to rejig our schedule and now leave here on 3rd and go to Sihanoukville on the Gulf of Thailand for 3 days near to the beach to relax!! before coming back to PP on 6th and going to Ho Chi Minh City on 7th.
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