We only stayed two nights in PP which wasn’t enough time to see the whole capital but was enough time to feel the hectic-ness of the place as well as the heat and poverty.
We visited two of the main sites – Killing Fields and Prison. Not the cheereast of sites – basically the two were memorials of when Pol Pot ruled and tortured/killed thousands of Cambodians in an attempt to establish an agricultural society. Very moving and also shocking knowing this went on in our life time. The Prison (a former high school) is where civilians, monks, military people – you name it, were taken to be basically tortured before being transported to the Choeung Eg (killing fields) to be massacred. Only a few years ago some of the mass graves were unearthed retrieving c. 9000 remains (out of c. 17,000 suspected bodies) – the skulls of these were on show case in the stupa.
Whilst in PP we also paid a brief visit to Adele’s old school and although a little later in the day than we had hoped, on Adele’s behalf got a little revenge.
Next to the beach in southern Cambodia……
