We got up bright and early, ate breakfast and then we were off. We hired a tuk tuk driver for the day. Tuk tuk are two wheeled carts that attach to small motorcycles. To hire a driver for the dy we only paid $20!!! What a steal I wish I could have a driver everyday in America.
This was not our tuk tuk, but just so you get the idea.
My mom and dad in the tuk tuk
Me and steamer having a jolly good time.
They like motorcycles and scooters in the country, I think.
A cute little Cambodian boy on the motorcycle next to us!!! I wanted to take him home in my suitcase.
My mom was practicing her photography skills on this poor woman. I think she I'd a pretty good job, what do you think?
The first thing on the list to do was to go to the Tuol Sleng prison. This was a torture camp that the Khmer Rouge used during 1975 to 1979. Before that time it was a high school. They would bring people here to interrogate and torture them. Over 20,000 prisoners came through this place and only 7 survived.
Here is a bed that prisoners were chained to. The box was used for the toilet. It is crazy to think that such things happened not that long ago and not many people in the US even know about it.
The people they brought here were accused of being spies. Some were just children! The lady in the picture was our guide. She lost her brother and father during the Khmer Rouge time. She has no idea what happened to them. She was forced to work long hours in the field in order to survive.
This man is one of only two survivors left from the prison. His life was spared because he could use a typewriter and the Khmer Rouge needed him.
After crying a bit we needed to be cheered up so we headed off to do my favorite thing ever, SHOPPING!!! There is a market called the Russian market that is amazing! We spent quite a bit of time there and bought so many fun things.
There are rows and rows of stuff. It is a bit claustrophobic.
After shopping we were off to another sobering place called to killing fields. There are over 300 killing fields in Cambodia. This is where they took the people who they thought were spies or who had education to be killed. They dug mass graves and slaughtered the people before they shoved them in. They didnt even shoot them because they did want to waste a bullet, is whAt the soldiers said.
In the middle of the killing fields is a tower that is filled with skulls of people who died here.
Next thing on the agenda was food.
Delicious!!!
After food my mom really wanted to go to the national museum. It was totally boring to some and I think everyone else, even my mom. The only cool thing was the garden in the middle, it was beautiful.
I love monks!!! Maybe i should become one, except I don't believe any of the same things, that could be a problem.
Another picture of the museum.
Tonight we are off on an adventure to Siem Riep. We are taking an all night bus which will be interesting. Wish us luck!!!
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