Another one of those posts where I'm not going to describe much in detail because I would'nt be able to do it justice.
Pretty much the only thing I wanted to do in Phnom Penh was go to the Killing Fields. I met up with a girl who I was travelling with in Thailand for a bit and another girl and we got a tuk-tuk out to the site.
For those who dont know the Killing Fields are a number of sites in Cambodia where large numbers of people were killed and buried by the Khmer Rouge regime, during its rule of the country from 1975 to 1979, right after the Cambodian Civil War.
The way that the had the Killing Fields was really nicely laid out. You pay $5 to get in and that gets you an audio guide and a map.
The audio guide was great, much better than a regular guide would be because you could go at your own pace and listen to things again if you liked.
Listening to it while you walk around and observe the sites is a very interesting experience because most of the building and things that used to be there aren't any more so you look at an open field and visualize what used to be there as they described it in the guide.
It also had lots of recordings from real people and their experienced.
I think We spent about an hour and a half going through all the stories.
Pictures:
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| mass graves |
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| building where they keep the many bones, sculls, and clothing |
The next day I went to the S-21 museum which was a school that was converted to a prison during the Khmer Rouge and was used to torture and kill innocent people.
You could walk around and they had artefacts of the things that they used to have in each room.
Photos of the people they they had trained and brainwashed into torturing the prisoners
When the prison was shut down there was only 7 survivors left. This man was one of them.
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