Phnom Penh and pyjama'd grown-ups

Following our departure from 4000 Islands we had the border crossing with Cambodia to negotiate involving the usual bribing of border police for entry/exit fees for stamps your passport.. Em and I both managed to avoid paying their fees following our pleads of poverty.

We made our way into the capital city Phnom Penh over the course of 3 days stopping in the Riverside towns of Stung Treng and Kratie... bizarrely the Cambodians seem to love wearing their pyjamas around town and on bus... there was even a kid 7-8 years old with no trousers on.. so his circumcised penis was on display for the whole of the bus to see..

Phnom Penh itself is a somewhat manic city, lots of tuk-tuk drivers everywhere and lots of motor bikes on the roads. Em and I made the usual tourist trips to the markets and interesting to the former prision of S-21 where the Khmer Rouge tortured & murdered unwanted elements during their rule in the 1970s, this was pretty chilling as the holding cells have been left exactly as they were found in 1979 including some of the crude instruments of torture that we used. We decided to skip out a visit to the Killing Fields were most of the dead were buried.

Next stop is 3 days of temple visiting in Siem Reap.

written by

Michael Russell on June 9, 2009 from Phnom Penh, Cambodia

from the travel blog: Escape from Blighty

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so no docking for him then.

sorry.

written by Rob Hudson on June 17, 2009

you are so lucky to visit these nice places...
thank you for posting this, I'm going to go there myself in the nearest future

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wow-traveler on October 7, 2009

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