4.th day

Day 4 in Phnom Penh.
I woke up early this morning, feeling refreshed. The weather felt less hot somehow, maybe I got used to it?
I had scrambled egg and breadroll with English tea for breakfast and then I cycled with even more confidence then yesterday to What Phnom.
It was interesting but also difficult to handle, because it is so popular and such a major tourist attraction in PP, that lots of streetchildren, beggars and krippels are there. At some point I even had the feeling to be surrounded by young man, keeping an eye on me. So I removed myself from there quite quickly. It didn’t feel good. Although I saw an elephant riding tourists around the What.

I then cycled to the tourture museum and it took me probably more then 1 hour to find it.

Toul Sieng Genocide Museum

But because of that, I saw again another side from PP.
The museum-trip was really sad though.

Toul Sieng Genocide Museum

I don’t know what to say about it, it is unbelievable what people can do to their own people, including children.

Toul Sieng Genocide Museum

I felt quite depressed afterwards and went then into a little local restaurant and had some great curry with a veg called: morning glory.

I really want to take more pictures, but somehow I feel like I’m picturing just how poor everybody is and I feel quite embaressed. Also sometimes I feel not very confident, beeing on my own as a white European lockalike…

On my way back I stumbeled on What Laka.

What Laka

Although I was the only person around, a guard let me in and a monch showed me around. Beautiful paintings and Buddas.

What Laka inside

Finally Noel showed me this Internet café and I’m so happy to get through to the outside world and show you how it looks like. That is important to me.

My adress will be:

Katja Horsch
VSO programme office
PO Box 912
Phnom Penh
Cambodia

Mail takes around 6 to 10 days to get there. They’ll sent it to me to Stung Treng then.
I even have a mobile phone number. Just don’t know the Cambodian number at the beginning:

089223548. I don’t expect you to call me, prob. Too expensive.

What Laka

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katja-horsch on May 10, 2009 from Phnom Penh, Cambodia

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the 4th day in PP

Phnom Penh, Cambodia