Previously on my trip to Cambodia, I started off the day by visiting the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum and see for myself how Pol Pot had turned a school into a prison and used it as the torturing camp for those who had the slightest sign of treachery against him. Bear in mind that most of the killings in the infamous genocide didn’t happen there. Instead, they were committed in a place 17 km south of Phnom Penh, in a…
It would be our first day in Phnom Penh so the excitement was sky-rocketing. We had arranged with the hostel to arrange a Tuk Tuk for a one day tour to the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum and Choeung Ek (The Killing Field) for which we’d pay USD15. Our Tuk Tuk driver was a stocky man probably in his late 30’s and although he didn’t speak much English, he seemed to understand every word that we said. The Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum…
Ian Wright wrote in the Globe Trekker’s website that of all the places that he had been to as a host for the popular travel TV series, his favorite place is Phnom Penh the capital city of Cambodia. Samantha Brown, the host of Passport to Europe and later Samantha Brown’s Asia had openly declared in her blog that Cambodia is her favorite country in Asia as well. So, coming from two people who have probably scaled every nook and corner…