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…
So… I ended my marathon saga this year by joining the Angkor Wat Marathon last week. I don’t exactly remember how the idea of joining it had come about but I just thought may be it is a good reason to finally visit the Kingdom of Wonder as Cambodia is famously known for.We set out into the dead silence of Siem Reap at thirty past five in the morning when the streets were still empty and people were still soundly…