Phnom Penh

We arrived at 10pm at Phnom Penh airport. It was good we got our visas done before we came as the queue was huge. After the initial scare that Rosies bag might have got lost en route, we met our driver and he walked us to his tuk-tuk. It was about a 30min drive to the Okay guest house where we are now staying.

Today we walked to a big market an nearly died of the heat on the way. In the market we both bought a hat, pretty sure we got ripped off as I payed less in Primark.

After the market we got a tuk-tuk to the Wat Phnom, which is a smallish temple on a little hill in the middle of Phnom Penh.



After lunch we took a trip to Tuol Slenj, one of Pol Pots torture prisons. It was pretty grim, there were photos of the dead on the walls and blood still on the ceiling of the prisoners cells.

We had dinner at 54 Langeach Sros (or "Fresh Evening"), it is a cool Khmer beer garden. We had BBQ prawns which we were meant to cook ourselves but i think the waitress felt sorry for our us so she cooked them for us. We also had Morning Glory, which are fried vegetables and these were cooked in snail oil. For main we had grilled pork ribs which were out of this world. They were also a few intriguing tree-ant dishes and frog's legs. Jugs of Angkor, the local beer were only 9,000 riel. Food is much cheaper than chips out here.



We have just had breakfast and we planned to go to Chi Phat but missed the morning bus. We didnt mind as we didnt go to the killing fields yesterday so spent the morning there.


We about to get a bus to Chi Phat, a small village in the jungle. There is no electricity there so see you soon.