Cambodia was a little different than I expected. It is a poor country but seems to be very rapidly building and modernizing, and tourism is probably playing a large role as there were a lot of other tourists everywhere I went. Also when I was there I learned a lot about Cambodia’s history, the huge genocide, and about life under the Khmer Rouge regime.

Tuol Sleng
When the Khmer Rouge regime took over the capital city and evacuated its inhabitants, they took a school and turned it into a prison/torture area.

A German friend I met on the bus ride to Phnom Penh.

A typical looking school, yet the insides were very much like a prison.

School gym equipment was used to hang people upside down among other tortures.

The Killing Fields
Just as the name states, a place where there was mass executions and mass graves.

Delicious fried bananas on the way.

A monument completely filled with the skulls of the victims found in the mass graves.

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