2 weeks vacation - Phnom Penh, Kambodia

We have started our 2 week vacation trip with Marlen and now we have ended our first part of our trip Phnom Penh, Kambodia! The other places will be Ko Samui, Thailand, Cebu, Philippines and Hong Kong China ! :)

The trip has started very well, although our first flight was late 1,5hours and our driver today morning didn't show up to the hotel! And we had to take the taxi from the hotel for 10US$.. Although the taxi was already included to our trip. Well we just have to send email to the travel agency and say we want our money from the transport.

Phnom Penh is a very nice city, I could go there again. :) On Saturday we woke up already at 6:30 to breakfast and we started our sightseeing tour with our own guide at 7:30 :) We had a long day but it was worth it! First we headed tot he Killing fields at Cheoung Ek because it was situated out of the town. It did silence me because they had killed and tortured many thousand innocent people there, and they had the skulls showing in the vitrins.. The texts said that they had beaten babies against the trees until they were dead :( But the site was kind of beautiful in a weird way :)

The skulls

The tree where they beat the babies until they were dead

From there we continued to the Russian market to do some shopping :) I got new "haremtrousers" black coloured very cheap price! They are so great! I also got 3 new pashmina scarves. One as a souvenir :) One cost under 3euros :D There would have been so much to buy and see but the time was going by so quickly that we had to continue to the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum which is also related to the Killing Fields and the Pot Plot which was behind all the terror and the killings in Kambodia in 1975..

The rooms where they kept the prisoners(victims)

Hanging&drowning place for the victims

We had our lunch in a local Buffet which had a lot of seafood(Nothing for me), some noodles(fried&boiled), Fried rice and steamed one, fruits, bread, chicken and some weird things.. I think the place was quite popular among locals, but for me it was too expensive 'cause I couldn't eat so much..

After this there was the independence statue just to take pictures. The next stop was the Was Phnom, which was just a temple, just like almost every buddhist temple. Outside they had done a huge clock on the ground with grass and something else.. It looked nice!

We tried to go to the Royal palace but I didn't have t-shirt with me only a scarf and it was not allowed to go inside like that. That was kind of weird thing 'cause u can go inside every temple like that and I think they are more sacred than a palace.. Instead of that we went to sit in the park next to the palace 'cause our driver went to change a car. And of course I burned myself (face and arms) :/

Last but not least we went to see the Central market. The main building was beautiful but I didn't buy anything from there. The market was quite similar to the Russian market, but there were more locals also. The tour took 9,5 hours so it was really tiring day. After getting back to hotel, we had shower and slept a while and then headed to eat at the river front area. The motorbike taxi driver was quite confused when we hopped off the ride and I only gave him 1US$ dollar for both of us, because he thought he would get 2 or 3 dollars. He didn't quite understand English so well.. :D The look in his face was priceless, but the fee was the normal that I paid, cause the evening before we paid 2US$ for longer trip back to our hotel. So he had quite high tax,Haha! If U wanna cheat someone,don't pick me :)

The guys in the street was all the time yelling Tuk-Tuk mam!! It was so annoying that can't be. They really saw that we are walking and we want to walk, but still they just shout.. Damn! But I think it is also the same in Thailand, they always shout although u don't wanna Tuk-Tuk. And the journey continues in Ko Samui, Thailand!

Pictures I'll upload when I'm back in Singapore!!