16/04/14
Another not so early start at 9 was followed by another cereal breakfast. I then borrowed a bike, walked down the road to inflate the tyres and headed off towards the Killing Fields (Choeung Ek), following an excellent hand-sketched map drawn by Alastair. The place itself was very quiet and reflective as everyone was deep in their own thought. At the entrance we were given audio guides which led us around the various mass graves and finished at the Memorial pagoda which contained hundreds of skulls and bones of victims. It is estimated that 3 million people were murdered under the Pol Pot regime considering the population was around 8 million it is a sizeable proportion, many of those were children and babies. After leaving I grabbed some lunch then cycled back along the road and continued onto the centre of Phnom Phen, where I booked a bus ticket to take me to Kep tomorrow. I didn't/couldn't cycle back as I had a slow puncture, it apeared that the rubber had perished, so I caught a tuktuk back. It was nice to be out on the bike again even if it was just 25km.
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| Mass graves |
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| A chilling reminder |
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