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 Friday, June 19, 2009 @ 09:44
cambodia day 4 (phnom penh) it was a slow day for day 4. basically phnom penh can be covered in a day and our tour could have been completed in 4 days instead of 5.  a walk around the hotel grounds after breakfast. the spread was small and mostly cambodian (i prefer western). had a bad stomachache after eating the breakfast. our first stop was s21, which i didn't take any pictures of. the genocide museum offered lots of insights, documentation and preserved prison cells regarding the khmer rouge regime. it was really worth a trip down. surprisingly, it's right smack in the city (i thought it would near the outskirts). we met one of the two surviving survivors of the prison. he is now a guide at the museum. next we headed on to the killing fields, which is 15km from the city (approximately 20 minutes).  this is the monument to commemorate the victims of the genocide. you don't need any guide for this place. they have lots of signs all over the area. being interested in history, i had so much expectations of the place and it was kind of a let down. the killing fields were the size of a football field with huge pits all around. there was no sense of history unlike s21 and i felt like we were there just to see holes in the ground. russian market was closed! so there goes our afternoon. we headed towards central market instead.   once you been to one market, you have basically been to all markets in cambodia. we went to old and central market in siem reap and they are exact replicas of this one. the shops are selling the same things, for example kharma scarves, baggy pants (made in thailand) and sunglasses. lunch at tole bassac restaurant. it was a buffet and the layout of the place was big and nicely decorated. food leaves something to be desired but the desserts... yum!   since we had the whole afternoon free (4 hours before dinner), parv and i went for a massage afterwards. took a tuktuk back (1USD/person).   dinner at this jungle theme cambodian restaurant. sitting concept in aircon area. food was very bad and servings extremely small. the chicken doesn't even taste or look like chicken. parv said it's pigeon. very dubious.   nagaworld, one of the biggest casino in the land. it's small compared to genting. imagine the scale if you have been to las vegas. there were no shops there and the game floor offered little choices. so parv and i bought desserts from one of the restaurants and headed back to our hotel to celebrate her birthday.  here's the birthday girl posing with her present and ice cream cake. Labels: birthdays, friends, holidays |