Wow. Even having been to the Killing Fields of Choung Ek and Tuol Sleng Prison before, they are just as haunting a second time around. They are mostly for the tourists, however, as we were told on more than one occassion that a lot of Cambodians want to put the whole experience of the Khmer Rouge era behind them.
Khmer New Year was loud and for those celebrating it sounded like a whole lot of fun, We didn’t see a great deal on the streets of Phnom Penh, but heard plenty from the private houses where families gathered to celebrate and turn the volume up to eleven until the early hours of the morning.
New Year means a lot of the city is closed for around a week meaning the day after new years celebrations was a bit quiet so we wandered around trying to stay cool before heading off to Switzerland..
