Today we visited Tuol Sleng genocide museum and the Killing Fields.
I've done separate, if somewhat sparse, entries on this.
After that morning, I think all of us were just about ready to drink ourselves into oblivion. Instead, we ate some great local food (including Amok) at Ramdeng; a local charity restaurant that trains homeless people to cook and serve. The food was excellent and they also had a gift shop where I paid USD10 for a diary of recycled paper with a cover of recycled car tyres. They're made by local women to get money to send their kids to school.
Have I mentioned yet that the Cambodians use US dollars? If something is less than $1 they give you change in Riels but otherwise it's USD all the way.
Jo and I went for a walk after lunch to find the impressive Central Market. We failed. We suck.
So instead I went to the not-quite-well-catalogued National Museum. Good collection but the curating needs some work.
About 3pm I walked back to the hotel and collapsed from the heat - after walking up seven flights of stairs because the lifts were broken. It was, as Jo put it later, a real 'Mad Dogs and Englishman' moment,
And then it was time for dinner - but that's another post.
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