Cambodia in photos

This is Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum, in Phnom Penh. We arrived in Cambodia in the morning of the 29th, and then spent the day learning about Cambodia's depressing history.
It was sad to think that everyone we met over the age of 30 lived under the Khmer Rouge's opression, and likely knew someone who died. Added to this were the many crippled people and beggars. The next day we took a 6 hour bus to Siem Reap, home of Angkor Wat to soak in some ancient history, less depressing. This is Ankor Wat at sunrise, shortly after we toured, we went back to bed to resume our tour 2 hours later.
And here is Ankor Wat at sunset, complete with monk. There were monks all over the place, checking things out, taking photos, doing the tourist thing.

A closer look at the detail of the walls. This is at Bayon, but nearly all of the temples have the same amount of meticulous detailing.

Me at Ta Phrom-- this shows how much work has been done to restore the temples, and this is also home of some scenes from Lara Croft. Our last stop of the day was the floating village on Tonle Sap- the largest fresh water lake in South East Asia. In this photo you can see some of the fishing set up, and in the back ground is a gym. It was really interesting to visit, but it also fell on the trap of scamming tourists. We were guilted into spending over $15 USD on notebooks and pencils (worth a max of maybe $5) for students-- and once we got to the school we saw that they weren't even using them. Frustrating.

The next morning we caught another 6 hour bus ride back to Phnom Penh (this time we were lucky enough to enjoy 3 straight hours of traditional Cambodian music videos!), and then caught a flight to Bangkok.