SIAM REAP – EARLY MORNING – AT LEAST IT FELT LIKE IT WAS EARLY – CAUGHT UP WITH THIS BEAUTY – CARLA – WE ALL GOT A BIKE AND CYCLED TO ‘ANGKOR WAT’

EMMA WAS A BIT UNCOMFY WITH HER BIG RIGHT BIKE SO I PREPARED A LITTLE ROADWORTHY TEST FOR HER…RESULTS – SHOCKING



SO BEFORE EVEN GETTING TO FIRST TEMPLE WE HAD TO LISTEN TO A LOT OF COMPLAINS ABOUT THE HEAT AND WHAT SO EVER – SHOCKING 😛
SO A LITTLE JUMP PICTURE WAS NEEDED TO CHEER UP THE MOOD





AND A LOT OF POSING FOR THE CAMERA;;;

SO WE TRIED – BUT WE COULDN’T FIND IT FOR A FE HOURS – TOO MANY TEMPLES AROUND




AND WE FINALLY DID FIND MIGHTY THA PROM TEMPLE



SO WE WERE ALL PRETTY HAPPY THAT WE FOUND THAT TEMPLE – JUST IN TIME FOR SUNSET


WAS TIME TO GET BACK TO THE CITY TO GET A BIG FEED

UNFORTUNATELY THAT WAS THE END OF OUR TIME TOGETHER AND MARIE, EMMA AND MARLA HAD TO GO BACK TO TO BANGKOK TO CATCH A FLIGHT HOME – SHORT – INTENSE – EMOTIONAL – MISS YOU ALL
JOSEF, CARLA AND I HAD TO GET UP EARLY IN THE MORNING – 3AM TO RIDE TO PHNOM PENH AS I NEEDED TO APPLY FOR AN INDIAN VISA THERE AND FRIDAY WAS MY LAST CHANCE BEFORE THE WEEKEND







I QUICKLY RAN INTO THE INDIAN EMBASSY TO DROP OFF PASSPORT AND VISA APPLICATION FORM – LUCKY THT WAS DONE QUICKLY
MORE TIME TO DRINK COFFEE AND EXPLORE MORE OF PHNOM PENH






UNFORTUNATELY CAMBODIA WENT THROUGH A ROUGH TIME IN THE 70’S WHEN THE KHMER REGIME EXECUTED A HUGE AMOUNT OF THE POPULATION. WE WENT TO HAVE A LOOK AT ONE OF THE KILLING FIELDS IN PHNOM PENH

THE KHMER REGIME LED BY POL POT KILLED MORE THAN A MILLION CAMBODIANS IN-BETWEEN 1975 AND 1979

ABOUT 9000 BODIES GOT DISCOVERED AT THIS SITE


THE EXECUTIONERS WERE SHORT OF MUNITIONS AND USED ANY KIND OF METHODS TO KILL THE VICTIMS
SEVERAL SKULLS, ORDERED IN THEIR WAY OF EXECUTION – RANGING FROM STEEL ROD IMPACTS OVER FIREARMS TO STABBING WOUNDS

REST IN PEACE