Friday started with a visit to Cambodia’s recent history. The Tuol Sleng museum in town is a former school that was turned into a prison by the Khmer Rouge. They used it to ‘interrogate’ political opponents and interrogation here as the same meaning as with the catholic inquisition. Those unlucky enough to end up here […]
Phnom Penh
Left Bangkok at 3:30 in mildly cloudy weather. Really felt sad about leaving Thailand as I had such an amazing time. The flight to Phnom Penh takes a little over an hour and about 20 minutes before our arrival the weather changed. Nothing like sitting in an airplane that’s heading for a tropical thunderstorm. We […]
People in Cambodia
Playing around with all that sliders in Adobe Lightroom turned some shots presentable that were formerly not properly exposed and that I didn’t wanted to put online. Now here’s some (late) impressions from the streets of Cambodia.
Recent Cambodian History
Before I came to Asia I didn’t know much about Cambodia and would have had trouble pointing it out on a map. All I knew was that it’s somewhere in Asia, has some massive temples and some kind of war going on. Well the later isn’t true any more, that was just a fact I […]
Sightseeing
Yesterday I hired a tuk-tuk to have a look at same places near Battambang. I went with an ‘independent’ driver who was recommended to me by the French expats. Independent means that he’s working in the streets like you would expect it and doesn’t hang out in front of the tourist hotels hoping for big […]
Battambang
My guest house organized a bus ticket to Battambang for me and with the usual slight delay I was picked up and transported to the main bus station this morning. The place is basically a big hall with a couple of buses and merchants trying to sell fruit, bread and other stuff. Quite similar to […]