Another Day to Help me Realize how shitty poeple can be

Phnom Penh
April 25, 2009
7:43 pm

SO first of all just to let everyone know we leave for Siem Real tomorrow for a five hour drive. While we are there we will be visiting Ankor Wat, which is a highlight of Cambodia. I am so excited about that.

Today we had a very busy day. Left the hotel at about 8am and went about visiting the Kings Palace, a high school that they converted to a torture facility for about 17000 people, which only 12 people servived from. The most somber part of the day was seeing the killing fields where Thousands upn thousands of people died. A very strange place. They excavated all of the skulls and put those in a tomb that you can visit. The rest of the bones are still there and scattered all about the area. And I mean all about. As you walk around you are stepping on teeth and leg bones sticking out of the ground. It was hard to get through. The absolute hardest part was the killing tree that they used to smash childrens skulls against to kill them. I believe a couple thousand of children died like that. I hope that I never see anything like that again but I was glad to see it. It really puts life into perspective and lets you know the worst of humanity instead of only seeing the best such as temples and museums.

Its hard to post pictures right now but I will try and get some of those out as soon as possible. My best to everyone.