Sunday 29 July 2007

KILLING FIELDS OF CAMBODIA and Phnom Pehn today

...this tree and the message sent cold chill down our spines... and really made us shiver...
...this message made us shout silentley inside...WHAT WAS IT ALL ABOUT AND WHY???...this happened because UNCLE SAM looked the other way again...
...register your name here just before you are bludgen to death...

...129 communal graves...43 are left untouched... one grave contained 266 headless corpses...the torsos are believed to be in one of the untouched graves...
...very traumatic really as you are walking on bits of human bones and clothings scattered all around you...graves are left as they were found and for good reason as it does make one feel real sorrow and angry too...
...graves left as they were found with bits of clothings and bones...
...walking up the steps to face over 8000 skulls...and makes you feel that you are intruding and that they are watching you and reminding you to make sure this never happens again to anyone else...but its happening even today in DAFOUR...and yes ...UNCLE SAM is looking the other way yet again...
...you can hear the silent screams when you look at the blood stained clothes...
...one thing about this visit was that ...it was absolute quiet and still and no wind and no one exchange any words with anyone and you remain quiet even long after you have left this KILLING FIELDS and visit really is traumatic...
...below MEMORIAL STUPA containing over 8000 skulls...
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...PHNOM PEHN today...

...street life in Phnom Pehn...
...another form of transport for us...
...re-make of SHOLAY...
...yeh dosti hum nahi torenge...torenge tum magar tera saath na chorenge...


...this place as others in Cambodia bakes a SPECIAL PIZZA with SPECIAL HERB...
...and you can laugh and laugh and be happy as you eat your SPECIAL PIZZA and with couple of beers you can even fly...you know what I mean!
...it goes without saying that we did not experience this feeling as we ate next door...we heard this from other travellers...if you know what I mean...... P ! FOR THE LAST TIME WILL YOU PLEASE STOP LAUGHING,said Dipak as he flew beside the Tuk Tuk on the way to the hotel...
...street life...

...another WAT?...
...Royal Palace as seen from main road through the railings...my two girls were refused entry not once but twice in two days to enter the Palace grounds as they were deemed not to be wearing appropriate dress...apart from wearing BURKHA,we dont know what else the girls would have worn to satisfy the over zealous gurds...we refused to try for a third time and so Cambodia lost 60,000 Riels in revenue as our entry fee...
...by the way as they sell you the entry tickets , at the same time they try to sell you 3 US T-Shirt to cover your shoulder -even if your shoulders are well covered...
...we failed to see logic behind this little scam...
...Cambodia is very poor and of extreme poverty and there are too many scams that traps tourist needlessly...


...palace as seen from far awwaaayyyyy!

... we believe this has some 100 tonnes of silver floor tiles,but as its inside the palace grounds ,we did not see it...

...The magical site in all over Cambodia in the morning when monks walk the street receiving alms...

...receiving blessings after giving alms(money,food etc)...
...she needs all the help she can get...

...flying monk...


...more monks...

















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