Today we got a tuk tuk ride around the city. From the doorstep of our hotel we went to The Killing Fields in Choeung Ek. After that, we visited the Toul Slang Genocide Museum.
The first thing we had to do today was haggle with the tuk tuk driver for the price of all the trips. He would be taking us to each location and back just waiting for us to go round the museums. We read you could do this tuk tuk ride for $15 but he wouldn’t go any lower than $20, so agreed on that price and set off. Not annoying at all because it is hardly expensive for the amount of time that you have the driver for anyway!
We set off before 9am to try and get a lot of the day done before it was too hot. So after a 30 minute tuk tuk, we arrived at The Killing Fields for an audio tour. This is highly recommended if you are thinking of going to Cambodia. It is difficult to listen to the atrocities that took place here, but you wouldn’t do the country justice of you did not give this a visit! Not to sound too ignorant, but, I had no idea of the scale and severity of what went in here in the mid-to-late ’70s.
Next up, after several close calls and a lot of weaving through traffic, we arrived at the Genocide Museum S21. Again, this was eye-opening. Well worth the visit of you are interested and haven’t been! This museum is mainly indoors (as it takes you through the prisoners cells and things out of the sun) so it would he best to do this one after the The Killing fields if you wanted to do what we did and do them both on the same day.
If you are in Cambodia and want to get an idea of what the Cambodian people have gone through, then this is a must! It is amazing that they went through this atrocity and still have a happy spirit and welcoming demeanour.
Full list of Vietnam / Cambodia videos can be found here on Youtube
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