October 22nd: Phnom Penh

 
In the morning we took a sobering tour of Pol Pot's main prison and interogation center at Toul Sleng, then visited the main temple in town Wat Phnom. After that we headed out of the city a few miles for a run.
 

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Riverfront from the Star Royal
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Toul Sleng

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The Khmer Rouge were thorough in documenting those they killed
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Leg irons
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Pol Pot, surprisingly only slightly damaged
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Map of torture and mass killing sites
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Crudely built division walls making more small cells as the prison filled up
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John in front of a picture of the killing fields being excavated in 1979
 
 

Temple near Royal Palace

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The obligatory picture of a sleeping cyclo man
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Buddha in different physical stages
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Wat Phnom

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People buy small birds and release them to carry prayers to heaven
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Pool table production Cambodia style
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A grave
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