Death Camp S21
This week I break away from temples as was in PP & could not miss S21 so here it is. Temple romps will be back next week.
Over 20,000 entered only 7 survived. The Khmer Rouge at their very worse. I even meet one of the 7 survivors, which is incredible. A tough one to film, but it is there to teach us all.
S21 Death Camp
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I went to S21 for the first and only time at the end of January in 2003 with my Taiwanese girlfriend... We arrived like January 28, the day before local Cambodians trashed the Thai embassy in Phnom Penh... But generally, back in 2003, Phnom Penh was really very quiet... Wow, you could walk down the street and wait half a minute for a car or tuk-tuk to come by on the major roads... Haha... We were eating in a Mexican resto near one of the major roundabouts and encountered a friendly staffer from the U.S. embassy on lunch break... He was telling us a bit more about the ongoing riots... He said it had happened before, so not to worry too much...
Also, I remember from that 2003 trip, when my GF and I visited the Royal Palace compound, we waited for a certain hour in the afternoon, about 2 or 3, and sure enough, King Norodom Sihanouk and his wife came out to wave at us tourists from across the compound behind their house... Kate and I waved back... That was long ago, and yet I still remember everything about that trip: the boat ride up to Siem Riep on long, narrow and noisy fast boat... Also, renting a motorcycle and riding around Angkor Wat for three days... Nobody was there: no kiosks of tourist stuff and no crowds anywhere...
My GF did get annoyed when I insisted on buying 40 grams of weed from a guy on the street and mailing it back to myself in Taiwan sealed in a small hollow tin head souvenir that I bought at the Siem Riep market... It arrived intact about three months later... I had sealed the bottom of the tin head with plaster of paris to make it look finished that way before mailing, haha...
BTW, I think that "magic in the air" may possibly be inversely proportional to one's age? Lol...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_Phno ... Shinawatra.
Also, I remember from that 2003 trip, when my GF and I visited the Royal Palace compound, we waited for a certain hour in the afternoon, about 2 or 3, and sure enough, King Norodom Sihanouk and his wife came out to wave at us tourists from across the compound behind their house... Kate and I waved back... That was long ago, and yet I still remember everything about that trip: the boat ride up to Siem Riep on long, narrow and noisy fast boat... Also, renting a motorcycle and riding around Angkor Wat for three days... Nobody was there: no kiosks of tourist stuff and no crowds anywhere...
My GF did get annoyed when I insisted on buying 40 grams of weed from a guy on the street and mailing it back to myself in Taiwan sealed in a small hollow tin head souvenir that I bought at the Siem Riep market... It arrived intact about three months later... I had sealed the bottom of the tin head with plaster of paris to make it look finished that way before mailing, haha...
BTW, I think that "magic in the air" may possibly be inversely proportional to one's age? Lol...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_Phno ... Shinawatra.
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