We are just enjoying some
Toast and jam! we slept almost until 11 which was glorious, we are both feeling much better for it. The smell is still quite nauseating but not as bad as yesterday. There are around 12000 french people living in phnom penh now, and supposedly the city is a culinary hotspot- you can certainly spend a lot of money here if you want to. We have debated in our heads whether or not to visit the tuel sleung memorial museum- which is the school that was turned into a prison/torture headquarters during the lates 70's- the capital was completely removed of all the inhabitants and they were sent to the countryside to slave away growing food etc. the capital was left with only khmer rouge members, and prisoners with no chance of freedom. The killing fields are also nearby but i dont think we will go. Its been a bit of a moral dilemma for me: on one hand i feel its important to see, to give voice to the things that have happened and show the people that we know about it (thiugh could never begin to understand fully) and on the other hand it feels like another tourist site- turning a place where the locals still go to see if they can recognise faces of loved ones into a box on a tick list- i feel similarly about the concentration camps.
So we shall see. There is a tuk tuk driver waiting for us outside and we will see where the daytakes us...
Good to hear you're both feeling brighter, being ill on holiday is never nice especially when on a long bus ride! On the bright side, you've probably hit the worst bit (plus being acclimatised to the poverty, not to say it's normal).
ReplyDeleteKeep drinking bottled water (that's not been opened), Coke, and avoid meats in 'local' places!
We felt the same about going to the Hiroshima museum and in the end decided that we didn't need to see it. Ditto concentration camps.
Enjoying your posts, keep it up!
Hello travelers,
ReplyDeleteSorry to hear you have not been well, can only imagine how awful it would have been for you both. Really enjoying your posts and look forward to sharing your next adventure!!
Love The Friths xx
Its good to hear that you two are feeling better...
ReplyDeleteI so look forward to your posts and hearing your thoughts on what you are experiencing...
Keep up your smile Jess...Love Mom
Nothing like toast, ime still ploughing through boxes of wheatabix i buy from a shop in Limassol, its not quite as 'off the track' as wear you have been here in Cyprus.
ReplyDeleteI personally would give those horrid places a miss, wear did you go in the end?