• Phnom Penh Cambodia - breakfast in hotel
  • View of street market from our balcony
  • Typical street market
  • This is Kosal, a Tut Tut driver that became our friendHe is taking us to a boat owner he knows for a boat ride on the Mekong river
  • Our exclusive boat
  • The Captain & Owner
  • This is her sonHe brought us beer and nuts on the house
  • Typical friendly street stallKosal bought us a coconut on the way back
  • Part of nthe huge Central Market
  • Part of the Royal Palace
  • In the grounds of the Palace with a guide
  • Gill behind a gate
  • Entrance to one of the many Killing FieldsThe terrible period of the Khmer Rouge
  • 1 of more than 20,000 mass grave sites
  • 1.7 million people killed over 4 years
  • And this is one of the many prisons
  • An example of individual cells
  • Thousands were tortured in these prisonsThe Khmer Rouge were removed by the Vietnamese army in 1979
  • We met one of the survivorsHe was a carpenter, useful to the regime
  • Kosal invited us to spend the Cambodian New Year with his family at his homeHe picked us up, then across the river on a ferry and a fair way the other side
  • One of his daughters at his home
  • His Father in Law
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  • Pre dinner drinksKosal with wife, brothers and brother in law's
  • On the way to a New Year festivalShaky ride affecting focus
  • All dressed for the occasion
  • The festival
  • Visit to the National Museum
  • Went to a show, story telling through dance
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  • Last day spent at the Hotel pool on the top floor
  • On our way home from our long winter awayLots of memories from Australia and 3 Asian countries.