I took a couple of days off and went to Phnom Penh and back by bus, which took 6 hours each way.
Phnom Penh is bigger, noisier, dirtier and has much more traffic than Siem Reap. It had to be experienced but I was glad to get back.
The S21 genocide museum based at the old school that was used as a prison by the Khmer Rouge and where they documented and took pictures of the atrocities carried out is not only very sad and sobering but helps you to understand that the Cambodian economy and society were almost completely destroyed and why Cambodia is still recovering from this today.
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