Cruising on the Mekong
After a 5 hour bus ride from Siem Reap to Kampong Cham, we board the 160 passenger River Vessel AMA Lotus for the 7 day trip to the Mekong Delta. Highlights include:
A tour of an ancient hilltop pagoda dating from the 6th century, Wat Hanchey.
Walking tour of Ankor Ban, a beautiful old village with traditional Khmer homes.
2 nights in Phnom Penh with a tour of the Royal Palace, The National Museum and the Central Market.
The afternoon is spent in a somber tour of one of the Killing Fields followed by a look at S 21 Detention Center, a former high school divided into small cells and interrogation areas where so called enemies of the Khmer Rouge were held until their executions in the Killing Fields. Here they were tortured and coerced into naming family members and close associates who were in turn arrested in one the worst human tragedies of the last century. Pol Pot, the Hitler of Cambodia, secretly led the Khmer Rouge regime which arrested and eventually executed almost anyone suspected of connections with the former government or with foreign governments, as well as professionals and intellectuals.
See the photos here.
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