Sunday, January 26, 2003

Firstly, Jen is all excited because despite not having our baby out here we now have a reef named after him. Yes that's right, just off the coast of Cambodia there is an 'Oscar's Reef'. Jen got this opportunity to name the reef because she had to do the early morning dive on day 2, and it had never been dived before.

Thanks for all your emails - sorry it's taking a while to respond to them all, but we tend to go online every other day roughly. We are now in Phnom Penh which I guess you would describe as busy, poverty stricken with beggars in alot of areas but also has it's unique, interesting parts. That said it's only a whistle-stop tour as we are off to Siem Reap tomorrow (early ferry) to go to the temples at Angkor, which we are sure will be one of the highlights of the trip.

In PP we have been to the Killing Fields, which was pretty harrowing, for those of you that don't know, 17,000 innocent people were tortured and then taken there to be killed for crimes like 'being educated' or 'wearing glasses' under Pol Pot's Maoist regime. We also went to the former prison where they were totured which is now a museum. There were some pretty horrific images as I am sure you can imagine. This afternoon we are going to the Royal Palace and Silver Pagoda before a couple of drinks in our favourite nightspot (the FCC - Foreign Correspondants Club), hopefully meeting up with a Canadian couple we met with last night who we got on really well with.

Hotel is functional but basic, but hey what do you expect for 12 USD a night (about 8 GBP).

Onto Angkor - will post another later in the week, and in case it isn't before Tuesday - HAPPY BIRTHDAY PATRICK!!!

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