Early wake up, bus from 07:30. After a normal bustrip of more then 5 hours we arrived in the big city of Pnohm Phen. This place looks like a real city. The tuktuk drivers a pushing again just when the bus arrived. They even wrote down some our names on a piece of paper if like they made an appointment with us. But we decided to take a free tuktuk, because we told them we would gop with them to the killing fields for a few dollars. We stay at the Boeng Kak Area in of of the lakeview guesthouses...well, it once was a lake... Since 2008 they are redeveloping this area and they are pumping out the lake. The sunsets are shit and not as many people told 'not to be missed' a long time ago. But this place is alot cheaper then the town center guesthouses. 3 USD instead of at least 18 USD.

We had some time left to visit the Killing Fields, also known as the extermination / genocide camp of Choeung Ek. Here the regime of Pol Pot excecuted thousands of people on a brutal way. Between 1976 en 1979 many people (including women and children) were tortured and put into massgraves. Around 9.000 bodies were found. Nowadays they only real remainings that you can see are the trees that the used for slamming the babies to death and some of the clothes and weapons. You can still see some clothes and bones coming out in one of the 43 untouched graves here. Around 8000 skulls and bones are shown in a huge monumental stupa. There are no other signs of these horrors (no buildings), but you can read some information on site. After this confrontating afternoon nobody was in a really good mood.

We had dinner in one of the many Indian restaurants in the Boeng Kak area. 2 USD all you can eat, cheap. But after this night you will know that this area has completely lost his backpackervibe. TRhe bars are filled with stoned and drunken locals (many too young). I'm feeling sicker with the day, so I went to sleep and I will get some anti-biotics tomorrow.