The Royal Palace, a pagoda with the floor covered with five thousand silver tiles, the Choeung Ek killing fields, a little snake, the Tuol Sleng detention and torture center, a lively market and 2000 years of history in the National Museum.
I had feared seeing the killing fields and the old school in Phnom Penh which thousands of prisoners passed through and of whom only seven, yes seven, survived. And it was a difficult experience. I somehow found it typical that the third snake I have seen in nature in my whole life suddenly appeared in front of my feet in the killing fields. It was just a very tiny one, but still.
I couldn't take pictures, it felt disrespectful to take glossy photos of places which had seen such cruelty.
The barbed wire around the detention and torture centre is still there.
I had feared seeing the killing fields and the old school in Phnom Penh which thousands of prisoners passed through and of whom only seven, yes seven, survived. And it was a difficult experience. I somehow found it typical that the third snake I have seen in nature in my whole life suddenly appeared in front of my feet in the killing fields. It was just a very tiny one, but still.
I couldn't take pictures, it felt disrespectful to take glossy photos of places which had seen such cruelty.
The barbed wire around the detention and torture centre is still there.
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