Cambodia- Angkor What?

So here I am in Cambodia, after Two days of long rides, one killing field and quite a few temples.

I arrived in Phenom Penh on Friday afternoon, setteld in the guest house and along with Ayelet and Sarit, two girls I met on the bus, went to the Killing fields. I must admit I fell like such an ignorant- I knew nothing of what was going on here only 20 years ago. In two sentences, in favor of those who have no idea what I am referring to- in the mid 80's, after Vitenam backed out of Cambodia, the Khmer Rouge, a guerilla movement terrorized the country in a similar way as Chairman Mao- they executed almost 2 milliom people- mostly foreigners or people who were suspected as high educated (for example- people with eye glasses) after torturing them in camps. Today, one of the biggerst evidence, minus the horrible economic situation, is the killing fields, where one can see mass graves and, quite horrifing, a huge monument made with real humen skulls.

After being there we got back to Phnom Penh (rumor has it it's a capital. No real evidence for that;-)), and went to chack out the riverside.. quite nice.

In general, there is quite a resemblence between Cambodia, Vietnam and Laos- or as they would say- "Same same but different". the local currency in the Real but hell, who am I kidding? it's US Dollars. they are by far more used than the Real.

Yesterday we left Phenom Penh in favor of Siem Reap- which cought me by suroprise. It seemed at first to be a real dump, but turned out to be a very touristic and cool town. Of course, the only reason for that is the fact it is located 8 km from Angkor- the ancient temple center, which is also where I am heading to tomorrow.

after wandering in town for a while I ran into a friend- an Irish guy named Owen and we went to drink with two british girls we both know from difeerent place. It was nice, but man, driking with 3 british really tested my abuilitly to think straight.

Anyway tomorrow we are going to spent the entire day in Angkor. I really hope it's going to be good...