Cambodia Archives - Marnie Johnston

March 2, 2015September 1, 2015

A different perspective on life from Siem Reap, Cambodia

Things you must do when visiting Siem Reap:

Explore the floating cities on Tonlé Sap Lake.
Check out the temples surrounding Siem Reap – don’t forget Ta Prohm, where Lara Croft Tomb Raider was filmed.
Watch the sunrise at Angkor Wat.

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February 22, 2015September 1, 2015

A somber trip to the Killing Fields – Phnom Penh, Cambodia

A graveyard where thousands of people – men, women, and children – died a brutal death and lay forgotten, just one of many carcasses in a hole in the ground.

Choeung Ek is one of the multiple sites in Cambodia where collectively more than a million people were killed and buried by the Communist Khmer Rouge regime, during its rule of the country from 1975 to 1979, immediately after the end of the Cambodian Civil War. Continue reading “A somber trip to the Killing Fields – Phnom Penh, Cambodia”