Please view these next three posts on a laptop or computer…photos deserve more than your phone.

My February time in Cambodia and the Philippines seems so very long ago and far away. I wasn’t quite my normal travel self, but my equally travel-obsessed son Scott was with me so it all turned out quite splendidly. What follows are three photo album posts: Phnom Penh, Siem Reap, and Manila (Philippines). Not many words, just interesting images. I read over my journal notes from that time to see if there might be something important to share. Turns out I was still experiencing post election, inauguration, traumatic stress symptoms (I say that seriously–no joking left for what’s happening). Now, I’m able to step back, for at least part of everyday…and voila, here’s Phnom Penh.

This post covers the delights of Phnom Penh, but also the sites of the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum and the Choeung Ek Genocidal Center. Both sites display the horrors of Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge which conducted a genocide against Cambodians with an education and/or positions of importance for the latter half of the 70s. The rest of the world did little to nothing to stop the slaughter, and in fact the Khmer Rouge retained a role in the government of Cambodia even after its formal overthrow by Vietnamese troops in 1979. Pol Pot’s regime was as brutal as any government program that has ever existed.