b-b-b-b-back to bangkok

woohoo!! phuket in a week psych! leaving phnom penh today, just went out to killing fields it wasnt as hectic as s-21 i dont know why cos hundreds of people were murdered there and you could see all the mass graves that have been excavated, i think because people are just wandering around its hard to imagine it as it was. but there are cases full of skulls that they have recovered and they have a picture of an australian guy that was killed during the khmer rouge which is pretty hectic.
siem reap was incredible, easily one of the most amazing things iv seen on my trip i had no idea how huge it was. all the carving and detail is so impressive. seeing it from the sky in the hot air balloon was cool too, we got a to see the pretty sunset as well. also saw the sunrise over angkor wat. on our last night in siem reap it was also the end of the water festival (cambodians have the most public holidays in the world, since iv been here they had 3 days off for the kings birthday, 2 days for independance day and 3 for water festival) so there were fireworks and heaps of local people around the river, and the celebrations in siem reap were apparently tiny compared to the capital, so v.glad we werent in phnom penh it would have been crazy. went and saw a cello performance by this swiss doctor who came to cambodia in the early 70's and left when the khmer rouge entered phnom penh, but returned to set up a childrens hospital in the 80's. now he has set up 5 hospitals (incl one in siem reap). anyway he plays cello to raise funds/awareness and so he played then showed us a film about it all, its ridiculous how crap the cambodian health system is, ie his hospitals are 6% funded by cambodian govt, 8% by swiss govt, the rest by public donations. it was really incredible what he has done. after that we went back to town and had a drink, then we were walking home and this guy came up to us and, expecting to hear "lady you want tuktuk???" we just started saying no, but then he goes "hey lady, you want to get STOOOONED?" haha laughed so much we were just like whaaat. ha good. (obviously said no mum)
k so bangkok 2nite new group trip 2moro all is sweeeet, didnt find fone but thats cool, will try and sort something out when in thailand. x