In the morning, you’ll be driven to visit the most
notorious of the sites associated with ‘The Killing Fields’ starting
with the S21 interrogation centre run by the Khmer Rouge, perversely
situated in a former school, now known as the Tuol Sleng Genocide
Museum, where routine torture was a filthy and ruthless prelude to
execution at sites such as Cheong Ek, your next destination, where the
hapless victims of the regime were compelled to dig the pits within
which they would be buried after execution by brutally primitive means.
One of over 20,000 sites of such horrific memory, true comprehension of
this legacy is likely to be a harrowing experience.
After
lunch, you’ll visit the surviving highlights of the city, previously
known as the ‘Pearl of Asia’ before being entirely emptied of its
evicted populous and almost wholly destroyed by the murderously insane
regime. Much needed solace and a heartening testament to the profound
resilience of the Cambodian people is found everywhere in the now
thriving community of modern Phnom Penh.