Im still in Phnom Penh, we visited the S-21 detention centre museum and the killing fields just outside the city today. Very, very harrowing stuff, it’s so hard to try and understand how people can do that to their own people. And the effects of the Pol Pot regime are still very apparent in the stories of the people we meet in everyday life. Our motorbike rider today lost his brother and grandmother under the regime.

I sent some things home today so I have more space to buy more lovely things! We went to the Russian market yesterday and I bought a skirt, trousers, three tops and 6 CD’s for less than 20 pounds! Got a little bit burnt today as I forgot my suncream but it’s not too bad. I feel all scabby and I think we have bed bugs as I got eaten alive last night and my legs are covered in bites, despite having the mosquito net up. I have one on my toe that has gone all white and purple. I got a picture of a monkey climbing across some electricity cables right in the middle of the city … hilarious. It’s absolutely boiling here. Haven’t slept a lot the last couple of nights due to bites and the intolerable heat.

Tomorrow we are leaving for the coast, our last stop in Cambodia before Thailand. Bus leaves at 7.30am tomorrow. Yippee! Still have to pack as well.