Cambodia was fast and frenzied, as we unfortunately only had a week or so to see the main highlights. We spent two days in Phnom Penh, and while there visited the infamous S-21 Prison and the Killing Fields run by the Khmer Rouge, perpetrators of the mass genocide in Cambodia during the 1970s. Horrific and nausea-inducing. From Phnom Penh, we took an incredibly hot and miserable bus ride (past the worst traffic accident I've ever seen) to Siem Reap, site of Angkor Wat, the largest religious structure in the world. Superlatives are the only available forms of speech when trying to describe the experience of exploring Angkor Wat and its surrounding temples - it was nearly impossible to process the fact that these stupendous temples were built almost 1000 years ago. Additionally, Monika, Emily and I celebrated our April birthdays on a big night out, accompanied by three guys we had previously traveled with for a few weeks, and a bunch of their (random) friends. I actually got to see the sun rise behind Angkor Wat on my actual birthday, which I figured was a pretty good way to offset my quarter-life crisis.
A (proper) return trip is definitely in order.
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