At home in Phnom Penh

Next country: Cambodia.  First stop: Phnom Penh, where the very gracious Kara and Damien hosted us in their apartment.  For the first time in months, we experienced home cooking and just lounging in a living room with wine.  It was spectacular.

We visited several historical sights to learn more about Cambodia's recent history and the Khmer Rouge revolution.  The "Killing Fields", located a few kilometers from the city center, were in particular a very sobering lesson on the massacres that occurred during the Khmer Rouge. In these death camps, hundreds of thousands of Cambodians were killed by a revolutionary army, who imagined a brand new, agrarian  society, to which anyone with education or connection to urban centers was seen as a threat. In the name of this twisted, radical vision of Marxism, the Khmer Rouge moved populations out of cities into labor camps in the countryside. Many died of overwork and starvation in these camps, while simultaneously the regime executed all of the country's intelligentsia, its teachers, and anyone wearing glasses (sadly, this is not a joke).  The Killing Fields educates about the latter, the systematic killings committed by the army.

It's rainy season in Cambodia and even its capital is not immune from flash flooding.  On our way back from the Killing Fields, after a heavy downpour that lasted an hour or so, we waded home through knee-deep water.

This is us in the midst of a serious political discussion, of which we had many.

But we took a break from serious discussion.

The theme of this picture is: "Bidet"

2 for 1 drinks => dancing in the streets

We passed through PP again while Kara and Damien were on vacation, so we went on a hot date:

Hot refers to the Indian food. Also, to us. 

Alina and Jeremy,
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