26 Mar 2025 - Phnom Penh
After Tai Chi and breakfast, we went ashore at 8:30: the usual climb up the bank and then along a track parallel to it to encounter nine Tricycles, each pedaled by a man with seating just for one. We proceeded in these to the Kings Palace: this was surrounded by a series of impressive temples one of them a Silver Temple. We spent some time here before proceeding. in the cyclo for a tour of the town weaving in and out of the heavy traffic, quite a lot.
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After the Royal Palace, it was back in the cyclos and a tour of more of the city
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Another nine passengers had joined the ship while we were out so now we have a compliment of 18. We proceeded out again at 2 pm in a coach that took us 45 minutes to reach a Killing Field Cemetery which we walked round.
The killing fields memorial had photos of the camps between 1975 and 1979 when the atrocities had taken place. Also hundreds of photographs of each person admitted. Sam showed us round these although I think it was quite painful for him as he had been a child slave at the age of six for the four years and had lost an elder sister, grandparents and uncles during this time.
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Once back in the ship, we sat up on deck and then had cocktails and tapas and were entertained by a troop of Cambodian dancers, puppeteers et cetera, thoroughly enjoyable but the deck was somewhat windy.
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We chatted to one of the new couples Christopher and Priscilla . After dinner, we watched the second part of “The Killing Fields”