Cambodge - Jour 29-32 Pnom Penh à Kep 2010

Cambodge - Jour 29-32 Pnom Penh à Kep 2010
I visited Tuol Sleng Prison. This is one of many prisons. These type of places were used to hurt people to get them
to confess to being a traitor, then kill theminterrogation centers used by the Kmer Rouge under Pol Pot, etc. I have never
seen something this disturbing in person.
People come up and look at my bicycle and ask me about it. When I am away from my bicycle, I return to find out that
people have changed my gears. I have had to take my bicycle to a repair shop to get my gears fixed 2 times in Phnom Penh already.
No one means harm. They are simply curious. Most bikes look very different than mine.

When I was bicycling toward Kep, Cambodia I stopped for a drink of water at a roadside stand in Takeo, Cambodia. A Cambodian
man came up to me and we started talking. Eventually, he asked if I wanted to come to his house and have some food and get
out of the sun for a while. I was mid-day. In Vancouver, British Columbia it is about 40 degrees celsius colder than in southeast Asia.
This increase in heat is very hard on me. I easily drink more than 7 liters of fluid per day. And I still feel somewhat dehydrated.
When one adds in the fact that I am cycling around Asia it is even more challenging for me. At his house (Samath) I took a shower
to cool off. A Shower at most Cambodian homes is accomplished by getting water from a cistern with a bowel and pouring it on oneself.
I felt so refreshed afterwards.
Then, I ate frog and mango in fish sauce. Very, very tasty. His family is very kind.
They were teaching me some Cambodian. I find Cambodians to be very giving people. I arrived 17 hours later at Kep from Phnom Penh. Wow!