We went to the Teul Sleng Prison on the 25th of May which was the day before my Sisters left. This prison is where Pol Pot and his cronies would put innocent people because they had too much education, wore glasses, or any number of things. They would persecute them with words and also physically and hurt the people in cruel ways. If they didn't die there, they would send them to the Killing Fields. This was a very wicked regime. I took a picture of the "rules" and the narrow brick rooms.
I took a picture looking out from the barbed wire over the housing units. It would have been awful to know that out on the street were people walking around while you were stuck in a death sentence in the prison. Most died, however the man my sister Jill, is sitting with was one of the few survivors. He wrote a book about it and that's how he feeds his family. We also can see different kinds of meat and various grades of rice.
We pose in the Royal Palace gardens. The Royal palace I believe is the one in the blurry picture and the gold building is a wat, a place of worship.
Also they have a museum on the grounds of the Royal Palace. Here we can see the different colors on the former national dress. Each color represents a different day of the week. I love the picture of these very young monks in front of the replica of the Angkor Wat.
The tree here is believed to have some sort of Healing powers. They will put incense and pray to the statue.
Riding all snuggy in the tuk tuk coming back from the Royal Palace. Then on to packing. They got packed and back home safely! We had a jam-packed week that Jill and Camille were here, but we managed to have some quality tiime
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