Rising from the ashes - Kampuchea?
Even i am a resident of Cambodia-or Kampuchea, I think I am not yet good enough at guiding you to country for traveling. But from the experience you might want to learn something from them. Here is what Maria told about Kampuchea, Rising from the askes, as she had experience visiting to the country.
Five years earlier I managed to do all that but I deliberately avoided going to the Genocide Museum and declined a trip to the killing fields of Cambodia – or Kampuchea, as the locals know it.
This time I brace myself for the experience and follow our local guide into a hell of blood-splattered ceilings and torture chambers, lest we forget.
The harrowing tales hanging over these cement blocks, formerly a secondary school, would haunt me for days.
The thousands of eyes staring from the photos of people about to be murdered, would follow me doggedly.
More about the reign of Pol Pot, the killing fields, photo is here.
I found that people in most countries tend to equate Cambodia with Pol Pot and killing fields and that it is therefore a good idea not to visit Killing Fields first. The murderous legacy is still very present in Cambodia yet that is not what Cambodia is all about.
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