Phnom Penh

In 1975, Tuol Svay Prey High School was taken over by Pol Pot's security forces and turned into a prison (S-21). Over 17,000 people held here were taken to the extermination camp at Choeung Ek to be executed; detainees who died during torture were buried in mass graves in the prison grounds.

Each prisoner who passed through S-21 was photographed, sometimes before and after being tortured. Now it is a museum displaying the horrors of the Khmer Touge genocide. This map of Cambodia is made of skulls of the victims.

I immediately fell in love with the city with its broad boulevards and an amazing riverfront where you can see the Royal Palace

	At night we drove through town on scooters. And we thought we were cool with three on one scooter. The Cambodians outdid us easily. We splashed out on a luxurious hotel where they had hot showers and satellite television. We could acclimatise a little before going back to Europe. It was good, it really was...