We took the afternoon bus from Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam to Phnom Penh, Cambodia after our Cu Chi Tunnels day tour. There are relatively many bus stations from Vietnam to Cambodia, but we chose the liner that offers the earliest trip.
We were supposed to buy our tickets online, but we made a better choice to look for bus liners in Ho Chi Minh because we didn’t really know our schedule.
The ride was about five hours and 30 minutes long, and we paid 529 Baht each. We alighted at Phuong Heng’s terminal, and luck was on our favor, there was a tuktuk driver waiting outside.
Of course, with my short term memory, I already forgot his name, but he offered to bring us to our hotel after we look for money changers, and he gave us a discount for our Pnom Penh tour the next day. Without any itinerary at hand, we gave in. It was again a great choice. He was nice and he really delivered a quality service.
IN PHNOM PENH ~
Where to stay in Pnom Penh: City Centre Hotel# | Address: #77/79, Street 130, Daun Penh, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
We only paid Php 1,305 (US$24.84) for a standard double room with free breakfast. 
The hotel is near tourist attractions and is at the city so I recommend the hotel.
PNOM PENH DAY TOUR
The tuktuk driver fetched us at our hotel at eight in the morning and our first itinerary was the Choeung Ek Genocidal Center — the site of a former orchard and mass grave of the Khmer Rouge regime victims who were killed between 1975 and 1979. It was heartbreaking.
Here are the heart-rending photos inside the Geonicidal Center. The Killing Fields have the vibe of distress that I pray no one would ever experience.
The entrance fee is US$6 dollars for foreigners and you can rent audio records which you can play and pause in every station.
Mass graves containing 8,895 bodies were discovered at Choeung Ek after the fall of the Khmer Rouge regime. Many of the dead were former political prisoners who were kept by the Khmer Rouge in their Tuol Sleng detention center and in other Cambodian detention centers.
People were actually buried in that lake. 
Next stop was the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum. It was heart-wrenching just the same.
In there are the actual prisons where they locked up the victims.
Try eating Bánh mì in Pnom Penh. It is unbelievably delicious.
Second to our last stop was the Royal Palace. It was late and I was wearing a rather inconvenient dress, so we decided not to enter the premises. We found a perfect spot to take photos instead: the palace gates.
Our last stop was the Moha Montrei Pagoda, but I can’t find photos so it might have been saved somehwere in my GoPro gallery that I am too lazy to search.
Not being able to stand the dread anymore, we decided to head back to the hotel to fetch our bags. We took the night sleepers’ bus to Siem Reap for 488 Baht each. The trip was roughly five hours.
Even this time, I cannot believe the transport system of Cambodia. Imagine us two sleeping in a section in the sleeper’s bus that could only fit one? *roles eyes*
Next on the blog is temple run in Siem Reap.
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