… is a temple in Siem Reap Cambodia. It is very very big and very very old and very very beautiful.

We made the 5 a.m. tourist pilgrimage, breakfasted on delicious baguette omelet sandwiches and waited for the sun to rise. The dawn greeted us with a muddy overcast sky that smelled of rain and soon delivered just that.

Despite the puddles and shirt soaking humidity the place was definitely worth the visit. I especialy liked the giant trees growing out of the ancient stones. It made me feel a little like Indiana Jones.

Take a look?

Formerly the Chao Ponhea Yat High School now the site of the Tuol Sleng Genocide museum. The place was transformed into Security Prison by the Khmer Rouge regime in 1975 ab stayed that way until 1979 when the regime lost power.

As many as 17,000 prisoners are said to have been held there. The captives were repeatedly tortured into giving up the names of their friends and family to the regime who were in turn tortured and killed.

I left India for a short vacation in South East Asia with a couple of friends. I started in Bangkok headed to Phnom Penh and am now in Siem Reap getting ready to go hit up Angkor Wat at sunrise.

Here are a few photographs I took at the Killing Fields outside of Phnom Penh.