Matt and I had a smooth flight from Bangkok to Phnom Penh yesterday afternoon and a great dinner of traditional Khmer food at a great restaurant by the riverfront. Today hired a tuk-tuk for the day and headed out of town to a wildlife rescue center that is kind of like a zoo, except it's nothing like anything you've ever seen. There weren't many visitors and we had free reign to walk right up to the animal habitats, a bit too close for comfort at a few of them (primarily the tigers, whom Matt seemed to think could just maul through the chain link fence at any moment, especially when the kind of half growled at me). My favorite were some monkeys, one of whom had a very tiny baby with her, who looked a bit like a little alien Golum baby. The monkeys were hilarious and amazing to watch. Matt got to feed an elephant as well, which was really funny when he ran out of food!
After the animals we went to S-21, the former Khmer Rouge prison (that was formerly a school) that was turned into a museum of the genocide. It was quite sobering, though well worth the stop.
Okay, pics just transferred, so here's a sneak peak:
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