Today I chose not to have a funny title, partly because I didn't feel very funny but mostly out of respect for what I'm going to talk about.

We started today by going to see the Wat Phnom.  The temple which the city is named after.   It's a large, white stoned building on the northern side of the city.  So after eating breakfast we walked in that direction.  Not going to lie, today was fucking hot.  Like by the time we got to the temple (only like 1-2km away) Jack and I were both drenched in sweat.  The architecture was pretty cool but there were several people inside worshiping so we thought it may be rude to linger. 

After some deliberation on where to go next we decided to Tuktuk to the mall we were at yesterday.  Mainly because it had cool drinks and air-conditioning.  It was about that time when the first big monkey wrench of the trip got thrown into our gears. Jack received an email saying that our flight from Siem-Reap to Bangkok had got cancelled.  That's a problem because according to the airline that is the only flight leaving for Thailand that day. 

I'm pretty chill when stuff like this happens.  Cambodia Airways has an office nearby so we could easily stop by later when they reopened after the city siesta.  Jack in the meantime had a bit of a harder time relaxing. He's a planner and if anything doesn't go the way he's set it up he gets upset.  

After a lunch in the mall we braved the now 44 degree heat to get to the airline office.    

Turns out the airline was super helpful and rescheduled us with a different airline on the same day free of charge.  Exactly what I anticipated happening.   I'm just of the opinion that you shouldn't sweat what you can't control,

Anyway onto what the title is talking about and why I didn't want to be funny.  Having sorted out our plane ordeal we decided to go to the genocide museum.  If you don't know anything about the Cambodian genocide or Pol Pot all you need to know is that he was a really really fucked up guy.  The genocide museum is actually established in an old high school which in turn was one of the major torturing facilities of the Khmer Rouge.  I've never been personally but I compare the experience to walking around Auschwitz.  During his tyrannical rule Pol Pot had more than 21,000 Cambodians sent to this Center to be tortured for information.  They said about ninety percent of the victims were innocent and the information used to arrest them was falsified.  Walking around this school, looking into classrooms that've been modified to torture chambers is probably one of the most twisted things I've ever seen. 

If your interested here's the wiki article : 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuol_Sleng_Genocide_Museum

Anyway I think you guys may be getting another morose blog tomorrow.  We're going to the killing fields, the mass graves of the Pol Pot genocide. 

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