Cambodia

It was a hard goodbye from Bangkok but at the same time it was good to get out of that urban roller coaster for a while... so after an hour and a half we finally landed in Siem Reap, Cambodia.
The country is so flat, there are really few hills scattered around the whole country but there is a huge river though.
We got to know the little town a bit and get comfortable in our hotel preparing for the next day's big thing, visiting Angkor Wat, the famous World Heritage Site Khmer style temple complex.
Indeed it is a wonder of mankind arquitechture since it was all carved in stone and it was a lot of carving done because after Angor Wat, which is around a couple of square km's big we went to Angkor Tom which is another complex of temples which covers an area around 3 times the size of that of Angkor Wat.
It really is a treasure of the human artistic and arquitechtural engineering.
Too many tourists though, it would probably had a more "mystical" vibe to the place if there weren't so many tourists.
And that's where I get to the point about the socio-economic situation of the country.
After the Khmer Rouge, the revolution that spilled a lot of blood in Cambodia in the 70's the place was left in ruins and all the educated people, journalists, doctors, writers, historians and so on were all tortured and killed leaving the country with majorly the poor and uneducated ones to clean up the mess... so sad.
I payed a respectful visit to the Killing Fields, which were exactly what the name says, extermination camps with multiple shallow graves where tens of thousands were executed mercilessly and also to the Genocide Memorial which was a school used by the regime as a centre of torture and execution of those who posed a threat to it in anyway.... really a bad vibe there...
The country is indeed very poor and in a lot of need of investment, training and education of its people but the good thing in all of this is that even after all the tragedy they have been through they all have smiles in their faces and are happy to help you with any information to get you where you want to go.
A lotta love Cambodia!!!