Here is a brief chronology of where we have been so far:

            Airport (about which you know too much already)

            Downtown Phnom Penh, on the west bank of Tonle Sap (Sap Rive)

            National Museum

            Royal Palace

            S-21. (high school converted to Khmer Rouge prison/torture facility, converted to a museum, Cambodia’s Yad Vashem)

            The killing fields. 

            Central Market

            Russian Market

            Wat Phnom

            Orphanage outside Phnom Penh

6 hour bus ride to Siem Reap, during which the video monitor up front played another American movie about the Vietnam war. The pilot is shot down, captured, escapes, survives, is rescued.  Uncomfortable.

Four temples in the temple complex.

River of linga,

Night market

Add in two of the heaviest, warmest thunder storms the kids have ever seen and you have a truly exotic adventure. That’s it for the who where and when.  More info in a moment.  

Macaque monkeys (not to be confused with Macaca)

Connor at Angkor Wat

 

Family stroll 

Griffin leads the way to the foot of the falls

Heaven is a cool pool on a hot day.  

           The kids doing their best to pay attention to which century, which king, where rock came from. . . 

Another local goddess.  Apparently the sculptor was in a really good mood that day.