Siem Reap to Phnom Penh

At last, a proper bus, the wonderful "Giant Ibis" line that we had read about in the guides. Even had wi-fi!
So, a painless journey to the capital and our hotel, the converted former USA embassy, an attractive colonial style building.

The city is known for its French influenced bakeries (and hence our best breakfasts on the trip to date) and has some relatively affluent little boutiques. 

The Throne Hall

Four faced tower

Tiny section of 642m Ramayana mural in courtyard

We did the city sights, i.e. the Royal Palace and Museum which were not terribly exciting (frustratingly quite a lot was shut for 'renovation'), then there was nothing for it but the Genocide Museum and the Killing Fields (Choeung Ek).
Apart from the obvious horribleness of the history what stuck in our mind was the extent to which foreign powers had facilitated the whole mess and that the UK and USA had actually continued to recognise the Pol Pot regime after it had been toppled by the Vietnamese. It is hard to conceive that about 20% of the total Cambodian population died under the Khmer Rouge as recently as the 1970's. 

There is an excellent and evocative audio guide at the Killing Fields and it is interesting that the UK is the country with the highest number of visitors notwithstanding that we are definitely a minority in terms of the nationalities that we see in Cambodia in general.

The gallows at B block at S21 museum, a former high school