I've been in Pnom Penh for 5 days now. Been to the almost obligatory places...Tuol Sleng Execution Centre & Choung Ek Killing Fields. The former is tough because it looks like almost any other secondary school you would find in Pnom Penh. It's an ordinary place.
The seond is tough because they didn't spare anyone...the bones of children, the krama still in the pits. I thought it would be a great place for meditation. It's very quiet.
Pnom Penh itself is an odd place. Like many in the 3rd World there is a mixture of the super rich and the super poor. So beggars beside BMW's. Some of the beggars are very hard to deal with. One had a facial deformity that started above his right eye and hung down his face....nearly lost lunch over that one.
The Khmer are a beautiful people. There is such life here. I think I will find it very hard to return home. So many things here just cut to the heart of life.
It is the perfect place for me to close one chapter of this life and to begin another on my return.Many of you I will keep as friends. It has more to do with people I knew during my first marriage. More to do with exploring things mentioned in my other blog. I'm also tired and there is kack in my lungs.
Pnom Penh can be cheap. Street food is very good and cheap. The fruits are wonderful. The local donut which must use sticky rice flour is delicious...and at 25 cents a pop, is a steal.
Tickets to Saigon by bus $10 each. Ariel is free.
Vietnamese visas $45 each...we were expecting $30 and Ariel possibly free. So this weeks budget is blown.
Will go. Need coffee.
Thoughts on health, diet, life as an autistic and general change. Some crossover into Tantra.
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