Phnom Penh
(For whatever reason, this computer won't let me use the title box)

Arrived in Phnon Penh around 6:00pm two nights ago to the worst guesthouse yet. A long corridor that looked straight out of a gang movie, a small room with two beds that had two dilapidated foam mattresses, and a bathroom that was a corrugated plastic wall around a tile floor with a drain. All for $10.00 a night.

Kelly and I quickly set off on the hunt for somewhere cleaner and much less expensive. After looking at a few places for $4.00 a night and in much better condition than the first, we dropped our bags and went out for dinner/searching for other places for the next 2 nights. The place that we had chosen wasn't so bad (it could have been bearable for longer) but the cold-water-only shower and dirty (dirty) mosquito netting combined with the excessive amount of mosquito bites I got during dinner, the giant heat rash on my back from the long (6 or 7 hour) bus ride during the day and the fact that I haven't stopped sweating for 3 weeks, I was at my breaking point. The next day (yesterday), Kelly and I moved on up in the world and are now paying $15.00 for an air conditioned room, which has a shower that is the same size as the bathrooms in the other places (not to mention that it's enclosed and not just a shower head over the bathroom floor) AND the best part - there's cable TV with OPRAH!

Today was spent seeing the Killing Fields of Choeung Ek and the Tuol Sleng Museum, a former high school turned into a prison (detention and torture center) by Pol Pot's security forces. It was a pretty intense day, to say the least.