COUNTRIES

Royal Palace, the official residence of king Sihamoni

Silver Pagoda. The floor is lain with five tons of gleaming silver

Inside Silver Pagoda, there is a life-sized, solid-gold Buddha weighing 90kg with 2086 diamonds

Morning in central Phnom Penh

Lonely vendor near the Cambodia-Vietnam Friendship Monument

In the evening, Cambodians come here to practice aerobics in groups led by instructors

Tonle Sap river in the evening

Tuol Sleng Museum, a former High School turned to Security Prison in 1975

It was the largest center of detention and torture during the Khmer Rouge regime

One of many former classrooms

From 1975 to 1979, an estimated 17,000 people were imprisoned at Tuol Sleng

Almost all of the prisoners were later executed at the Killing Fields of Choeung Ek

Over 8000 skulls inside a white stupa serving as a memorial to 17,000 people killed in Choeung Ek

Traditional revolutionary uniform

This is Phnom Penh. What more can I say?

Motorcycle drivers taking a break

We saw a lot of luxury cars in Phnom Penh. The gap between the rich and the poor is huge

Elephant walking in central Phnom Penh

He didn't clean up after his pet

Vendors selling Cambodian specialties

Have a closer look - it's crickets, tarantulas, frogs

I ate them all - just to try and see if it's any good. Well, it's not

Next day we took a bus straight to Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam

Vendors swarm around buses waiting for ferry across the Mekong River