Rooms and rooms full of photos of all the victims captured, tortured and killed in a high school-turned prison during the Khmer Rouge2. Phnom Penh: Large, large and large. Lots of people of all color and nationality...both working their and as tourists. It was nice to see less of a divide between locals and expats. Phnom Penh has a middle class along with extensive history. We did some "sight-seeing" of the plight of the Khmer Rouge and had amazing pomegranite martinis at a shi-shi bar with red silk pillows that made you want to have a pillow fight.
We also hit up the Russian Market as we were out of clean clothes and had to experience the cramped sea of stalls with brandname clothes, such as Daisy Fuentes, Gap, and Abercrombie and Fitch. The garment factories are all outside of Phnom Penh so you pay what it actually took to make...and most of them are stollen by workers to make a few extra bucks in the market, as weekly incomes average about $5.
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