Today we went to the killing fields and the toulsleng museum, which is the largest prison and torture center.  It was awful what was done here.  This country was a very developed country and it was reduced basically to the stone age, there is nothing here.  No sewage system, no garbage system, no infrastructure at all, no education.  It's terrible.  And even worse, America is responsible for a huge amount of death here.  We bombed this country with the effect of 5 Hiroshima's.  We killed millions before the Khmer Rouge even came to power and they were hailed for defeating us and then immediately evacuated all cities on the pretense that the US was going to bomb them.  There is so much history here that I knew nothing about.  And then we went to the Royal Palace, which contains more treasure than I have ever seen in my life and it was just beautiful.  So to see the two extremes in one day was a little draining.  I have a lot of journaling to catch up on to record everything.

-Elizabeth Smit