Suddenly feel like blogging about my Cambodia trip~ :D

Went for a service trip with my friends from my CCA

We visited Siep Reap and Phnom Penh

Cambodia used to be one of the rich countries

In the past century, Cambodia has been through a civil war that has crippled the country and made it into a third world country

You can do your own research haha

It's a loooong story~

This is the stupa that contains the skulls of those who perished

It is located at the killing fields where the Khmer Rouge tricked the civilians there, tortured them and killed them

They killed them brutally, with blunt objects and sharp edges of the trees

The way they kill children is by hitting the babies on the trees

Can you imagine babies being thrown on the trees?

They are just small cute little innocent human beings, just came to earth for just a short period of time and they had to be killed in this manner

There are also large, deep holes to bury those who were murdered

There is this magic tree, where they tied loudspeakers to it and played loud music so that people would not hear the moans of the victims and discover their crimes

Evil.





This is the S11 prison where they held captives.

It was formerly an old abandoned school, thus the school building exterior.


The people set up sharp wired fences to prevent the prisoners from escaping.



This is the interior of the classrooms.

Each classrooms has about 8 small cubicles.

The cubicles are separated by bricks or wooden boards.

The prisoners arre not allowed to make any noise, cry or anything.

The whole thing is covered up and they are faced with nothing but themselves, the guards, fear and solidity.

On top of that, they were being tortured as well.

For the women, some of the methods that they were tortured was having their nipples clamped and pulled, and men had their fingernails pulled out and such.

There were even worse torturing methods and it was really unimaginable.

They displayed the pictures and some remains of the victims in various buildings, making it extra creepy.

This is one of the remaining survivor and he wrote a book about what he has experienced.

We bought the book as he relied on it for living.

He is around 80+ i think.

There's only about 2-3 remaining survivor of the S11 prison.

In Cambodia, you will rarely see elderly around as they were all part of the war period.

If you do see some elderly, they are the survivors of the war!



Of course, the famous wonder of the world, Ang Kor Wat was not to be missed!

The place is huge!!

You can walk until you die, haha.

We travelled around in our coach and visited only about 3-4 temples.

The famous steep steps was out of bound and they build a wooden steps for us to get to the top.

It was a few stories high!

When you look down from above, the people below are like ants

And we've got an awesome tour guide who is a fan of Chris Brown hahaha

Whenever he takes a photo for us, he makes sure that the picture is nice :D

We've also developed some interesting jokes for ourselves there haha :D

This is a temple with twin trees and as you can see in the picture, the roots is all over the temple





They is the reason why we went to Cambodia!

They are my most adorable students!! :D

I'm their facilitator and i love them! :D

They know how to speak a little Thai too!! :D

We went to do road works for them

And we carved our names there :D

BBLC stands for Boys' brigade learning centre and i represented Ngee Ann Boys' Brigade Primers to go over for service learning trip!

BBLC is like a free tuition centre for them to improve their English!

My little kiddos! :D

Totally enjoyed this Cambodia trips

Lots of memories, fun, laughters, crazy moments, sad moments, fun moments, good friendship and an eye opener!!

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