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Cambodia is the most amazing country I've ever visited. Such a devastated people and place i have never before seen anything like. It broke my heart to see it, yet at the same time, it was so wonderful to see such a broken people bounce back with such open warmth, friendliness and life. The worst of attrocities were commited in the rural provences like Battambang where the people were forced to work like animals in the khmer rouge rice paddies.

Two local guys brought us out into the countryside from Battambang on the their motorbikes so we could see for ourselves what the country is like now. We saw killing fields near the Monastary. In the caves above the fields, we saw the pagodas which were filled with blood and bones. But above all this, I remember some of the most open and forthcoming people i have met in all my life. As we went by the villages, the kids would flock onto the road to shout hellos. Literally hundreds of people offering greetings or sometimes only just a simple smile. It was amazingly touching.