Choeung Ek Travel Guide
Choeung Ek, the site of a former orchard about 17km south of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, is the best-known of the sites known as The Killing Fields, where the Khmer Rouge regime executed about 17,000 people between 1975 and 1979. Mass graves containing more than 8,000 bodies were discovered at Choeung Ek after the fall of the Khmer Rouge regime. It was a very disturbing place that shows the horror and yet commemorated those killed.
Today, Choeung Ek is a memorial, marked by a Buddhist stupa. The stupa has plexiglass sides and is filled with more than 5,000 human skulls. Some of the lower levels are opened during the day so that the visitor can see the skulls directly. Many have been shattered by gunshots to the head or smashed in with implements such as hoes.
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Krong Koh Kong Travel Guide
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Kep Travel Guide
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Kampong Cham Travel Guide
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The province is subdivided into 16 districts.
0301 Batheay
0302 Chamkar Leu
0303 Cheung Prey
0304 Dambae
0305 Kampong Cham
0306 Kampong Siem
0307 Kang Meas
0308 Kaoh Soutin
0309 Krouch Chhmar
0310 Memot
0311 Ou Reang Ov
0312 Ponhea Kraek
0313 Prey Chhor
0314 Srei Santhor
0315 Stueng Trang
0316 Tboung Khmum
Surin
Surin's heritage is linked to elephants, silk and the ruins of a Khmer empire. Suay, a tribe of elephant catchers, were domiciled in the forested mountains of this province bordering on Cambodia. Surin is 457 kilometers far from Bangkok by car and 420 kilometers by train, and is 194 kilometers far from Nakhon Ratchasima by car and 170 kilometers by train.
Surin covers a total area of 8,124 square kilometers and is divided into 13 Amphoes (districts), 3 king Amphoes (Sub districts). The province is separated from neighboring Cambodia by the Banthat Mountains. During the 1970s, the period of Khmer Rouge
