Mice 1, Suzy and Alana 0

Worst Hostel Ever. Don't ever stay at the Green Lake Hostel!! Even though Angelina Jolie supposedly stays there when she's adopting Cambodian orphans. Yeah right. Our room ended up having some guests we weren't expecting...mice! The little critters in the walls of this crap-tastic place squeaked all night long and were running around the floor every once in a while, needless to say we freaked out a bit and tried to get a new room around 1:30 am. No luck, all booked up for the night. It was either sleep in the rodent infested room or risk getting mugged looking for a new hostel to stay in. So instead of a new room the guy at the front desk gives us a massive can of mosquito repellent...to make the mice go away? Well, we gave it a shot and sprayed a nearly lethal dose of the stuff in the room. It did not work, weird. Being the brave adults we are, we pulled our beds together in the middle of the room, kept the lights on and passed out from the fumes.

After running out that place as soon as dawn broke we found a new, rodent-less place to stay and were able to start our day of adventures much happier. We tuk-tuked it out to the killing fields where thousands of Cambodians were murdered during Pol Pot's regime. Not a very large place, but really sad to see. After that we went to one of the prisons that was used as well. Really unbelievable this all happened in the mid 70's and is still to this day somewhat largely ignored on the world stage even though roughly 2 million innocent people were killed. We then headed down to the river and to what seems to be a newer, nicer area of the city.This is a pretty interesting place with the mix of old, crumbling buildinds and actually quite a few new buildings and construction happening too. Also swung by the Royal Palace, I think they used the same architect as the Thai's did to build their palace as they looked and were set up very similarily.

Heading to Siam Reap early in the am! 6 hour bus ride up north. Should be a great time!!