VISITS & E XC H A NG ES
Cambodia
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Travel is an enriching experience that can teach valuable life lessons, while also helping you to discover and understand more about the world and yourself. In order to understand the Cambodia of today, one needs to recognise its difficult history, and this was no more evident than on our first day when we visited Phnom Penh’s S21 Prison and Killing Fields, bringing us face to face with the country’s bitter past.
Phnom Penh and today serves as a monument to all those who died, and to those who survived.
From 1975 to 1979 a communist leader, Pol Pot, lead a brutal regime called the Khmer Rouge, killing millions of innocent Cambodian people. Killing Fields spread across the country of Cambodia, the largest of them being Choeung Ek, which sits on the outskirts of
Choeung Ek was not the easiest place to visit, but it was an opportunity to learn for ourselves on the exact grounds that all of the horrible actions took place.
The Peterite 2018–2019
“Our trip to Cambodia will be remembered for the unforgettable views, the people and the adventures we shared together.”
