Cycle rickshaws are widely used in Phnom Penh where they are known as "cyclos".
Lots of buildings dating from the French colonial period have lost their original splendor and are now in disrepair.
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The walls around the Silver Pagoda temple are covered with paintings of the Ramayana epic. The Ramayana is an ancient Sanskrit epic, one of the two great epics of India. The complete mural is 642 metres long.
In August 1975, four months after the Khmer Rouge won the civil war, the Chao Ponhea Yat High School was turned into a prison and interrogation center. The complex was renamed "Security Prison 21" (S-21).
From 1975 to 1979, an estimated 17,000 people were imprisoned at S-21. They were repeatedly tortured and coerced into naming family members and close associates, who were in turn arrested, tortured and killed. Only seven prisoners survived.
Choeung Ek, 17 km south of Phnom Penh, is the best-known of the sites known as The Killing Fields, where the Khmer Rouge regime executed the S-21 prison inmates. In four years, the Khmer Rouge regime killed approximately two million people, about one-third of the population.
Ratanakiri is among the least developed provinces of Cambodia. Its infrastructure and health indicators are extremely poor. Almost one in four children die before reaching the age of five. The others work in the large rubber plantations that dot the province.
Education levels in the Ratanakiri province are low; three quarters of the population is illiterate. That is no surprise when children are working in the fields most of the day.
The rain season in the northern province of Ratanakiri turns any normal ride into a wild and muddy adventure. It took us an incredible 6 hour to cover the 35 km that separate Voen Sai from Ban Lung.
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