The genocide tour takes a mere morning, although it feels like much longer, and by lunch time we were once again sitting in one of the pleasant cafes on the sunny and slightly humid shores of the Mekong drinking iced coffee and lunching on french-style baguettes. Conversation naturally gravitated to the experiences of the morning as if everyone felt a need to rationalise and somehow file this experience away under something that to us made some sense. A fruitless task if ever there was one and inevitably such experiences end up in the big file entitled 'don't quite know what to think - deal with later'. Nevertheless, the normality of our own lives reasserted itself and it was pleasant to while away the rest of the afternoon appreciating the more appealing andfamiliar side of Phnom Penn, a few drinks, some nice food and perhaps a massage or two.

If you feel like learning more about the recent history of Cambodia, however, there are a couple of bars on the river front that show documentary films about subject such as the rise of the Khmer rouge, the life of Pol Pot and the programme of land-mine clearance which remains a huge current concern in Cambodia. I have heard various figures bandied around and it is not clear which one is correct, but
there are apparently still 10's of injuries and deaths a month as a result of land-mines. Certainly there are a higher proportion of maimed or incomplete people on the streets of Phnom Penn than anywhere else I have visited on this trip. Sobering thoughts once again.