Amidst the beauty of Cambodia lies a great deal of pain. Traveling through Phnom Penh brought me face to face with the past.
The lovely view of some fields in Scarborough. I hope you like this shot.
Salinas, California is the land of strawberries, lettuce, Steinbeck⦠and giant cutout figures of fieldworkers.
It started with roadside murals depicting baseball games, traffic accidents, and monstrous artichokes, but over the last ten years, artist John Cerney has accented the landscape of the Salinas Valley with his cutout portraits of farmers and fieldworkers. The figures are three times human size, and thus, easily visible from the comfort of your vehicle.
It's tough to view the monument of skulls at the Killing Fields in Cambodia, but it's a necessary stop in order to understand the torid history.
The S21 Museum past prisoners.
Sign at one the mass graves north of Phnom Pehn, the capital of Cambodia
A couple of tears later.
Another sign at one the mass graves north of Phnom Pehn, the capital of Cambodia
Another fysical proof of the gruesome regime of Pol Pot and the red khmer.
The fractures in the sculls are still visable