For the afternoon I (upon reccomendation of a girl in my hostel) went to the Red Dot Museum. There is only 2 of these in the world, the other being in Germany, so I was expecting a bit of a treat and a unique experience. Certainly outside the traffic building (named this because it used to be the base of traffic police in Singapore) it was brightly painted in a red hue and attention seeking.
An award winning chair
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On arrival at the Singapore Art Museum (SAM) I noticed the large bronze statue of a man with 2 children above the entrance (Used to be a school and the man is, certainly hard to miss. I was fortunate enough to time my arrival (2pm) with the start of a free tour presented by Read the rest! \(^u^)/ →
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Cambodian flag hanging at half-mast in the Killing Fields
During the Khmer Rouge rule of the country from 1975 to 1979, immediately after the end of the Vietnam war, over 200,000 people were executed and buried in the killing fields just outside Phnom Penh, the captial of Cambodia. The total deaths of the regime is estimated to be Read the rest! \(^u^)/ →
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The statues guarding the entrance over the moat to Angkor Wat
Angkor Wat is the world renowned wat (temple) in Angkor World heritage site and was built in the early 12th Century. Read the rest! \(^u^)/ →
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Laos map with known bombing data
Laos is the most bombed country in the world, mostly due to the USA heavy attacks during the Vietnam war when the Vietnamese moved into Laos in an attempt to hide.
The map to the left shows (as a red dot) every bomb attack on Laos.
One of the weapons of choice was the cluster bomb, which detonates a large bomb mid air and sprays a lot of small bombs (also known as bombies or bomlets) on the ground below causing massive devastation. Read the rest! \(^u^)/ →
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