Translation of postulate in German

We decided to fly directly to Hanoi and booked a flight for the same day. Before we left we still had some time to visit the War Remnants Museum. One could see the former headquarters of the South.
The first thing he wanted to show us was a war memorial for Cambodia's civil war. The war has ended only few years earlier and was still very present in the mind of the entire population.
We stood there in the middle of the night in the middle of nowhere not exactly knowing what to do next and where we arrived. We had to look for a place to sleep. The village did not have any paved streets.