Scratch the surface of dynamic Phnom Penh. The Cambodian capital reveals its turbulent history with visits to the stunning National Museum and Killing Fields. Discover the city’s timeless charm at the glittering Royal Palace and rub shoulders with the locals at the Russian Market.
Your day tour visiting Phnom Penh includes the Royal Palace complex. This palace dates from 1866 and was the last one built during the French colonial period. The same complex houses the Silver Pagoda, named for the over 5000 silver tiles that cover its floors. Its original name is Wat Prakeo, meaning Temple of the Emerald Buddha. In this temple you will view a collection of Buddhas in gold, silver, crystal, and bronze.
Continue to National Museum, built in 1917. Housed there are over 5000 statues, lingas and others artifacts arranged according to pre- Angkor and post –Angkor periods of Cambodia history.
After that, visit Wat Phnom is situated near the northern boundary of the city. The original temple was built in 1372 by a rich Khmer lady named “”Penh”” who found a collection of statues of the Buddha washed up on the river bank and decided to house them on a nearby hill (“”Phnom””). The site contains some good examples of Khmer architecture and statues. Wat Phnom is frequented by the locals as a place of worship and a favorite weekend picnic spot.
In the afternoon, visit Toul Sleng. In the years before 1975, Toul Sleng was a high school in Phnom Penh, but when the Khmer Rouge came to power it was converted into the notorious prison known as S-21. During the Khmer Rouge regime, around 20,000 people were kept in prison here, and tortured to confess their ‘anti-revolutionary’ behaviour. Some died under the torture and were buried in a shallow mass grave on the prison ground, but most prisoners were executed at the Killing Fields. Only 7inmates survived the Toul Sleng prison. If time permite, shopping at Russian Market. The best place in the city for wooden and stone carvings, old coins, jewellery, and Cambodian and Chinese silk clothes.
Continue to Choeung Ek (Killing Field) the site of a former orchard and mass grave of victims of the Khmer Rouge – killed between 1975 and 1979 – about 15 km south of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, is the best-known of the sites known as The Killing Fields, where the Khmer Rouge regime executed over one million people between 1975 and 1979. Mass graves containing 8,895 bodies were discovered at Choeung Ek after the fall of the Khmer Rouge regime. Many of the dead were former political prisoners who were kept by the Khmer Rouge in their Tuol Sleng detention center. Here, was the place where victims transported from Toul Sleng or S21 and other places in the country were detained. ”
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