Phnom Penh Trip Overview
Feed your soul with the best highlights of the Cambodian captial city Phnom Penh and experience the city’s senses of past and present.
• 5000 silver floor tiles at the Silver Pagoda, in the Royal Palace
• Step back in time at the National Museum, home to the world’s finest collection of Angkorian sculpture
• Discover a dark side at Toul Sleng Museum, a reminder of the brutality and pain of Cambodia’s past
• Boat trip to enjoy the beauty of Mekong river
Additional Info
Duration: 3 days
Starts: Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Trip Category: Day Trips & Excursions >> Day Trips
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What to Expect When Visiting Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Cambodia
Feed your soul with the best highlights of the Cambodian captial city Phnom Penh and experience the city’s senses of past and present.
• 5000 silver floor tiles at the Silver Pagoda, in the Royal Palace
• Step back in time at the National Museum, home to the world’s finest collection of Angkorian sculpture
• Discover a dark side at Toul Sleng Museum, a reminder of the brutality and pain of Cambodia’s past
• Boat trip to enjoy the beauty of Mekong river
Day 1: Phnom Penh Arrival – City Tour (L/D)
Welcome to Phnom Penh – the city retains its traditional Khmer and colonial styles with French villas and large tree-line sidewalk. Pick up and transfer to have lunch and check in hotel. After the short rest you will visit the impressive colorful Khmer-style royal palace complex build in 1866 by the Predecessors of King Norodom. Nearby is Silver pagoda (the emerald Buddha temple), where contain plenty of Buddha Statues decorated and made by gold, diamond, gemstone and silver. We will stop at Independence monument and explore the National museum; a beautiful Khmer architecture building contains more than 5000 art antiques made by bronze, wood, gold, silver, copper, sandstone and others. We pass through the river-front park where 4 rivers met at a junction include mystical Mekong. Walk up to sacred hill Phnom Daun Penh – also the name of a pagoda and name of the capital nowadays. Last visit Central Market, a large market constructed in 1937 in the shape of a dome with four arms branching out into vast hallways with countless stalls of goods. Initial design and layouts are from French architect Louis Chauchon. Dinner and enjoy the night time and overnight in Phnom Penh!
Day 2: Phnom Penh – City Tour (B/L/D)
Breakfast at hotel, in the morning we visit Choeung Ek museum, where between 1975 and 1978 about 17,000 men, women, children and infants detained and tortured at S-21 were transported for the extermination. We continue to Tuol Sleng prison now is Genocide Museum, the most secret part of the Khmer Rouge regime. It’s also called S-21 (abbreviated for Security Office 21), a Khmer Rouge’s premier security camp, specifically designed for the interrogation and extermination of anti-Angkor elements. Leave the relics of the bad history of Cambodia we will have lunch before going shopping around Russian market, enjoy the bustling daily activities of the locals. Last we will take a cruise to see the sunset on the Mekong and Tonle Sap River in the “Four Arms” section where the Mekong meets the Tonle Sap River before splitting into two branches. Dinner and enjoy the night time and overnight in Phnom Penh!
Day 3: Phnom Penh – Departure (B)
Morning after breakfast, transfer to airport for flight to airport for flight departure.
