Tour - 3DAY THE ROYAL CITY OF CAMBODIA

3DAY THE ROYAL CITY OF CAMBODIA

PHNOM PENH sprawls west from the Mekong and Tonle Sap rivers.

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DAY 01: ARRIVE – PHNOM PENH
Arrival at Phnom Penh by Air Asia, meets with your tour guide, and transfer to check-in hotel. We visit the Royal Palace situated on the site of the former citadel, and next stop will be Silver Pagoda, home to a glittering array of Buddhist statuary. Then we visit the National Museum, the world’s leading museum of Khmer sculpture. We continue visiting Wat Phnom, standing atop the artificial hill built in the 15th century stands a stupa containing the ashes of a king from the same period. Overnight at hotel.

DAY 02: PHNOM PENH
After breakfast, we visit the killing field of Cheung Ek – a soccer-field-sized area surrounded by farmland, the killing fields contain mass graves, slightly sunken, for perhaps 20,000 Cambodians, many of whom were tortured before being killed. A memorial building stands in the centre of the killing fields, many of the skulls inside were pulled from the mass graves, we visit the Toul Sleng, known as the Museum of Genocide Crimes. In 1975 Toul Svay Prey High school was taken over by Pol Pot’s security forces and turned into a prison known as Security Prison 21 (S-21). It was used by the Khmer Rouge as detention and torture centre in the later 1970. Today the building houses exhibits, paintings and photographs of many of the victims. Visitors can see the crude cells built in the classrooms and the torture devices used to extract confessions. In the afternoon, we proceed to visit the Independent Monument, visit NAGA world casino or visit Night Market (if time permitted) and drive along the river for a view of the city and its local lifestyle. O/N at hotel.