Why choose this Phnom Penh tour ?
A professional English-speaking tour guide will pick you up from your hotel and drive you to the killing fields of Choeung Ek Genocide Center – 17km away south of Phnom Penh. The infamous killing fields have a bloody history. Once an orchard and a Chinese cemetery, the Khmer Rouge, led by Pol Pot, turned the place into what became known as the killing fields, where they executed around 20.000 victims.
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What makes Half-Day Tour of the Killing Field and S21 a unique experience ?
Is the site of a former orchard and mass grave of victims of the Khmer Rouge – killed between 1975 and 1979 – in Dangkao Section, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, about 17 kilometers (11 mi) south of the Phnom Penh city center. It 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 and in other Cambodian detention centers. Today, Choeung Ek is a memorial, marked by a Buddhist stupa. The stupa has acrylic glass sides and is filled with more than 9,000 human skulls. Some of the lower levels are opened during the day so that the skulls can be seen directly. Many have been shattered or smashed in. Tourists are encouraged by the Cambodian government to visit Choeung Ek.
The Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum or simply Tuol Sleng is a museum chronicling the Cambodian genocide. Located in Phnom Penh, the site is a former secondary school which was used as Security Prison 21 by the Khmer Rouge regime from 1975 until its fall in 1979. To accommodate the victims of purges that were important enough for the attention of the Khmer Rouge, a new detention center was planned in the building that was formerly known as the Tuol Svay Pray High School, named after a royal ancestor of King Norodom Sihanouk, the five buildings of the complex were converted in March or April 1976 into a prison and an interrogation center.
Tour Description & Additional Info:
- Wheelchair accessible
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Specialized infant seats are available
- Transportation options are wheelchair accessible
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
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- Half-Day Tour of the Killing Field and S21
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Half-Day Tour of the Killing Field and S21 Inclusions:
Included with Your Ticket
- A professional English speaking tour guide
- A professional driver with driving license.
- Water and snack
- A clean and safe transportation.
Not Included
- The killing field entrance fee tickets 3$/person.
- The Toul Sleng Genocide entrance fee ticket 5$/person.
- Tipping service and other personal expenses.
- Personal travel insurance
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Special Instructions:
- This Tour is Provided by The Killing Field and S21 Genocide Tour.
- Tour Timezone & Starts at Asia/Phnom_Penh.
- Mobile or paper ticket accepted.
- For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
- This Tour is Rated 5 Stars based on 10 valid reviews on VIATOR.
- Minimum 1 Travelers is required to book.
- Maximum 15 Travelers is accepted for booking.
1. Departure morning:
– 8:15 AM to 12:15 PM
2. Departure afternoon:
– 1:15 PM to 5:30 PM
3. Travelers need to provide us WhatsApp contact so that we can communicate faster.
4. We provide free pick up directly at the travelers’ hotel, hostel, apartment, etc., only in the city center, 2.7 kilometers from the radius of the meeting point.
5. Traveler do not have to exchange voucher at the meeting point one day before the tour start as all important information are in the online ticket. It means ” no need to redeem the ticket”
6. Travelers can send email or contact us via WhatsApp for any concerns. Our WhatsApp are +855 78 45 71 58 and +855 96 38 81 388
7. From Nov 25th to Nov 29th, we request the travelers to come to the meeting point as Cambodia is celebrating Water Festival. So, some streets around celebration area are be blocked.