Phnom Penh Trip Overview
Exciting experience with this trip focusing on all main places in Phnom Penh! Describing about culture, civilization of Cambodia at National Museum. You will get information of Cambodian Royal Family at Royal Palace. Learn the emotional experience of brutalities during Khmer Rough Time. Get inside the popular market to investigate how to haggle about the price and purchase goods between sellers and buyers. Take a ferry crossing Mekong River to silk island to discover the silks farm and how to make some local products for daily lives in Cambodia.
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* Duration: 3 days
* Starts: Phnom Penh, Cambodia
* Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Cultural Tours
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What to Expect When Visiting Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Cambodia
Exciting experience with this trip focusing on all main places in Phnom Penh! Describing about culture, civilization of Cambodia at National Museum. You will get information of Cambodian Royal Family at Royal Palace. Learn the emotional experience of brutalities during Khmer Rough Time. Get inside the popular market to investigate how to haggle about the price and purchase goods between sellers and buyers. Take a ferry crossing Mekong River to silk island to discover the silks farm and how to make some local products for daily lives in Cambodia.
Itinerary
Day 1: Phnom Penh-Royal Palace-National Museum
Stop At: Royal Palace, Sothearos between Street 240 & 184, Phnom Penh Cambodia
We explore the stunning Royal Palace complex, home to the Cambodian royal family and a symbol of the nation. We begin amid the beautiful royal gardens, landscaped with tropical plants and studded with gleaming spires. We enter the Throne Hall where the royal receptions are held and the Cambodian king’s coronation took place. We then pass the Napoleon III Pavilion made from iron, a gift from the French emperor in the 19thcentury.We continue to the Silver Pagoda, named after the 5000 silver tiles covering the floor, each weighing 1kg. Inside are some of the country’s most cherished treasures, including a life-size gold Buddha studded with 9584 diamonds, the largest weighing 25 carats.
Duration: 3 hours
Stop At: National Museum, 13th St. Between 178th and 184th Sts., Phnom Penh Cambodia
National Museum, home to the world’s finest collection of sculpture from the Angkor period. The exquisite building was completed between 1917 and 1920 and features a lush courtyard garden surrounded by collections from the pre-Angkor, Angkor and post-Angkor periods. We concentrate on the incredible sandstone sculpture from Angkor, as well as the intricate bronzes.
Duration: 3 hours
No meals included on this day.
No accommodation included on this day.
Day 2: Toul Sleng-Killing Field-Market-Wat Phnom
Stop At: Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum, Corner of Street 113 & St 350 History Museum, Phnom Penh 12304 Cambodia
TuolSleng was a former high school that the Khmer Rouge turned into a centre for interrogation, torture and death. Today it is a museum of torture and serves to remind visitors of the terrible atrocities that came to pass in Cambodia. 17,000 people passed through the gates of this prison and only seven lived to tell the tale. Experience and not everyone will want to visit. However, it is key to understanding the hell into which Cambodia descended and how far it has come in the years since.
Duration: 2 hours
Stop At: Choeung Ek Genocidal Center, Roluos Village, Sangkat Cheung Aek, Phnom Penh Cambodia
We travel out of town to the Killing Fields of Choeng Ek. Prisoners from Tuol Sleng followed this same route to their fate. An old Chinese cemetery, Choeng Ek was turned into an extermination camp for political prisoners. The remains of 8985 people were exhumed from mass graves and are kept in a memorial stupa here. Despite the horrors of the past, it is a peaceful place to go and a tranquil spot to reflect on the tragic events that engulfed Cambodia and its people.
Duration: 2 hours
Stop At: Russian Market, Street 163 Corner of Street 444, Phnom Penh 12310 Cambodia
We travel to the Russian Market, one of the premier shopping destinations in the Cambodian capital. Known as PsarTuol Tom Pong, it earned its nickname in the 1980s, when Russians were the only tourists in Cambodia. A rambling place, it is bursting with bargains, including handicrafts, carvings, silk and textiles, clothing and footwear, and lots of pirated software, CDs and DVDs, not forgetting enough motorcycle parts to assemble a homemade moped.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Wat Phnom, Street 96 Norodom Blvd, Phnom Penh Cambodia
Wat Phnom, a symbol of the city. Located on one of the few hills in this pancake-flat capital, the first pagoda was originally built in 1373 to house Buddha statues discovered in the Mekong by a woman named Penh. This gives us the modern name of the city, Phnom Penh or Hill of Penh. Cambodians come to the shrine to pray for luck in love and life, employment and exams, so there it is always a bustling place.
Duration: 2 hours
No meals included on this day.
No accommodation included on this day.
Day 3: Phnom Penh-Silk Island ( Koh Dach )
Stop At: Koh Dach, Koh Dach
If you are keen to see a slice of rural Cambodia and learn how the silk-weavers produce those beautiful sarongs and scarves, then set aside a half-day trip by boat to a nearby island in the Mekong River called KohDach, also known as ‘Silk Island’. We travel to a small village where silk weaving is their livelihood and where there is a loom under every house. We can see the weaving techniques first-hand and experience the realities of village life up close and personal.
Duration: 4 hours
No meals included on this day.
No accommodation included on this day.
