Phnom Penh Short Tours

Upon arrival at Phnom Penh airport by evening time, welcome by our friendly guide and transfer to hotel for check in.

Dinner at local restaurant and Overnight at Hotel in Phnom Penh.

Breakfast at hotel.

Visit to National Museum, the distinctive red building with a beautiful Khmer architecture was build since 1917 and contains more than 5000 art objects made of sandstone, bronze, silver, copper, wood and others. They are really the cultural treasure of Cambodian and the Royal Palace Compound build in 1866 by King Norodom, is the most conspicuous feature and also one of impressive colorful Khmer-style Palaces. Nearside the Royal Palace is Silver Pagoda (The Emerald Buddha temple), display plenty of Buddha Statues that were decorated and made by diamond, emerald, gold and silver.

Lunch at local restaurant.

Afternoon tour visit at Toul Sleng Genocidal Museum and Choeung Ek Killing Field. Visit to Toul Sleng Genocide Museum, Prior to 1975, Toul Sleng was a high school by under the Khmer Rouge it was converted into a prison and interrogation facility. Inmates were systematically tortured to extract confessions and then were killed at Killing Fields of Choeung Ek. S-21 processed over 17,000 peoples, seven of whom survived. The building now serves as a museum, a memorial and a testament to the madness of the Khmer Rouge regime. Much has been left in the state it was when the Khmer Rouge abandoned it in December 1998. The prison kept extensions, many of which are on display. Paintings of torture at the prison by Vann Nath, a survivor of Toul Sleng, are also on display. The museum also contains the famous and controversial “Skull map”.

Dinner at local restaurant and Overnight in Phnom Penh

Breakfast at hotel.

Leave for Tonle Bati, 35 km south of Phnom Penh, to visit two Angkorian era Temples: Ta Phrom and Yeay Peau, which have some interesting bas-reliefs in fairly good condition. Both were built under Jayavarman VII in the late 12th century during the same period that Bayon and Angkor Thom were constructed. After that, we continue to visit a silk weaving village before proceeding to Prasat Neang Khmao. Visit Prasat Neang Khnom, the temple of the Black Virgin (10th Century).

Lunch Box will be served during this trip.

Visit to Wat Phnom Daun Penh the name of a pagoda, was built by lady Daun Penh in 1372 on a little hill, legend has it that after a particularly heavy flood, a wealthy Khmer woman named Daun Penh found a tree on the banks of the Mekong with four statues of Buddha hidden inside. Today Wat Phnom remains the highest artificial hill in Phnom Penh and the center of many forms of leisure activity. Visit to Wat Ounalom is the Phnom Penh’s five original monasteries (1422). Until 1999, it housed the institute Buddhique and library. Then visit to Independence Monument which was constructed in 1954 after Cambodian took their country back from French colony. Transfer to airport for return flight at night time.