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Phnom Penh City Tour: National Museum, Royal Palace, Silver Pagoda, Toul Sleng



The experience:

Wanna travel through the whole city of Phnom Penh but not a reliable tour can catch your attention? Why not join in the KKday full day city tour to the 4 famous destinations including museums, palace and pagoda. It will be your best way to have better know of Cambodia for sure.

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- Starting Time:8:00am

- Departure Point:From your hotel in Phnom Penh

- Time Duration:About 6 hours

- Return Details:Back to your hotel in Phnom Penh

- Highlights -

# The famous local operator- Green Era Travel which be rated 5 star on TripAdvisor.

# Private tour to National Museum (or Killing fields), Royal Palace, Silver Pagoda and Toul Sleng

# Private tour guide and transportation make your trip more customized.

- What You Can Expect -

Phnom Penh is nowadays a bustling city and its ochre-colored colonial buildings, bustling squares, trendy cafés, and frangipani-lined boulevards create an atmosphere that is unlike any other city in Southeast Asia. Set out on a city tour to visit the National Museum, which houses Khmer art and sculptures from different periods of Cambodian history, and visit the Royal Palace. (Open from 8.00am to 10:30am and from 2.00pm to 5.00pm. Women should cover their shoulders and both men and women should wear skirts or shirts covering their knees). The palace was built in 1866 by the French for King Norodom and is also home to the Silver Pagoda, which received its name because its floor is made up of 5,329 silver tiles. The palace has been inhabited by kings at all times with the exception of the period when the radical Khmer Rouge party took control in 1975. Under its leader Pol Pot, the Khmer Rouge seized power and declared ‘year zero’. Opt to learn more about these turbulent years when visiting the infamous Tuol Sleng Museum in the afternoon. Return to your hotel or to one of the riverside cafes or bars where you may want to take in the sunset.

*** You can select alternative tour package by changing National Meseum into Killing Fields (Choeung Ek Memorial). Check more information below.

- Attractions -

# National Meseum

The National Museum of Cambodia in Phnom Penh is the country’s leading historical and archaeological museum. It was officially inaugurated by King Sisowat in 1920.The buildings are inspired by Khmer temple architecture and house more than 14,000 items. The National Museum contains the world’s largest collection of Khmer art, including sculpture, ceramics, bronzes, and ethnographic objects dating from prehistoric times to periods before, during, and after the Khmer Empire.The Museum also serves a religious function. Its collection of important Buddhist and Hindu sculptures includes a Post-Angkorian Buddha supported by UNESCO.

# Royal Palace

Built in 1866. The Royal Palace serve as the residence of the King of Cambodia. The Royal Pal博客來網路書店ace complex and attached 'Silver Pagoda' compound consist of several buildings.

# Silver Pagoda

Set in the south side of the Royal Palace. The Silver Pagoda is famous for consisting of 5,329 solid silver on the floor.

# Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum

The site is a former high school which was used as the notorious Security Prison 21 (S-21) by the Khmer Rouge regime in 1975. Tuol Sleng means "Hill of the Poisonous Trees" or "Strychnine Hill". Of the 14,000 people known to have entered, only seven survived. Now it is one of the famous destinations for visiting.

# Choeung Ek Memorial

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.