Accommodation: Hotel/Ecolodge
Meals included: Breakfast
Breakfast at hotel.
08:30am, our guide & driver will pick you up from hotel’s lobby for a full day tour by begin your first stop at The Independence Monument; designed by the Cambodian architect, Vann Molyvann, he was the foremost of a generation of architects who contributed to the unique style of architecture that emerged during 1950s-1960s and that has been coined New Khmer Architecture. With 37 meters tall in a form of lotus-shaped stupa was built in 1958 to memorialise Cambodia's independence from France in 1953.
Your next stop at Toul Sleng Genocide Museum or also known as prison number “S-21”. From 1975- 1979, Formerly a school building, S-21 the site served as an interrogation and extermination center, operated by the regime of “Democratic Kampuchea”, commonly known as the “Khmer Rouge regime. Prisoners were systematically tortured and murdered on site or on the killing field of Cheung Ek.
Then head out at South-West from the center about 15km to Choeung Ek or the best-known as the Killing Fields, it was a place where more than 17,000 civilians were killed and buried in mass graves; many of them transported here after detention and torture in Toul Sleng. This place is a chilling reminder of the brutalities of the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime. In the center of the area is a 17-story glass stupa which houses 8000 skulls exhumed from mass graves.
We come back to the city for lunch and tour in afternoon to visit the Royal Palace, built by King Norodom in 1866 on the site of the old town, and the Silver Pagoda. Located within the Royal Palace, the Silver Pagoda is so named because of its floor, which is made up of 5000 silver tiles. The treasures found inside include a solid gold Buddha encrusted and weighing 90kilograms and a small 17th century emerald and baccarat crystal Buddha. After finished of seeing a beautiful Royal Garden in palace, we’ll move to Wat Phnom “Mountain Pagoda” a pagoda on the only hill in town. According to legend, the first pagoda on this site was erected in 1372 to house four statues of Buddha deposited here by the waters of the Mekong River and discovered by Lady Penh. Hence the city name Phnom Penh or 'hill of Penh'.
Now time for you to rolling around the Central Market (Phsar Thmei), a large market constructed in 1937 in the shape of a dome with four arms branching out into vast hallways with countless stalls of goods. The four wings of this gigantic yellow dome are teeming with stalls that sell goods ranging from gold and silver, antique coins, money exchange, books, flowers, food, fabrics, shoes, souvenirs, seafood and countless other products. If time permitted, walk along 4 face rivers to take fresh air or take optional sunset cruise to view wonder sunset seeing Phnom Penh at evening.
Overnight in Phnom Penh.