2 Days Siem Reap to Phnom Penh – Private Tour

Pick up time is flexible follow our value customer, but the best time recommend is to start at 8am.

Your English speaking driver will be waiting for welcome you at your hotel lobby or at Phnom Penh Airport then explore around the city with the most interesting including historical and cultural sites:

• Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum:
  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 (S-21);by the Khmer Rouge regime from 1975 until its fall in 1979. From 1976 to 1979, an estimated 20,000 people were imprisoned at Tuol Sleng and it was one of between 150 and 196 torture and execution centers established by the Khmer Rouge and the secret police known as the Santebal (literally “keeper of peace”).

• Choeung Ek Genocidal Center:
  is a former orchard in Phnom Penh city, Cambodia, that was used as a Killing Field between 1975 and 1979 by the Khmer Rouge in perpetrating the Cambodian genocide. Situated about 17 kilometres (11 mi) south of the city centre, it was attached to the Tuol Sleng detention centre. The bodies of 8,895 victims were exhumed from the site after the fall of the Rouge, who would have been executed there—typically with pickaxes to conserve bullets—before being buried in mass graves.

• The Central Market (Phsar Thum Thmei):
  is a market and an art deco landmark, tourist can browsing and buy some sovieniar from here. The bright yellow building completed in 1937 has a 26-metre high central dome, with four tall arch-roofed arms branching out diagonally across the block, creating vast hallways housing countless stalls and a variety of goods. Initially designed by city architect Jean Desbois, construction works were supervised by French architect Louis Chauchon. When it first opened in 1937, it was said to be the biggest market in Asia; today it still operates as a market.

Afternoon: Relax for lunch at the local restaurants or back to your hotel  for relaxing and refreshing and start again at 2.30pm.

• Royal Palace in Phnom Penh:
  The palace was constructed by King Norodom between 1866 and 1870, a complex of buildings which serves as the official royal residence of the King of Cambodia. Largely in the traditional royal style common to Southeast Asia. It is situated at the Western bank of the confluence of the Tonle Sap River and the Mekong River called Chaktomuk (an allusion to Brahma).

• Silver Pagoda:
  This temple is called Wat Prak (the Silver Pagods) by foreign tourists as the entirety of the floor is covered with 5329 pieces of silver tile. Altogether, the tablets weigh 1,125 kg. There are 1,650 artifacts on display in the temple, most of which are made of gold, silver, bronze and adorned with precious stones such as diamonds, rubies, sapphires and other precious stones.

• National Museum in Phnom Penh:
  The National Museum of Cambodia works to enhance knowledge of and preserve Cambodian cultural traditions and to provide a source of pride and identity to the Cambodian people. Also the home to the world’s finest collection of Khmer sculpture: a millennium’s worth and more of masterful Khmer design. It’s housed in a graceful terracotta structure of traditional design (built from 1917 to 1920) with an inviting courtyard garden.

• Wat Phnom Daun Penh:
  The most popula buddhist temple for tourists and local poeple, Set on top of the only hill in town 27m-high and covered by the big trees. 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

Evening activity: walk along the river front or experience boat Cruise, enjoy live traditional Khmer music as you sail past the Royal Palace, and the city’s stunning skyline. Choose from a 5pm sunset cruise or a 7pm city lights, back to your hotel or Phnom Penh Airport (End of our services)