Overview
This journey offers a powerful insight into Cambodia’s tragic past during the Khmer Rouge era, visiting the former S-21 prison at Tuol Sleng, where preserved classrooms and personal stories reveal the harsh realities faced by thousands of victims. The experience continues to the Killing Fields of Choeung Ek, a quiet yet deeply moving memorial site where mass graves and the remembrance stupa stand as reminders of one of the darkest chapters in Cambodian history. Along the way, there is also time to experience the city’s modern local life through the colorful Russian Market or a peaceful café stop.
About this activity: Toul Sleng S21 & Killing Fields
6 hour(s)
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Itinerary
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Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Breakfast Lunch Dinner
7:50 or 13:50, depart from your hotel.
8:00-9:00 or 14:00-15:00. You will discover Cambodia’s dark history and horror of Phnom Penh’s past of its city. First head, visit Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum, a former high school which was used as the notorious Security Prison 21 (S-21) by the Khmer Rouge regime.
If you wish to browse through the colorful Russian Market? It is the place to shop for discounted brand-name clothing, also the best place in the city for wooden and stone carvings, jewellery and silk souvenirs.
Or you may stop at Java Creative Café? (Note: Any consumption is on own account).
10:00-11:00 or 16:00-17:00. Then drive outskirts for a visit Killing Fields of Choeung Ek, a former orchard and mass grave of victims of the dark period. After the fall of the dark regime, graves containing about 8,895 bodies were discovered. A grim visit, but it is important site that will allow you to gain insight into Cambodia history.
