Private Tour: Phnom Penh City Tour including the Silver Pagoda

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Explore Phnom Penh on this full-day private tour, takes in some of Cambodia's finest pieces of Khmer and French influences with visits in the morning to the Silver Pagoda and National Museum. After a tasty lunch, you will visit the Tuol Sleng Museum, a testament to Cambodia's recent bloody past under Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge regime.

Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia, was a bustling commercial hub during French colonial days and today has re-established itself as the political and financial center of the country. Its rich historical past can be traced to the Khmer and French influence evident in the ornate Khmer-style temples and the grand colonial buildings and villas. The most obvious examples of this include the National Museum and the Silver Pagoda which you will visit in the first part of this tour. After a tasty lunch, take a sobering look at Cambodia's disturbing past with a visit to the Tuol Sleng Museum, a testament to Cambodia's recent bloody past under the Khmer Rouge regime.

This tour operator is the 2007 Conde Naste winner of the Best Operator category in the World Saver Awards

USD $68.00

Review by:   TRAL,    December 2017
Very good tour with very good guide.

Review by:   Lia S,    October 2017
Brilliant.

Review by:   Fiona R,    August 2017
Mr Virak was an amazing tour guide. I felt safe and this trip delivered. Why the Killing Fields were not included was rather odd as this is what I really wanted to see. Was happy to pay more to have the complete tour. The tour delivered and much more. The food at Friends was exceptional. Thank you I definitely recommend this tour.

Review by:   aprefontaine,    January 2017
The private Tour of Phenom Penh City was fantastic especially if you are a history buff like myself. The tour of the Pagodas was great, but the real fascination for me was the visit to the Tuol Sleng prison, S- 21, which was one of many, but the most famous, prisons of the Khemer Rouge regime which beginning April 17, 1975. This is a great place to start if you are tracing the Pol Pot and the Khemer Rouge genocide and the killing fields of Cambodia. What happened here is even more chilling when you realize that these events happened in the 1975- 78 period of Cambodian history. I even met 2 of the only 7 survivors of the 17,000 prisoners sent to S-21. They were there at the site for a book signing and to tell their horrific story of captivity and their lost of family members. I was so touched by the visit that I went back a second time to reflect in disbelief what i had witnessed. Truly amazing that 1.7 million Cambodians could be exterminated in such a short period of time while the world sat on their hands letting such an atrocities happen!

Review by:   monte,    March 2015
Excellent tour

Review by:   HARAPRASAD DASH,    January 2014
Royal Palace and Silver Pagoda are worth visiting.The guide was helpful.The visit to the jail depicts the torture the Cambodians had undergone.Until unless one visits the place,one cannot feel it.I thank victor.com to make us aware the fact.