Half-Day Tour of the Killing Field and S21
A professional English-speaking tour guide will pick you up from your hotel and drive you to the killing fields of Choeung Ek Genocide Center – 17km away south of Phnom Penh. The infamous killing fields have a bloody history. Once an orchard and a Chinese cemetery, the Khmer Rouge, led by Pol Pot, turned the place into what became known as the killing fields, where they executed around 20.000 victims.
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Stop At: Choeung Ek Genocidal Center, Roluos Village, Sangkat Cheung Aek, Phnom Penh Cambodia
Is the site of a former orchard and mass grave of victims of the Khmer Rouge – killed between 1975 and 1979 – in Dangkao Section, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, about 17 kilometers (11 mi) south of the Phnom Penh city center. 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 and in other Cambodian detention centers. Today, Choeung Ek is a memorial, marked by a Buddhist stupa. The stupa has acrylic glass sides and is filled with more than 9,000 human skulls. Some of the lower levels are opened during the day so that the skulls can be seen directly. Many have been shattered or smashed in. Tourists are encouraged by the Cambodian government to visit Choeung Ek.
Duration: 2 hours
Stop At: Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum, Corner of Street 113 & St 350 History Museum, Phnom Penh 12304 Cambodia
The Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum or simply Tuol Sleng 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 by the Khmer Rouge regime from 1975 until its fall in 1979. To accommodate the victims of purges that were important enough for the attention of the Khmer Rouge, a new detention center was planned in the building that was formerly known as the Tuol Svay Pray High School, named after a royal ancestor of King Norodom Sihanouk, the five buildings of the complex were converted in March or April 1976 into a prison and an interrogation center.
Duration: 2 hours
Informacion Adicional
"Wheelchair accessible"
"Near public transportation"
"Infant seats available"
"Transportation is wheelchair accessible"
"Most travelers can participate"
"This tour/activity will have a maximum of 15 travelers"
"Confirmation will be received at time of booking"
Duración: 4 Hours
Lugar de comienzo: Grand River Sports Bar, 178 Corner Sisovat quay, Riverside Path, Phnom Penh 120201, Cambodia
Traveler pickup is offered
1. Departure morning:
- 8:15 AM to 12:15 PM
2. Departure afternoon:
- 1:15 PM to 5:30 PM
3. Travelers need to provide us WhatsApp contact so that we can communicate faster.
4. We provide free pick up directly at the travelers' hotel, hostel, apartment, etc., only in the city center, 2.2 kilometers from the radius of the meeting point.
5. We provide free pick up for any traveler(s) whose hotel is in our picking up area. Before the tour start, we always check the location of the traveler on the ticket, if it is outside our picking up area, we would like all the traveler to come to our meeting point at Grand River Sports Bar, address: 178 Corner Sisovat quay, Riverside Path, Phnom Penh 120201. If traveler has any concern or urgent question, please kindly contact to numbers: +855 78 45 71 58 or +855 388 13 88. These two numbers have been signed up with WhatsApp, as well. So, the traveler(s) can contact us via Cambodia number or WhatsApp with the same numbers.
Cancelaciones y devoluciones:
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours in advance of the start time of the experience.
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