Phnom Pen

Nice morning visiting the beautiful Royal Palace followed by a very emotional trip to the killing fields and genocide museum

The Royal Palace and Silver Pagoda date back to the 19th century and were built in classic Khmer style under the French protectorate. Contains a priceless collection of historical objects giving an insight into the past achievements of the Khmer Empire.

The‘Killing Fields’ of Choeung Ek, a mass gravesite discovered after the fall of the Khmer Rouge. Many of the dead were former inmates of the Tuol Sleng prison.
The Tuol Sleng Museum (Museum of Genocide), graphically displays the horrors of the four years when Pol Pot systematically ordered the murder of between 2m and 3m Cambodians. Tuol Sleng was originally a school but was used as a torture and interrogation centre between 1975 and 1979. It is a sobering, depressing and enlightening place to visit.Weiterlesen