A half-day out of Phnom Penh, ideally on a bicycle
Koh Dach is a Mekong island a short ferry ride from Phnom Penh, known for household silk weaving still done on wooden looms under the houses. It is flat, shaded and almost traffic-free, which makes it the standard half-day escape from the city and the best easy cycling anywhere near the capital.
September 2026
Tuol Sleng was a secondary school in Phnom Penh that the Khmer Rouge converted into Security Prison 21, where thousands were detained and interrogated between 1975…
Choeung Ek, about 15 km south of Phnom Penh, is the best known of the sites where prisoners from S-21 were executed and buried in mass…
The National Museum of Cambodia holds the largest collection of Khmer sculpture in the world, housed in a terracotta-red pavilion built in the French period beside…
The Royal Palace has been the residence of Cambodia’s monarch since the 1860s, and the public can visit its throne hall, gardens and the adjoining Silver…