Visiting with Tuol Sleng, as one difficult half-day
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 graves. It is now a memorial centred on a stupa holding thousands of skulls, with a quiet walking route around the excavated pits and an audio guide that carries the site rather than narrating it.
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…
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…
Wat Phnom is the temple on the small wooded hill that gives Phnom Penh its name - literally the hill of Penh, after the woman the…