Half-Day Tour of the Killing Field and S21

4.7 (14 reviews) Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Duration4h
Free cancellationFull refund up to 24 hours before
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TicketMobile or paper ticket accepted
LanguagesEnglish
Group sizeUp to 15 travelers
Pickup offeredSee the meeting and pickup details below

Overview

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.

What's included

  • A professional English speaking tour guide
  • A professional driver with driving license.
  • Water and snack
  • A clean and safe transportation.
  • Tipping service and other personal expenses.
  • Personal travel insurance
  • Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum
  • Choeung Ek Genocidal Center

What to expect

  1. Choeung Ek Genocidal Center
    2h · Admission ticket not included
    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.
  2. Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum
    2h · Admission ticket not included
    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.

Meeting and pickup

Meeting point

178 Corner Sisovat quay, Riverside Path, Phnom Penh 120201

End point

178 Corner Sisovat quay, Riverside Path, Phnom Penh 120201

Pickup details

1. Departure morning:
- 8:00AM to 12:00pm
2. Departure afternoon:
- 1:00pm to 5:00pm
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, 1.7 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.

Additional information

  • Wheelchair accessible
  • Public transportation options are available nearby
  • Specialized infant seats are available
  • Transportation options are wheelchair accessible
  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels

Cancellation policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

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