Half-Day Tuol Sleng Museum and Cheung Ek Killing Fields
Phnom Penh, Cambodia
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Trip Type: Half-day Tours
Duration: 4 hours
Tuol Sleng Museum, known as the Museum of Genocidal Crimes was used by the Khmer Rouge as a detention and torture center in the late 1970. The Killing Fields at Cheung Ek are an important memorial site for Cambodians and visitors from all over the world to pay their respects for those lost. A visit to both is almost an essential item on your list when visiting Cambodia.
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Tuol Sleng Museum, known as the Museum of Genocidal Crimes was used by the Khmer Rouge as a detention and torture center in the late 1970. The Killing Fields at Cheung Ek are an important memorial site for Cambodians and visitors from all over the world to pay their respects for those lost. A visit to both is almost an essential item on your list when visiting Cambodia.Pick up from your Phnom Penh hotel by your guide and driver and transfer to the Toul Sleng Museum (Prison S21). During the Pol Pot regime, Toul Sleng, formerly a high school (Toul Svay Pre School) was converted to a detention center known as S21. After interrogation and often torture, prisoners were transferred to ‘Killing Fields’ where they were often tortured again and brutally killed. Today the building houses exhibit paintings and photographs of many of the victims. Visitors can see the crude cells built in the classrooms and the torture devices used to extract "confessions" in Stalinesque purges of the regime in the late 1970s.
We end the morning / afternoon at the Killing Fields at Cheung Ek, located just outside the city center. It was a Chinese Cemetery before it became the Khmer Rouge’s best known Killing Field. The remains of almost 9,000 bodies have been excavated from mass graves in this area. A memorial stupa has been erected and displays over 5,000 human skulls, bones and clothes of the victims. During the Khmer Rouge years, thousands of Cambodians were tortured and imprisoned in detention centers around the country; the visit is a profoundly moving but also depressing experience.
We return you back to your hotel either at around 12:00 hrs (in case you have chosen the morning tour) or at around 18:00 hrs if you decide to book this tour in the afternoon. The total duration of this tour is approximately 4 hours.
We end the morning / afternoon at the Killing Fields at Cheung Ek, located just outside the city center. It was a Chinese Cemetery before it became the Khmer Rouge’s best known Killing Field. The remains of almost 9,000 bodies have been excavated from mass graves in this area. A memorial stupa has been erected and displays over 5,000 human skulls, bones and clothes of the victims. During the Khmer Rouge years, thousands of Cambodians were tortured and imprisoned in detention centers around the country; the visit is a profoundly moving but also depressing experience.
We return you back to your hotel either at around 12:00 hrs (in case you have chosen the morning tour) or at around 18:00 hrs if you decide to book this tour in the afternoon. The total duration of this tour is approximately 4 hours.
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