Tour Highlights
Private Tour- Booking Code: AACPP3
Visit to the Notorious Tuol Sleng Museum, Independence Monument, Central Market, Phnom Praset, Sisowath Quay, Royal Palace, National Museum of Cambodia houses
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Tour Itinerary
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Day 1: Arrival-Phnom Penh (/L/D)
Arrive at Phnom Penh International Airport. On arrival your local English speaking guide will meet you for the transfer to visit the Wat Phnom is on the only ‘hill’ in town. According to legend, the first pagoda on this site was erected in 1373 to house four statues of Buddha deposited here by the waters of the Mekong River and discovered by Penh, the Royal Palace, built by King Norodom in 1866 on the site of the old town, and the Silver Pagoda. Located within the grounds of the Royal Palace, the Silver Pagoda is so named because of its floor, which is made up of 5000 silver tiles. Afternoon, visit to the National Museum of Cambodia houses one of the world’s greatest collections of Khmer cultural material including sculpture, ceramics and ethnographic objects from the prehistoric, pre-Angkorian, Angkorian and post-Angkorian periods, Enjoy 01Hour Sunset Cruise and the Sisowath Quay along the riverfront till dinner at local restaurant and overnight in Phnom Penh.
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Day 2: Phnom Penh (B/L/D)
After breakfast, visit to the Notorious Tuol Sleng Museum, In 1975 Tuol Svay Prey High School was taken over by Pol Pot’s security forces and turned into a prison known as Security Prison 21 (S-21) and the Killing Fields are a number of sites in Cambodia where collectively more than a million people were killed and buried by the communist Khmer Rouge regime, during its rule of the country from 1975 to 1979, immediately after the end of the Cambodian Civil War (1970–1975). Afternoon, the Central Market (Phsar Thmei) in Phnom Penh is one of those busy bazaars that are always filled with effervescent crowd from one end to the other. The Central Market (Phsar Thmei) of Phnom Penh stocks everything right from food items to clothes, silverworks and jewelries, the former King Norodom Sihanouk statue and the Independence Monument or Vimean Ekareach – as it is referred to in Khmer, is a majestic structure that dominates Phnom Penh city centre. Independence Monument was primarily erected to mark the liberation of the country from the French who ruled Cambodia for almost a century from 1863 to 1953 till dinner at local restaurant. Overnight in Phnom Penh.
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Day 3: Phnom Penh (B//)
After breakfast, overland excursion along the way to Ou Dong Mountain stopover in Phnom Praset, visit the Pre-Angkorian temple (8thC.) and the pagoda to view the reclining Buddha. Enjoy the beautiful view of the surrounding plains and rice-fields from the hilltop temple. Continue driving to Ou Dong where enjoy picnic lunch on your own orders and expenses. Afternoon visit the various temples and the three large stupas where the ashes of three former kings are preserved. Next visit the Vihara of 18 Cubit Buddha, until transfer back to Phnom Penh.
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Day 4: Phnom Penh-Departure (B//)
After breakfast, it’s free on your own leisure till transfer to Phnom Penh International Airport for your departure (driver only). End of services.