At 07:45 AM, your Euro Khmer guide will pick you up from your Phnom Penh hotel or guesthouse and drive you to Udong – home to various temples and three large stupas (places of prayer)
The city, now a UNESO World Heritage Site, was home to a succession of kings – you can view the phials at the three stupas.
The city’s most impressive structure is the Vihara of the 18-Cubut Buddha. 30 meter high, it is just about survived first the American bombings and the brutal regime of the Khmer Rogue. On the way back to city center, you will have a lunch at the local restaurant(your own expense).
Heading back to Phnom Penh, stop at the silver smith village of Kompong Luong. After Lunch your guide and driver will drive you to the killing fields of Choeung Ek – 15 km south of Phnom Penh.
The infamous killing fields have a bloody history. Once an orchard and a Chinese cemetery, the Khmer Rogue, lead by Pol Pot, turned the place into what became known as the killing fields. Over four years they massacred and buried 2.5 million people.
After remembering the dead, return to Phnom Penh to visit Tuol Sleng Prison. Meaning hill of the poisonous trees, Pol Pot turned a once popular high school into a high security prison. 20,000 people were imprisoned there, many of whom were tortured for information. Today it serves as a museum and a reminder of darker days. Your Euro-Khmer guide will return you to your hotel or guesthouse in the early evening.
