Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum and Choeung Ek Killing Fields: Remembering Cambodia's Darker Days
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Phnom Penh
Experience a haunting journey through Cambodia's dark history with a visit to the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum and Choeung Ek Killing Fields. Uncover the atrocities of the Khmer Rouge regime.
Duration: 4 hours
Cancellation: 1 day learn more
Highlights
  • Choeung Ek Genocidal Center - Cambodia’s History from 1975 to 1979
  • Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum - Cambodia’s History from 1975 to 1979
What's Included
  • Hotel Pick up
  • Clean, air-conditioned transportation
  • Complimentary cool water
  • Professional English-speaking tour guide and driver
What's Not Included
  • The Killing Field entrance fee ticket 3$/pax.
  • The Toul Sleng Museum (S21) entrance fee ticket 5$/pax.
  • Tipping service and other personal expenses.
Additional Information

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

  • 9 miles away south of Phnom Penh. The infamous killing fields have a bloody history. Once an orchard and a
    Chinese cemetery, the Khmer Rouge, lead by Pol Pot, turned the place into
    what became known as the killing fields, where they executed around 2.000 prisoners. Over three years, they massacred and buried 2.5 million people. After remembering the dead, return to Phnom Penh to visit Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum (S21). 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 guide will return you to your hotel or guesthouse. you could ask any question tour tour guide
Location
Grand River Sports Bar
Riverside Path
178 Corner Sisovat quay, Riverside Path, Phnom Penh 120201
Cancellation Policy

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

Customer Ratings
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Alison_p
Jun 9, 2024
An important tour well done - This is a potentially difficult tour as the sites you visit are so confronting and complex in nature. The guide was clear in his explanations and didn’t resile from the truth of what had happened here which made it a valuable and important experience.
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Y4520mxpaulw
May 3, 2024
A must visit tour - Our guide Visal delivered a passionate and informative overview of this human tragedy that happened in our life time. A recommended tour that won’t make you laugh or smile but a story that must be told to the human race..
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Z5239jkowens
May 3, 2024
Good tour - Our tour guide Sum Cheath was great. He was very knowledgeable and the tour had a good pace to it for us. It was a really informative tour and we learnt a lot about the history of Cambodia. Hotel pickup and drop off was nice and the AC’d minibus with free water was needed in the heat. Shoutout to our driver too, Mr Tay. 100% recommend doing this tour when visiting Phnom Penh to understand the history of the country.
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Matt_p
Apr 23, 2024
Must see - Our guide Mr Baboon was brilliant. He was engaging and funny. But was serious when needed telling us about the history. Well worth doing!
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Nathaliebc7245tr
Apr 19, 2024
Very interesting and a good tour guide - Our guide, Baboon, was very kind and informative and gave a good explanation of what we were seeing. The experience itself was very daunting but at the same time very interesting to learn about the recent history and get a better understanding of the country and people
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Barry
Apr 10, 2024
An Extremely Important + Moving Experience - Our Tour was led by BABOON - the PERFECT guide through this difficult and heart wrenching chapter in the history of humankind. The tour was: - INFORMATIVE. Baboon was an engaging and intelligent guide on the bus and during the visits of both the Killing Fields + S21. Full of knowledge, he was able to provide the necessary context and history around this dark period as well as deeper insights - perfect for both those without much background knowledge as well as those who are more across it. - BALANCED. Baboon sought to provide all this information in a balanced manner to allow the listeners to form their own opinions. At the right times (ie on the bus in between the heavy experiences), he provided insights and injected levity to the group as he shared information about Cambodian culture, daily life, attitudes, food + other things. - CONVENIENT. Very easy to organise through TripAdvisor (I booked it the night before in a handful of minutes). Hotel pick-up in the morning was available.
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U5243ajjohnm
Feb 20, 2024
Amazing - Amazing tour and guide so helpful with much information his name is Sum Cheath, very helpful, you have to do this on a visit to cambodia and see the atrocities carried out by the khmer rouge regime
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Amelia_r
Jan 31, 2024
Must do - Very informative, heartbreaking and moving tour. Our tour guide, Mr Baboon was incredibly knowledgable.
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Burgiog456
Jan 23, 2024
Excellente tour. Highly recommend. It is worth the money. - Sad but very meaningful. We should never forget, and we should teach younger generations about the past no matter how painful and traumatic it is. As our excellent, knowledgeable and friendly tour guide Mr Baboon told us, it is all about Education. Many thanks to our very good driver as well, Mr Rea (sorry if I'm misspelling your name). We went with our 3 children (21, 20 and 14), we were picked up at our hotel, given cold water bottle if we wanted to. Highly recommend this tour. BURGIO family, (Phalla TY)
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Leebx1372et
Jan 19, 2024
Killing Fields Tour - Well organised and informative tour, our tour guide, Visal was very knowledgeable and friendly. Highly recommended
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