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#1 of 10 things to do in Phnom Penh
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thenewextrememimi says:
S21 is the infamous prison where almost 20,000 men, women and children were interned, tortured and sent to await death for supposedly being spies against the Khmer Rouge. The prisoners were kept in tiny cells with a metal box for a toilet, tortured until they named other supposed spies, and eventual…
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#2 of 10 things to do in Phnom Penh
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thenewextrememimi says:
The Royal Palace is a complex of pretty wats, buildings and gardens, where the King of Cambodia still lives, although lots of guards and ropes prevent you from meeting him. However, much of the courtyard is still open for viewing, including gorgeous stuctures like Throne Hall and the Silver Pagoda. …
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#3 of 10 things to do in Phnom Penh
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Adrian_Liston says:
Choeung Ek Memorial (The Killing Fields) and Toul Sleng Genocide Museum should be a mandatory visit for any traveller going to Cambodia. It is a gut-wrenching experience that brings home just how savage the Khmer Rouge were under the leadership of Pol Pot, how much damage they did to Cambodia, and h…
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#4 of 10 things to do in Phnom Penh
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sarahelaine says:
The Royal Palace in Phnom Penh is well worth a visit. The palace itself is magnificent, with gorgeous architecture and interesting art. There are fascinating friezes (the Ramayana features large), little shrines, and some magnificent buildings and displays.
The highlight for many is the incredib…
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#5 of 10 things to do in Phnom Penh
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thenewextrememimi says:
The Khmer Rouge gained control of Phnom Phen in 1975, in the chaos of civil war and U.S. bomb raids relating to the war for neighboring Vietnam. They evacuated the population into the countryside, eliminated modern medicine and forced everyone into backbreaking yet horrendously inefficient rural wor…
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#6 of 10 things to do in Phnom Penh
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droonsta says:
Bonn Om Touk, is the largest festival in the Cambodian calendar. Each year the festival falls on a different date according to the full moon. However it usually hovers around the early to mid November period. During the 3 day public holiday, villagers from all over the country flock to the capital c…
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#7 of 10 things to do in Phnom Penh
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sarahelaine says:
The Russian Market is one of the best markets I have ever been to. It makes every other place I have ever shopped look half hearted.
It was always intended to appeal to foreigners; the name refers to the Russian ex pats who shopped here when very few other foreigers were even allowed in the cou…
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#8 of 10 things to do in Phnom Penh
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sarahelaine says:
The National Museum is across a little square from teh back of the Royal Palace. It is a gorgeous, traditional looking building set in gardens.
The building itself, and the gardens, are lovely, and almost worth a trip themselves. But you are, of course, there for the Angkor empire art. A lot…
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#9 of 10 things to do in Phnom Penh
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thenewextrememimi says:
Wat Phnom is a nice place to spend a half hour or so in Phnom Phen. Perched on a little hill, the pagoda is a very pretty structure with a lot of random stuff around it. There's an elephant that you can ride in circles around the bottom of the hill, lots of monkeys just running loose around the plac…
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#10 of 10 things to do in Phnom Penh
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sojourner74 says:
Kep used to be the playground for the rich in Cambodia as it was near the capital. But after the wars it has largely gone into disrepair. Still there are many grand old colonial houses overlooking the bay that bring to mind how bustling it must have been during it's hay day.
Last I visited a few ye…
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