Phnom Penh, Cambodia

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Website: www.phnompenh.gov.kh/english/introduction.html
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Phnom Penh, like other Asian-City tourist destinations, is in the midst of rapid change. Over the past few years the number of restaurants and hotels have grown considerably and in the last year there had been a huge increase in the number of visitors.The city offers several cultural and historical attractions including the Royal Palace, Silver Pagoda and the National Museum. There are also a wide variety of services including five star hotels and budget guest houses, fine international dining.

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Nemesis

27 Sep 2007 at 3:13 pm

Inaccurate review?

I was in Phnom Penh abt a year ago on a holiday for a week. Phnom Penh is the capital of Cambodia. In my opinion, the city was likened to the perhaps late 60's to early 70's in SIngapore, whereby the street was full of rubbish, shophouses could be seen everywhere.

I was staying put at a friend's residence during my stay there. Over there, the main modes of transport were either motorcycles, tut-tuks, car or by foot. There is no public transport available as almost everyone was owning a motorcycle, which could double up as their tool for fetching tourists or locals around for a mere dollar USD. The tut-tuks would usually cost two USD but you can always try bargaining down to one USD most of the time. However, I chose to walk around mostly on foot so that I can see more although the heat was really scorching.

There are also many places of interest that I had gone to and they are namely the Royal Palace, Phsar Thom Thmei, the Silver Pagoda, the National Museum, Independence Monument (Khmer: Vimean Akareach), the Cambodia-Vietnam Friendship Monument, the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum, and Wat Phnom.

Amongst them the most memorable one was perhaps the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum. This was a former high school which was used as the notorious Security Prison 21 (S-21) concentration camp by the Khmer Rouge regime from its rise to power in 1975 to its fall in 1979 is one of the city's most moving landmarks. In there, you can see the living cells of the prisoners held there in the past, the kind of tools that were used to torture the prisoners. Also, all the pictures of the prisoners held there were displayed in several room and you could really feel a rush of sadness at that moment for the prisoners, some whom were just kids and were subjected to the most cruel form of torture you could not have imagined.

from this trip, I got to know more about Phnom Penh and experience a whole new different culture. It was truly enriching and I strongly recommend you guys and gals to go there and experience it for yourselves.