Phnom Penh is the mega city of Cambodia. It homes of about 2 million people, business hubs, education center and more. In the matter of fact, this capital has developed rapidly over the years in term of infrastructure, economy and modern urban lifestyle. Tourist who come to visit the city regularly spend most of the time sightseeing these 7 places and landmarks.

1.Royal Palace

There are few significant attractions in Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia but our first pick to start our day is visiting The Royal Palace, located in the central of the city along the Mekong River.  The Royal Palace opens publicly every day from 8 am to 5 pm in the evening to welcome tourists from all over the world to see its beauty and learning about its history.  If you are keen of history, we recommend you to hire tour guide, who will basically talk to you more about the function of every individual building in the compound.

2. National Museum

The ancient artifacts, sculptures, jewelry, daily used products and weaponry of Khmer people aging from millennium to recent century are all collected and well protected under the roof of National Museum of Cambodia. Majority of the artifacts present the whole world of the most masterful era of Khmer in art and design.

3.S21 Genocide Museum

The fresh wound of Cambodian people was the civil war, which had recently finished 40 years ago. This war caused millions of deaths, handicap people and soldiers and distraught families. S21 is one of many others which then used as prison by Khmer rouge regime and infamously killed roughly ten thousand of innocent people and war hostage.

4.Cherng Ek Genocide Museum

Cherng Ek is located south of Phnom Penh city about 40 minutes by local transportation tuk tuk. It is also a museum of remembering who had been unjustly killed during the Khmer rouge era.

5.Wat Phnom

Wat Phnom is the most famous landmark in Cambodia. It is believed to be a birthplace of Phnom Penh city around 400 years ago. This hilly site was initiated to build by grandmother who was then known as “Lady Penh”. She built it purposely for worshiping after she collected 4 small Buddhist status and 1 Hindu status of god from the flowing river of Mekong. These 5 statuses had washed up from nowhere and stuck behind the lady house inside the carving hole of the logging.

6.  Independent Monument

Cambodia used to be colonized by French people for almost 100 years between 1863 to 1953. However, from a great sacrifice for the independent of his country, the former king of Cambodia, Norodom Sihanouk was the key to successive independent reclamation from the government of France by 9^th November 1953.

7.Koh Dach

Koh Dach is also known as Silk Island. It is an alternative escape for tourist to absorb and refresh their mind at the meantime earning knowledge on how the famous silk island people produce their silky clothes, souvenir as well as traditional Khmer clothes from.