Killing Fields and S21 Genocide Museum Tour from Phnom Penh

4.6(14)4 hFree cancellationBy Asian Trails LTD

Choeung Ek is the site of one of the infamous Killing Fields, where over a million prisoners were executed between 1975-1979.

About this activity

This half day tour visits two sites central to understanding Cambodia's recent history: Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum, known as S-21, and the Choeung Ek Killing Fields.

Tuol Sleng was once a high school before the Khmer Rouge converted it into a detention and interrogation centre. The museum preserves its cells, photographs and exhibits, documenting the fate of the thousands held here. From Tuol Sleng, continue to Choeung Ek, one of the country's best known killing fields, where a memorial stupa holds the remains of victims exhumed from the surrounding mass graves.

In July 2025, UNESCO inscribed Tuol Sleng and Choeung Ek, together with the former M-13 prison, as a World Heritage Site recognising these places of repression turned sites of peace and reflection.

This is a sobering, reflective visit, guided throughout to provide context and historical understanding.

What's included

✓A half day tour with a professional English-speaking guide.
✓All applicable taxes and service charges
✓Transportation by car / mini-van / coach with professional driver.
✓All entrance and donation fees for visits as mentioned in the description.

Not included

✕Tours, inclusions of any kind and other services that are not outlined in the tour description
✕Personal expenses such as meals, drinks, shopping, portage fees and optional tours.
✕Compulsory Christmas, country-specific festival and/or New Year dinner at included hotels
✕Travel insurance coverage for customers (highly recommendable)

Good to know

Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
Suitable for all physical fitness levels
This tour is operated on full private basis with English-speaking guide. Other languages are on request subject to availability and supplementary charges may apply.
Return transfers for this excursion apply only are inclusive for customers staying in and inside Phnom Penh.
Transfers outside these areas, including any accommodation outside this area such as Koh Dach, Tonle Bati, and Oudong, any of the river and cruise ferry terminals and Phnom Penh International Airport are excluded. Supplements apply for customers who want to join this excursion outside one of these regions.
This excursion includes obstacles of various kinds that may not make this excursion suitable for wheelchair users. The obstacles comprise of unpaved roads, small boats and cruise embarkation and disembarkation and insufficient facilities to provide a comfortable sightseeing tour.
To avoid any issues pertaining obtaining an arrival visa at the airport, please ensure that your passport contains at least two empty pages. Failure to do so may result in not gaining entrance into the Kingdom of Cambodia.
To allow entrance into the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum (S21) in Phnom Penh, visitors are obliged to uphold a very strict dress code to respect the premises and the victims who lost their lives here. It is essential that you dress modestly and appropriately during this excursion by wearing clothes that cover shoulders and fall below the knees. Customers wearing shirts with obscene and disrespectful prints and pictures and brightly-coloured clothing may be refused entrance.
We always will make efforts to confirm the exact pick-up time upon reservation. For any operational issues in which are not able to confirm the exact pick-up time in advance, we reserve the right to inform you the day before the departure of the tour.
Please note pickup and drop-off services may not be confirmed for customers staying at private residences, apartment complexes, or other non-registered tourism accommodations. Customers may be asked to meet at a nearby hotel for pick-up and drop off.
Natural elements of any kind have a destructive effect on electronic equipment.
It the customer’s own responsibility to ensure that any camera, mobile telephone or other device is properly wrapped and protected against these elements. We cannot be held responsible in any way for negligence and/or not following suggestions for any damage related to this.
It is the responsibility of the customer to provide us with the correct hotel information, should pick-up and drop-off services be included in the package. Any changes in accommodation outside 24 hours will be handled accordingly: changes within 24 hours may be on request.
In the event of no-show or change of accommodation without prior consent and confirmation from us within 24 hours may result in the applicable cancellation charges as outlined in the terms and conditions.
This tour is not recommended for families with children under the age of 12 years old.

Cancellation policy

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

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