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The Royal Palace was built in 1866 under the reign of King Norodom and is located along the Sothearos Boulevard. Inside the Royal Palace, there are: Tevia Vinichhay Temple: The place where the King is on throne. Khemarin Temple: The place where the King and Queen live. Somran Phirum Temple: The place where the King rides the Royal Elephant. Hor Baku or Hor Preah Khan: The place where keeping the throne objects and accessories. Chan Chhaya: The Royal dance hall for king and relatives and high-ranking officers. In front of the Royal dance hall, there is a platform for the King to hold the meeting with people and all levels of officials.
PREAH KEO MORAKOT TEMPLE:
Wat Preah Keo Morakot had imitated the Cambodian architecture and been built since 1892 to 1902. Then, it was removed and reconstructed in 1962. More...
In 1372, there was a mountain supervised by grandmother Penh before King Ponhea Yat. Until 15th century King Ponhea Yat built the capital in Phnom Penh. In the area of Wat Phnom, there are a big stupa behind the temple used for keeping the cremated ash of the King, Ponhea Yat, the stupas for keeping cremated ash of the Royal families and remaining Buddhist statues of Angkorean era in the big stupa behind. Most local and international visitors like to visit Wat Phnom.
Was built from 1917-1918 and located in the North of the Royal Palace. The National Museum contains a lot of precious ancient objects relating to Cambodian history. It attracts a lot of international visitors, which ranks after the Royal Palace.
TOUL SLENG GENOCIDAL MUSEUM:
In the former time, this museum was the Secondary School of Toul Sleng. In 1975 this school became the torturing place for thousands of Cambodian people (this place was named " S21 " during the Pol Pot regime) who were seriously tortured until died in different ways. Nowadays the Toul Sleng museum remains a lot of evidences include bones and skeletones. In addition, there is another genocidal museum at Cheung Ek pagoda in Cheung Ek Commune, Dang Kor District. CENTRAL MARKET Was built in 1937. Nowadays all foreign visitors who arrived at Phnom Penh have never missed this place to look at the products, especially the silver and gold selling shops.
WAT UNALOAM:
Wat Unaloam is a monastery for tourists who visit and find out the religion in our country. In addition, the monastery has a stupa built after Angkor. In Phnom Penh, there are 86 priests, 1,633 monks, 859 novices, 2,520 monks, one chief of monks and seven Deputy chiefs of monks. RELAXING PLACES Besides the above main places in Phnom Penh, there are other places like the Park of Chatomuk Hall for performing the Cambodian dance, the Park of Independent Monument, the Park of Samdech Hun Sen and the Naga resort. In addition, there are a lot of Casinos and night Clubs in Phnom Penh.