Phnom Penh Tours
Provided by Heng Teng, your personal tour guide and taxi driver
Tel: (012) 926-043
Overseas: +855 (12) 926-043
Just a few of the many attractions in Cambodia I can take you to:
- Angkor Temples
- Bokor Hill
- Kbal Spean
- Kirirom Hillside
- Kompong Luong
- Mekong Island
- Mekong River
- Mondulkiri
- Outside Phnom Penh
- Phnom Oudong
- Phnom Penh
- Phnom Tamo Zoo
- Ratanakiri
- River Dolphin
- Royal Palace
- Seaside destinations
- Temples
- Tonl'e Sap
- Toul Sleng Museum
Toul Sleng Genocide Museum
In 1975, Toul Svay Prey High School was taken by Pol Pot's security forces and turned into a prison known as security S-21. It soon became the largest center of detention and torture in the country. Between 1975-1978, more than 17,000 people held at S-21 were taken to the extermination camp killing field of Choeng Ek. The detainees who died during the torture were buried in mass graves in the prison ground and several foreigners from Australia, France, and the United States were also held at S-21 before being murdered.
As the Khmer Rouge revolution reached over the greater heights of insanity, it began devouring its own children. Generations of torturers and executioners who worked at S-21 were in turn killed by those who took their places.
When the Vietnamese army liberated Phnom Penh in early 1979, it found seven prisoners alive at S-21, fourteen others had been tortured to death as the Vietnamese army was closing in on the city.
The Killing Field of Choeng Ek
Between 1975-1978, about 17,000 men, women, children, and infants, including 9 westerners who had been detained and tortured at S-21 were transported to the extermination camp called the killing field of Choeng Ek. They were often bludgeoned to death to avoid wasting precious bullets.
The remains of 8,985 people, many of whom were bound and blindfolded, were exhumed from mass graves in 1980. Fragments of human bone and hints of clothing are scattered around the compound. There are more than 8,000 skulls arranged by sex and age.