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Phnom Penh
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Phnom Penh is the only one Capital of Cambodia. It is burgeoning year after year. Comparing to over last five years, Phnom Penh is now very beautiful and quite different from what we saw before. It is considered as one of must visiting places in Cambodia. It is a crossroad of Asia's past and present, a city of extremes of poverty and excess, but one that never fails to captivate the visitor.
Legend has it that the city of Phnom Penh was founded when an old woman named Penh found four Buddha images that had come to rest on the banks of the Mekong River. |
| She housed them on a nearby hill, and the town that grew up here came to be known as Phnom Penh (Hill of Penh). The story, however, gives no hint as to why, in the 1430ss, Angkor was abandoned and Phnom Penh was chosen as the site of the new Cambodian capital. The move has been much lamented as evidence of cultural decline, but it made a good deal of practical sense. Angkor was poorly situated for trade and subject to attacks from the Siamese (Thai) kingdom of Ayuthaya. Phnom Penh commanded a more central position in the Khmer territories and was perfectly located for riverine trade with Laos and China, via the Mekong Delta. The Tonle Sap river provided access to the rich fishing grounds of the Tonle Sap lake. |
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| Royal Palace & Silver Pagoda |
Cambodia's Royal Palace, located along Sothearos Boulevard, was built in 1866, during the reign of King Norodom. Points of interest inside the palace include:
Prasat Tevea Vinichhay (the Throne Hall): The hall where Kings and Queens are crowned.
Prasat Khemarin: The hall where the monarchs live.
Prasat Samran Phirum: The hall where the monarchs ride the Royal Elephant.
Hor Baku or Hor Preah Khan: The hall where the throne objects and accessories are kept
Chan Chhaya: The hall where Royal Dance performers train. In front of the Chan Chhaya, there is a platform where the King can hold audiences with his subjects and all levels of officials. |
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| Wat Phnom |
| Located a short distance from the Royal Palace, the heart of the capital Wat Phnom is popular with Cambodians and tourists alike. It is the center of Phnom Penh that gives the city its name. At 27 meters above sea level, it is the highest point in the area, and, as a town gradually grew up around it, the settlement became known as Phnom Penh, the hill of Penh. It is zero point of the city. |
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| Central Market (Psar Thom Thmei) |
| The distinctive art-deco styling of the Central Market makes it stand out among the architecture of Phnom Penh. The Central Market was built in 1937. Today, most visitors to Phnom Penh tour this market, where they can shop for souvenirs. Clothes, jewelry, silver products, house wares, postcards, flowers, and electronic good are in abundance-in fact just about anything visitors could wish for. |
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| Tuol Sleng Genocidal Museum |
| Tuol Sleng Genocidal Museum is the former Tuol Sleng High School. In 1975, during the Khmer Rouge regime, the school was used as a prison and torture center, know at the time as S -21. Thousands of Cambodian and number of foreigners were housed and tortured there until they were executed. Today the site is a museum, where visitors can walk among some of the cells and look at the photos of hundreds of people who died there. There are also paintings, painted by artist Vann Vath, a former prisoner, that depict the torture of prisoners. |
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| National Museum |
| The National Museum of Phnom Penh is instantly recognizable, with its warm red terracotta and its gracefully curved roof topped by dozens of guardian nagas. Located just north of the Royal Palace, off the street of Artists (178 Street), it was designed in 1917 by famed French architect George Groslier and the Ecole des Arts Cambodgiens, who made the most of traditional Khmer Style. It was inaugurated by King Sisowath in 1920. |
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| Wat Ounalom |
| Wat Unaloam, located near the Royal Palace, is an ideal monastery for tourist to learn about Cambodian's Buddhism. This pagoda serves as the headquarters for one o Cambodia's most revered Buddhist patriarchs. In addition to the pagoda, there is a post-Angkorean stupa at this monastery. |
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| Information from: Trusted (Cambodia) Tours |
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