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Killing Fields and Prison S21 Bus Tour
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Killing Fields and Prison S21 Bus Tour
The Killing Fields and Prison S21 Bus Tour will take you to 2 most important historic sites of Cambodia recent history.
Our friendly English speaking tour assistant will come to pick you up at your hotel, then head to the first site of the tour: Prison S21, on an air-conditioned comfortable tour bus. At this school turned to prison you will learn what happened there during Khmer Rouge regime. After an hour and 15 minutes visit at the museum, you will be taken to the next site: Killing Fields, which is located 20 km outside of Phnom Penh. During a 30 minute drive to the Killing Fields, you can watch a documentary film on board about the leader of Khmer Rouge Pol Pot. You will have 1 hour and 15 minutes to explore the site where thousands of people killed and buried in mass graves.
Audio guide in 15 languages is available for purchase along with a map at both sites.
Our tour assistant will be on-hand to help you during the tour.
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- Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
- Not recommended for travelers with spinal injuries
- Not recommended for travelers with poor cardiovascular health
- Travelers should have at least a moderate level of physical fitness
- Please provide your WhatsApp number when you make the booking as we will contact you via WhatsApp for pick up time, or you can ask your hotel reception to call our local number 015745880 to confirm pick up time and location the night before the tour, or you can send us an email 1 day in advance to confirm hotel pick up time and location. Please provide hotel name & address (as some hotels have similar names), and room number for pick up.
- The Killing Fields tour is a shared bus tour, please be on time for pickup. If your hotel is located near Riverside, Central Market (not including Russian BLVD), Wat Phnom, Royal Palace, Independence monument, Aeon Mall, Kirirom, BKK, we will offer free hotel pick up. But some hotels are not in our pick up zone due to traffic problem. Guests who stay in those hotels are advised to come to Night Market at Riverside (bus station) for pick up at 8am or 1:30pm, or to arrange your own transportation such as tuktuk ($2-$5 depending on your hotel location) to go to a meeting point for pick up. If you stay at a residential address within our pick up zone, you will be advised to go to a hotel suggested by our office for pick up. Please check the location of your hotel before you book this tour.
- Pick up times: Morning tour pick up starts from 8am. If your hotel is near riverfront, pick up time will be between 8am - 8:15am. If your hotel is a bit far away from riverside, pick up time will be between 8:15am - 9:00am. Afternoon tour pick up starts from 1:30pm, if your hotel is near riverfront, pick up time will be between 1:30pm - 1:45pm, if your hotel is a bit far away from riverside, pick up time will be between 1:45pm - 2:30pm
- Please come down to the reception area at lease 10 minutes in advance for pick up and inform the reception that you are waiting for pick up, because our tour assistant will go to ask the reception first. Please do not stay in your room or in the hotel restaurant.
- Pick up might be delayed due to traffic condition and special events. The duration of transfers is approximate.
- Audio guides at Prison S21 and Killing Fields are optional. Audio guide at Prison S21 is $5, available in 15 languages. Audio guide at Killing Fields is $3.
- Our visit time assigned at the Prison is about 1 hour and 15 minutes. So you are suggested to take the highlight tour if you purchase the audio guide. Highlight Audio Tour is about 50 minutes. Please follow the numbers printed in RED on the guide map. Extensive audio guide is about 2 hours long and is not suitable for half day tour.
- If you decide to take the audio guide at Prison S21, you are advised to start straight away and keep moving. If you stay at some interested points too long, you might run out of time to finish the audio guide. Please do not take the long version which is about 2 hours. This half day tour is not designed to the long audio tour. If you really like to study Khmer Rouge and want to spend more time at museum, you are advised to take your own private tour. Besides taking the short version, you are advised to use in-house live guide service (depending on availability of guides)
- Entry fees not included, please prepare small money notes for entrance fees and audio tours.
- Please note that our tour assistant is not a tour guide, but he will be on hand to help you out during the tour.