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Apsara Arts Association
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A local non-governmental organization created in 1998 to both keep traditional culture alive and offer a chance to the kids of one of poorest Phnom Penh areas. A visit here is a great help, and the opportunity to understand the work and effort needed to become a legendary Apsara dancer. Tonlé Sap Cruise
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An hour boat ride on the branch of mighty Mekong River River to watch the daily live of the people living on and around it. Admire sunset, a privileged time when the water is all shining of gold under the declining rays.Central Market
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Phsar Thom Thmei ("The New Market") erected in Art Deco in 1930 is a Phnom Penh landmark. Its central yellow dome sprouting four wings is chockfull of stalls selling clothing, shoes, bags, cosmetics, stationery, and souvenirs. A good place for seeking clothes of all kind, Buddha images, bronze ware, ceramic ware, cottons, folk handicrafts, jewellery, Khmer silks, pewter ware, pottery, precious stones, silver ware, wooden carvings, and classic musical instruments.Russian Market
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Tuol Tom Poung Market (“Russian Market”) is one of the best places to buy clothes at a very discounted price (and test your bargaining skills, by the same time). This is also the best place for antiques (genuine and fake ones), bronze ware, ceramic ware, jewelry, Khmer silks, etc. The Cambodian hand woven silk and silversmith expertise date from the 11th century.Sorya Market
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A big supermarket, to discover what turns young Cambodian generations on… Shopping centre, cinemas, skate park, massage parlours, all together inside a massive 6 floors building. Independence Monument
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Erected in 1955, the Independence Monument symbolizes Cambodian Independence regained from French colonialism in 1953. This monument is a copy of Bakong temple (the group of Roluos in the 9th century). Tuol Sleng Genocidal Museum
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In 1975 this school became the torturing place for thousands of Cambodian people (named “S21” during the Pol Pot regime), who were merciless tortured to death in different ways. Nowadays the Toul Sleng museum displays the evidences of atrocities committed, with impressive pictures of victims and original relics. A visit here is a light thrown on the darkest page of khmer people history.mer.National Musem
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Housed in a terra-cotta-roofed building of traditional Cambodian design, which was built between 1917 and 1920. Inside, one of the world's largest collections of Khmer art, including sculpture, ceramics, bronzes, and ethnographic objects. Over 14,000 items, from prehistoric times to periods before, during, and after the Khmer Empire. The most important section is the sculptures one: predominantly made of sandstone, they date from both the Angkorian and pre-Angkorian eras. ONG Pour un Sourire d’Enfant
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Another NGO, founded in 1993 by a French couple to help « garbage kids » out of misery. Today, many classes provide education and training to young khmers. The NGO also runs a restaurant in the city centre, employing students both in the kitchen and as waiters.Royal Palace & Silver Pagoda
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Built by King Norodom in 1866 on the banks of the Mekong River. There are many prasats (temples) inside the palace and one of them is called is commonly referred to as “Wat Preah Keo”, or Temple of the Emerald Buddha - better known as Silver Pagoda. The floor of is covered by 5,329 tiles of pure silver, each weighting 1.125 Kg. In the centre of the pagoda there is a magnificent 17th-century emerald Buddha statue made of baccarat crystal. The palace is only partially opne to visitors, as still inhabited by the Royal Family..Sisowat Quay
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Certainly the most attractive promenade in Phnom Penh, running along the banks of the Mekong and Tonle Sap. The built-up side of the street is home to cafés and shops and the better class of bar, and is popular with tourists and expat Westerners prepared to run its gauntlet of touts selling drugs, girls and tuk tuk rides. The esplanade along the river is equally popular with Cambodians, who come here in the cool of the evening to enjoy the quasi-carnival atmosphere. It begins at the Royal Palace (or rather, at the river-front park opposite the Palace), and is perhaps best experienced in the early evening. SPA
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Need of massage, relax, treatment after long trip or ups and down Angkor temple. Just step inside one of many centres of the capital city. In some of them, massage is providing by blind people, with astonishing results. Olympic Stadium
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Built in the 1960s for Asian Games that never happened, this interesting complex in the Modern style has been sold off to the Taiwanese, in a murky deal by the Cambodian government. The new owners have not kept to pledges to renovate it, thus it remains a shabby shadow of its former self. However in the evenings a walk around the top perimeter is worthwhile: you can see hundreds khmers attending exercise and dance classes, and get a view of the abandoned track below.Wat Ounalom
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At the corner between Sisowath Quay and Street 154. Completely destroyed by Khmers Rouges, this huge 15th century monastery has been totally rebuilt and is now home to the “sangha”, the Buddhist community in Cambodia. Concrete has regretfully replaced stones, but many people gather there just the same.Wat Phnom
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Built on a small mound in the north of the city not far from the banks of the Sap River, it is the symbol of the city. A legend says that a woman called Penh found some Buddha figures washed up by the bank of the Sap River. Being both rich and pious, she had a temple constructed to house them on top of a nearby hill – hence 'Phnom Penh" or "the Hill of Penh'. There are some interesting murals from the Reamker – the Khmer verson of the Indian Ramayana and in a small pavilion to the south is statue of Ms. Penh, the temple's founder.
