Top Things To Do In Phnom Penh

Standing at a crossroads of advice, if you still have no idea what to do and what to see in Phnom Penh, then here we give you clearly the things that you should not miss since it would be the experience of a lifetime!

1. Biking around Phnom Penh

A Phnom Penh cycling day tour offers a great perspective of life in the countryside and around Phnom Penh City. In addition to all bike cycling packages available, there are also special packages available for multiple-day trips that will get you cycling between Siem Reap and Phnom Penh or simply biking around Cambodia for a few days.

Biking Tour around Phnom Penh

Biking tour around Phnom Penh City

2. Sightseeing in Phnom Penh

Phnom Penh offers beautiful and historical architecture and attractions such as the Royal Palace, vintage colonial buildings, and Khmer temples. Tourists can join in a half-day city tour to visit the Royal Palace Complex and Silver Pagoda, National Museum, and Wat Phnom; or take a full-day tour which offers more sites: Toul Sleng Museum, Choeung Ek Killing Field, Independence Monument, and the Central Market.

Visit Royal Palace in Phnom Penh

Royal Palace

3. Watching the local show 

Cambodian Living Arts (G9, Sothearos Boulevard) perform slick hour-long shows of traditional drama, opera, and Apsara dancing at the National Museum.

Cambodia Live dance

Cambodian live art

Sovanna Phum (No. 166, Street 99) puts on wonderful one-hour shadow puppet shows accompanied by a live Khmer orchestra.

Shadow pupet show in Phnom Penh

Shadow puppet show

4. Shopping in Phnom Penh

Shopping choices in Phnom Penh are quite diverse, and you can find almost anything you want or need to buy. There are three main local markets and many other smaller local markets scattered throughout the city. Russian Market, Central Market, and the night market on the riverfront are the most popular destinations for tourists. In addition to the traditional local markets where people buy everything needed for daily life, there are now several shopping malls, supermarkets, mini-marts, souvenir shops, boutique shops, art galleries, and shops and stores of every size and description.

Shopping center in Phnom Penh

Shopping center in Phnom Penh

5. Drinking

As Phnom Penh has a large ex-pat community, there are plenty of bars scattered around Phnom Penh. Most of them have happy hours where a glass of ice-cold Angkor beer usually costs you 0,75 dollars, and a cocktail for 2 dollars. Most bars are down the riverfront. If you prefer drinking with the locals, you can try out one of the plentiful Khmer beer gardens where a bottle of beer will cost you around 1,5 dollars. Be prepared for some karaoke, though.

Relaxing bar in Phnom Penh

Relaxing bar

6. Taste Phnom Penh street food

Cambodia has a rich street food tradition, no surprise that street food is very popular in Phnom Penh. Take a tuk-tuk or cyclo food tour, you will be enticed to join the locals sitting in the makeshift restaurants along the streets enjoying their favorite street foods. You will be able to sample an exciting array of delicious Khmer dishes, street food, and snacks such as borbor, or kuy teav, as well as exotic tropical fruits, special dessert etc.

Phnom Penh Street food

Street food

And where can you find the tours in Phnom Penh? Anywhere! Or you even can do it yourself with no sweat! So, what do you think about the colorful life of Phnom Penh? Are you ready to put this city on your must-go list and start the journey to a new land? Let us know if you earn new experiences so we can be exciting as we are!

 

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