Start of the visit of the Cambodian capital with a stop at the complex of the Royal Palace and the Silver Pagoda, so named for the more than five thousand silver tiles from which the floor is made, all embellished with gifts offered to the royal family from around the world .
We will then visit the National Museum, built around 1918 and completely dedicated to Khmer art: there are beautiful exhibits of both Angkorian and pre-Angkorian, including an important statuary from the same Angkor and several objects of daily use found in various areas and historical periods.
Continuation to Toul Sleng, tragic prison museum, testimony of the bloody Khmer Rouge regime and the genocide perpetrated against the Cambodian population, guilty of being able to read and write, wear glasses, be teachers, doctors, professionals, speak foreign languages: it is estimated that about three million people out of twelve have been tortured and killed over a period of four years until 1979.
