The bucket-list things to do — and who runs each one.
Here’s the bucket list for your day ashore: the most extraordinary thing to do at each stop, who runs it, and how to book it direct — so you can weigh it against your ship’s excursion and pick what suits you.
In port at Phnom Penh, the bucket-list move is Killing Fields & S-21: Private Expert-Led Dark History Tour. Below: 2 bucket-list things to do on a Phnom Penh port day — worth weighing against whatever your ship offers.
Walk the haunting grounds of Choeung Ek Killing Fields and the S-21 Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum with a private, licensed Khmer historian. This is the most emotionally profound, essential experience in all of Cambodia — impossible to fully grasp without expert narration.
Book itPrivate Half Day To Killing Field & S21 Genocidal Museum in Phnom Penh$130 per person
Step inside Cambodia's glittering seat of royal power — the Royal Palace complex and its dazzling Silver Pagoda, home to a solid-gold Buddha encrusted with 9,584 diamonds. A private guide transforms this iconic landmark into a genuine royal encounter.
Book itA Full Day Tour for Royal Palace S21 Killing Fields and More$35 per person
Unlock the world's finest collection of Khmer sculpture and antiquities — including originals from Angkor Wat — in a private session with a specialist art historian. This terracotta-red pavilion beside the Royal Palace is a treasure vault hiding in plain sight.
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Climb the hill-temple that gave Phnom Penh its name, then explore the elegant, tree-lined riverside boulevard with a private guide who reads the city's soul — from colonial French architecture to lotus sellers and saffron-robed monks.
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Step inside Phnom Penh's magnificent Art Deco dome market with a private culinary guide for a curated immersion into Khmer flavours, gemstones, silks, and street-food rituals — the city's most vibrant living canvas, decoded just for you.
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Your day in Phnom PenhNothing picked yet — tick what you fancy
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Now plan the rest of it
You know what to do on the day. Here is the trip it belongs to —
each one opens as a whole plan, not a list: where to fly in, every port, what it runs.
