Best Tours in Phnom Penh — 2026, Honestly Compared

Tuol Sleng and Choeung Ek with a guide is the essential, difficult half-day every visitor to Phnom Penh should do — the two Khmer Rouge sites, done quietly and at the right pace, with a guide who gives the history context that makes the visit mean something rather than just being grim.

The Royal Palace, National Museum and Wat Phnom in one guided day covers the Silver Pagoda, the best Khmer sculpture collection anywhere, and the hill the city is named after.

A street art and food tour with pickup solves the actual barrier to eating well in Cambodia — the ordering — while taking in the murals that have gone up across the city since 2015.

Street art in the afternoon, then a sunset Mekong cruise — an hour on the water where the Mekong, Tonle Sap and Bassac rivers meet, is the best way to close a day in Phnom Penh.

Kampot and Kep — pepper smallholdings under Bokor mountain, and blue swimmer crab cooked with green pepper at the Kep crab market — is the best full-day escape from the city for travellers with time to spare.

Every tour above is run by a verified local operator we've vetted directly. We deliberately left out a side-by-side price comparison against other booking platforms: several of these tours are sold on multiple platforms by the same operator, who sets their own rate — a price table there would mostly compare marketing margins, not quality.

We don't claim to be the cheapest. What we do differently is confirm every booking directly with the operator before it's treated as final, and refund in full if they can't take your date. If you'd rather browse the full catalogue yourself, see all Phnom Penh tours.