Khmer Architecture Tours

what you can experience

• Take a cyclo, walking or bus tour with us or do your own tour by downloading a map from our website (www.ka-tours.org).

• Broaden your understanding of urban space and development by visiting interesting buildings, which stand as a testimony of public and private life before and after Cambodia’s independence.

• With support from our guides, become familiar with the facts, stories and architectural details of buildings and city planning.

• Get an idea of Phnom Penh’s architectural fusion – from colonial to modern, post-independence – by relaxing in a cyclo as you’re transported, in tempo, through Phnom Penh’s central districts, a time travel through the city’s architectural periods.

• Envision how Cambodian architects reinterpreted ‘international’ modernism during the 1950s and 60s in their own culture and forms.

• Below are some of the architectural wonders you will visit in our tour.
• Find yourself standing under a 25-meter high giant concrete umbrella, spanning 34 meters above your head, in the indoor stadium and part of the National Sports Complex.

• Enjoy a remarkable play of light and geometry and the breeze of fresh air thanks to natural ventilation in the foyer at the National Theatre.

• Walk through an enormous university campus containing three universities, embodying the architectural visions of three different architecture teams.