These are some photos from the cyclo tour I took in Phnom Penh in March 08 – the tour was organised by www.ka-tours.org – it ran on Sunday mornings. See the website for details – as of 2014 they are still operating. They organise architecture tours of the city, mostly visiting Modernist buildings produced by Khmer architects around/after independence, but this tour took in colonial and Chinese-diaspora buildings.
The tour was conducted by a very knowledgeable and enthusiastic architecture student from the city. As you can see, he took us to places you would never know were there, or alternatively, buildings you might walk past without noticing. Recommended.
I have created a Google Map with the locations visited and linked back to here. (Just follow the links on the names of the buildings.) I wasn’t taking notes as we went around, so the info here is from my own (fallible) memory and the handout map from the tour. The locations of some of the buildings are approximate – I’ve noted which ones. Let me know if you can give a better position for the map.
In the background, the former Central Police Station/Commissariat (now boarded up for development)
This building used to be the Grand Hotel – it has now been partitioned into flats, and there is a restaurant on the ground floor on the corner.
