Haft Day Battambang City Tour

Overview - Haft Day Battambang City Tour

US$30-45pax

A centre for culture and the arts, Battambang felt the full wrath of the Khmer Rouge. Its residents, like those of Phnom Penh, were driven out to the countryside; many died, and anyone considered by the regime to be intellectual or artistic was targeted for execution. However, when it was liberated from the Khmer Rouge in 1979, the city of Battambang was mostly spared from damage, leaving some of Cambodia’s best-preserved architecture practically intact. The city, filled with remnants and memories of French colonialism, has retained its art deco charm, but also boasts modernist wonders from the building boom of the 1950s and 1960s, during a brief period of independence and peace. The small Battambang Museum displays ancient sculptures and carvings, mostly from the pre-Angkorian and Angkorian temples nearby.