Siem Reap was only a village when the first French explorers in the 19th century rediscovered Angkor. With the transition of Angkor under the jurisdiction of the French in 1907, Siem Reap began to grow in the first wave of tourism. The Grand Hotel d’Angkor opened its doors in 1929, and the temples of Angkor remained one of the leading Asian sights until the late 1960s. In 1975 the population of Siem Reap (and other cities in Cambodia) was evicted by the Khmer Rouge into the countryside.
Because of the long civil war the city was in decline and slowly began to recover as a tourist center until the mid-1990s. Today, Siem Reap is undoubtedly Cambodia’s fastest growing city and serves as a small charming prelude to examination of Angkor temple complexes. Thanks to Siem Reap, Angkor has become a bustling tourist center with modern hotels and architectures. Despite strong international influence, Siem Reap and its people have retained much of the traditional appearance of the city and culture.
The Tuol Sleng Museum is an important part of the history of Khemr Rouge and can be an excellent tourist spot due to its historical significance. It is a former high school located in Phnom Penh was converted by the Khmer Rouge to a center of detention, torture and execution between 1975 and 1979. The school was secretly named as Security Prison 21 or S-21. Currently this school can be visited. It contains, besides the almost complete remains of buildings of torture and imprisonment, many objects of torture and interesting archives. It is also possible to watch a movie, the story of Hout Bophana. The Khmer Rouge S-21 enclosed all opponents to the regime, for any reason. Both young and older people were trapped. There were women, children, and sometimes entire families (including infants) of workers, of intellectuals, of ministers and diplomats in Cambodia, but also foreigners (Indians, Pakistanis, British, Americans, Canadians, Australians) The simple act of wearing glasses (including children) was sufficient to be considered intellectual and therefore the people were exterminated (Bowra, 1995).
暹粒只是一个村庄时，在第十九世纪前法国探险家发现了吴哥。随着1907法国管辖下的吴哥暹粒的过渡，开始在旅游的第一个波长。吴哥豪华大酒店开业于1929，和吴哥寺庙仍然是主导亚洲的景象直到20世纪60年代末。1975的人口从暹粒（和柬埔寨的其他城市）被驱逐的红色高棉到农村。
由于长期的内战的城市在下降，开始缓慢恢复作为一个旅游中心，直到上世纪90年代中期。今天，暹粒无疑是柬埔寨发展最快的城市，作为一个小迷人的前奏的吴哥寺的配合物的检查。在暹粒，吴哥已成为一个具有现代旅馆和架构，熙熙攘攘的游客中心。尽管有强大的国际影响力，暹粒和人多的城市和文化传统的外观保留。
Tuol Sleng博物馆是khemr高棉的历史的一个重要组成部分，可以成为一个很好的旅游景点，由于其历史意义。这是一个前中学位于金边转化的红色高棉的拘留中心，1975和1979之间的酷刑和死刑。学校被秘密地命名为安全21或S-21监狱。目前该校可以访问。它包含，除了折磨和监禁的建筑几乎完全是，许多对象的酷刑和有趣的档案。它也可以看电影，Hout bophana故事。红色高棉政权S-21封闭所有对手，以任何理由。年轻人和老年人被困。有妇女，儿童，甚至整个家庭（包括新生儿）的工人，知识分子，在柬埔寨部长和外交官，而且外国人（印度人，巴基斯坦人，英国人，美国人，加拿大人，澳大利亚人）戴眼镜的简单的行为（包括儿童）已被认为是知识，因此人灭绝（鲍勒Bower的变体，1995）。
