Get set for the 5-day best of Cambodia’s wonders! We’ll take you on a journey through Cambodia’s stunning temples like Angkor Wat of Siem Reap and the bustling city of Phnom Penh. This trip is well designed including history, culture and incredible insights. Let’s explore!
Brief Itinerary:
DAY 01: PHNOM PENH ARRIVAL (D)
DAY 02: PHNOM PENH (B/L/D)
DAY 03: PHNOM PENH – SIEM REAP (B/L/D)
DAY 04: SIEM REAP (B/L/D)
DAY 05: SIEM REAP - DEPATURE (B)
Detailed Itinerary:
DAY 01: PHNOM PENH ARRIVAL (D)
Pick up from the airport transfer to the hotel check in. Afternoon, visit to Royal Palace is a royal residence now where His Majesty, the King of Cambodia, and the royal families live. It is like a small town of royal dynasties. Continue to Silver Pagoda, serves less as a functioning temple than a repository for cultural treasures such as 90 kg golden Buddha encrusted with 2086 diamonds. Overnight in Phnom Penh
DAY 02: PHNOM PENH (B/L/D)
Breakfast at the hotel: Drive to visit the “Killing Fields” of Choeng Ek (15 km south of Phnom Penh). Between 1975 and 1978 about 17,000 men, women, children and infants (including nine westerners) were detained and tortured at the S-21 prison and transported to extermination camp of Choeng Ek and followed by visiting to Independence monument for photo shooting and Psa Thmey market.
Afternoon, visit Tuol Sleng Museum (S-21 prison). This former school was used as a prison by Pol Pot’s security forces. More than 17,000 people held at S-21 were taken to the extermination camp at Choeng Ek to be executed. Then Visit Russian Market (Toul Tumpong Market), the Market has gained reputation for cheap clothing, a large selection of Buddha images and woodcarvings, betel-nut boxes, silk, silver jewelry, and classic music instrument and followed by Wat Phnom Temple is one of the most important pagodas in Phnom Penh. Built in 1373 on an artificial hill by the wealthy widow Daun Chi Penh. After dinner, transfer back to hotel. Optional: Visit Naga World Casino. Overnight in Phnom Penh
DAY 03: PHNOM PENH – SIEM REAP (B/L/D)
Breakfast at the hotel: Transfer to the bus station or airport for your continued journey to Siem Reap. Upon arrival, pick up and transfer to the hotel check in. Lunch at local Indian restaurant. Afternoon, visit to Floating Village, take a ride by traditional wooden boat on Tonle Sap Lake to experience the human occupations at the edges of the lake is similarly distinctive – floating villages, towering stilled houses, huge fish traps, and an economy and way of life deeply intertwined with the lake, the fish, the wildlife and the cycles of rising and falling waters and followed by a visit Artisan D’Angkor, a handicraft centre the Handicraft center for the wood and stone carving processes if time permits. Overnight in Siem Reap
DAY 04: SIEM REAP (B/L/D)
After breakfast, visit to The South Gate of Angkor Thom: Bayob Temple, The Royal Enclosure, Phimeanaka, Elephant and Leper King Terrace. Continue visit to Ta Promh (the jungle temple. After lunch, visit to Thommanan, Chaosay Tevoda, Ta Keo: small, attractive temple in very good condition, built all the same time as Angkor Wat. Continue to Angkor Wat: The “7th Wonders’of the World”. World Heritage Site since 1992, famous for its beauty and splendor. Angkor Wat features the longest continuous bas-relief in the world, which runs along the outer gallery walls and narrates stories from Hindu mythology. Continue visit to Bakheng Hill: Sunset viewing on the top of the hill. Bakheng is the first major temple to be constructed in the Angkor area; this temple-mountain offers extraordinary views. Overnight in Siem Reap.
Special note:
As for the visit of Bakan Tower of Angkor Wat Temple itself, closed for 4 days of a month on the Theravada Buddhist Religious Calendar, visitors are required to wear decent attires with shoulders and knees properly covered (Non-revealing dress). The visitors are particularly requested to stand in queue awaiting their turns to climb up to this peak, and children under twelve year-old are not permitted to do so for their own safety reason.
DAY 05: SIEM REAP - DEPATURE (B)
Breakfast at the hotel – Free and leisure. Transfer to the airport for the flight departure
INCLUSIONS:
Private tours with Local English speaking guide
A/C transport throughout the tours and all Transfers
Entrance fee to any applicable tourist sites
Meals as indicated (B=breakfast, L= Lunch, D=dinner)
Other tours related service stated in the itinerary
Cold water and towel during the trip
Government tax & Service charge
Hotel accommodation (based on twin/double sharing room)
EXCLUSIONS:
International flight ticket
Domestic flight PNH – REP, REP – PNH and REP – KOS or Vice Versa
Visa stamps upon arrival of $30.00 per person
Compulsory Gala Dinner on 24 Dec and 31 Dec
Other meals not mentioned
Tips & personal expenses
Laundry
Other not stated above
Travel insurance
