Cambodia Authentic 14 days
Day 01: Siemreap arrival (D)
Day 02: Siemreap - Exploration (B.L)
Day 03: Siemreap - Exploration (B.L)
Day 04: Siemreap - Responsible day (B.D)
Day 05: Siemreap - Banteay Chhmar (B.L.D)
Day 06: Banteau Chhmar - Battambang (B.L)
Day 07: Battambang - Exploration (B.L)
Day 08: Battambang - Phnompenh (B.L)
Day 09: Phnompenh - Exploration (B.L)
Day 10: Phnompenh - Ta Tai (Koh Kong) (B)
Day 11: Ta Tai exploration (B)
Day 12: Ta Tai exploration (B)
Day 13: Ta Tai - Phnompenh (B)
Day 14: Phnompenh - Departure (B)
| Day 01: Siemreap arrival Arrive in Siem Reap, welcomed by our guide and transferred to hotel. Free at leisure or free walking to discover Siemreap town. Dinner on your own and overnight at hotel in Siemreap. |
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| Day 02: Siemreap - Exploration (B.L) Early morning we start witness sunrise over Angkor Wat temple and listening singing birds over the ancient land of Angkor area. We walk to nearby Pagoda and offering food to monks. Spend your own time talk to the monk and nuns to exchange the culture or relieve. We return to hotel for breakfast. + Banteay Srei: nearly everyone’s favorite site. The special charm of this temple lies in its compact size, remarkable state of preservation, and the excellence of it decorative carving + Banteay Samre: Its rose-colored sandstone walls are decorated with carvings and bas-reliefs, which are among the most accomplished Angkor has to offer. + We continue to visit the fabulous Ta Prohm embraced by the roots of enormous fig trees and gigatic creepers + Prasat Kravan – With its unique brick sculptures + Srah Srang – The Royal Baths” was once used for ritual bathing + Banteay Kdei – Surrounded by four concentric walls + Thommanon and Chaosay Tevorda temple |
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| Day 03: Siemreap - Exploration (B.L) We start on our bike and cycle (45 minutes for cycling) to world heritage areas on the roads less traveled. Ride among the jungle passing local village and local shop. It’s a very special and acting day as you will explore some of Angkor’s most beautiful temples. You will visit the West Gate of Angkor Thom – undiscovered by mass tourist. + The ancient capital of Angkor Thom (12th century) + See the South Gate, Bayon Temple – unique for its 54 towers decorated with over 200 smiling faces of Avolokitesvara + Baphuon temple lying just to the north of Bayon a pyramidal representation of mythical Mont Meru + The Royal Enclosure, Phimeanakas + The Elephant Terrace and the Terrace of the Leper King The tour start with the visiting to the famous temple: Angkor Wat. Angkor Wat is a 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, visit Bakheng Temple and enjoy a romantic sun set view form Bakheng hill. Dinner on your own and overnight at hotel in Siem Reap. |
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| Day 04: Siemreap - Responsible day (B.D) We will have a responsible day with visits to a local village. Your ideal travel is not only for leisure, but also helps them with sustainable incomes and gives them the real helpful aid. We will meet the friendly host family, study their life structure then help them to complete their daily tasks from simple thing of cleaning to the hard work with cultivation in rice field, rice sorting and rice husking. We head to the local school, where children are willing to practice English with you. We stop at a pagoda to see the interesting insight into Buddhism in Cambodia and with Khmer people. We take a bull cart to go around the villages, rice field and lines of palm trees before boarding a boat in Tonlesap, the biggest fresh-water lake in South East Asia. Enjoy the bustling life of local people in floating villages with floating schools, floating restaurants, and even floating hospitals. Continuing to Puok District to visit the National Silk Center, a fascinating way to learn about Cambodian's silk. Here we will spend some time and witness start-to-finish silk creation, growing and harvesting mulberry and the breeding process and the life cycle of the silk worm. Farewell Dinner Khmer – Spectacle of dancing Apsara at local restaurant and overnight at hotel in Siem Reap. |
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| Day 05: Siemreap - Banteay Chhmar (B.L.D) Morning we depart for Banteay Chhmar via Sisophone. Warmly welcomed by local community, after introduced to your local home-stay we will have lunch at community. After a moment of relaxing a Community guide will lead you to Banteay Chhmar temple. Clambering over piles of stones and in between large shady trees, you will discover the remains of fallen towers and walls. Oxcart ride Banteay Chhmar The western enclosing wall still has the remains of intricate carvings including scenes of daily life during the Angkorian period, and the spectacular 32 armed god Avalokiteshvara. This is a peaceful temple and having it to you as the sun sets across the Baray is a most memorable experience. Local Khmer dinner will be served by torch light in the grounds of the temple – a unique experience! Enjoying dinner together with the local community is the perfect opportunity to discuss village life in Cambodia. As the night wears on you will return to your home-stay and fall asleep to the sounds of the countryside. |
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| Day 06: Banteau Chhmar - Battambang (B.L) This morning you will awaken to delightful views of rural Cambodia and rice paddies stretching off into the distance. If you wish you can return to the temple and bask in the solitude of a lonely temple sunrise. After a local breakfast there is the opportunity to learn more about village life as you experience an oxcart ride and visit the rice fields, drop-in on the village bee-keeper, stroll around the grounds of the village pagoda, and visit a local organization that is helping to revive the silk weaving industry. Depending on the time of year you may also wish to assist your host family with their farm activities. Picnic lunch will be provided on spot. Before traveling too far you will stop off at Banteay Top, another wonderful and remote the ancient temple. We depart Banteay Chhmar for Battambang. Battambang is Cambodia’s second largest city, situated on the banks of the Stung Sangker River and possesses some of the grandest and best preserved colonial architecture. This is also a wonderful place to see Cambodia’s rural way of life in the surrounding traditional farmed countryside. |
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| Day 07: Battambang - Exploration (B.L) This morning we explore Battambang’s countryside, a real taste of the natural beauty and traditional lifestyle common in rural Cambodia. Drive through the countryside to visit cottage industries like rice paper production, weaving centers and even a fish paste factory. We visit a local family graph farm, Cambodia’s first vineyard – Prasat Phnom Banan Vineyard – you can pop in if you like, learn about producing wine in the tropics and of course enjoy a spot of wine tasting! A few kilometers further South you arrive at the well preserved 11th century mountaintop Angkorian temple of Phnom Banan. After climbing the 350 steps you are treated to a wonderfully peaceful setting with superb views across the surrounding countryside, with small villages dotting the endless rice paddies, punctuated with the characteristic sugar palm trees – a wonderful sunset location… We drive to the Bamboo Railway Station. The Bamboo Train has been set up by the villagers to facilitate the transportation of goods and people. The train in itself is very basic – one platform on 4 wheels activated by a small motor. Sitting on the platform we travel the 8km to the next station through beautiful landscape and rice paddies. On arrival, we visit a village and discover the daily life of the Cambodian countryside. On the way back we will stop at the NGO Phare Ponleu Selpak where we will enjoy a circus performance by children from poor and disabled families. Overnight at hotel in Battambang. |
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| Day 08: Battambang - Phnompenh (B.L) Morning departure in a south-east direction, first stop at Kompong Chhnang, taking the time to stop at a pottery village before continuing further north to Pursat Province, famous for its marble stone carvings, continue to Kompong Loung to visit the village of goldsmiths along the Tonle Sap, manufacturing souvenir center stopping, and stop at Phnom Oudong, the ancient Cambodian capital during the latter stages of the Khmer Empire and crowning site of many past kings. Consisting of a series of stupas atop a large hill, there are outstanding views across the surrounding plains below. Phnom Oudong was bombed and desecrated by the Americans and then the Khmer Rouge, but still possesses a beauty that no war has been able to steal from it. Overnight at hotel in Phnom Penh. |
| Day 09: Phnompenh - Exploration (B.L) Our cyclo tour gives us a different perspective on the streets and sights of the city. We start at Wat Phnom, iconic symbol of Phnom Penh, before heading past the National Library and Hotel Le Royal. We pass the train station before winding our way down to Psar Thmei, and the elegant riverfront. We pass the glittering Royal Palace Compound. Firstly, visit to the Royal Palace compound build in 1866 by the Predecessors of King Norodom, is the most conspicuous feature and also one of impressive colorful Khmer-style Palaces. Nearside the Royal Palace is Silver Pagoda (The Emerald Buddha temple), display plenty of Buddha Statues that were decorated and made by diamond, emerald, gold and silver. Travelers will proceed to visit Independence Monument which was constructed in 1954 after Cambodian took their country back from French colony, continuing visit to National Museum, the distinctive red building with a beautiful Khmer architecture was build since 1917 and contains more than 5000 art objects made of sandstone, bronze, silver, copper, wood and others. Visit Wat Phnom Daun Penh – the name of a pagoda, was built by lady Daun Penh in 1372 on a little hill, Legend has it that after a particularly heavy flood, a wealthy Khmer woman named Daun Penh found a tree on the banks of the Mekong with four statues of Buddha hidden inside. Today Wat Phnom remains the highest artificial hill in Phnom Penh and the center of many forms of leisure activity.
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| Day 10: Phnompenh - Ta Tai (Koh Kong) (B) Breakfast at hotel, in the morning departure to Koh Kong by overland without guide and take 4h30hours on National road No4 + 71, visit local village and nice view of mountain. Arrive 3rd bridge (Trapueng Rung), you will take boat to your lodge. You will be free after check in at your hotel. |
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| Day 11: Ta Tai exploration (B) Away from the tranquility of 4 Rivers Floating Lodge, the thunder of the majestic Tatai Falls reveals the river’s true power as it drops 6 meters to the rocks below. Your day, depending on the tide, starts at either 9am or 10am for the 45-minute boat ride past Tatai village to the falls. Turning on to a tributary you head into the heart of the Cardamom jungle to the far-off sounds of exotic birds and its secretive wildlife. Within minutes you are at journey’s end, gazing down into the turbulent waters of the falls. Soon it’s time for lunch, maybe a few moments hydro-massage and a refreshing drink as you find some shade for a picnic and open your senses to the sights and sounds of the jungle. |
| Day 12: Ta Tai exploration (B) Journey with us into the home of a diverse population of natural wonders. On board our larger boat you and our kayaks are taken downstream to one of the many channels that lead into the mysterious world of the mangroves. There you will experience the wonder of the wild and perhaps even catch a glimpse of the rare and beautiful creatures that live in the protected Cardamom wilderness. |
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| Day 13: Ta Tai - Phnompenh (B) Free at your own time at the lodge until transfer back to Phnom Penh. Arrive at Phnom Penh transfer directly to your hotel. You will stay overnight at hotel in Phnom Penh. |
| Day 14: Phnompenh - Departure (B) Free until transfer to Phnom Penh airport for departure to next destination. Say goodbye to your Cambodian guide and driver. Goodbye Cambodia!!!! |
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