Amazing Siem Reap Highlight Tour

Day 1: Siem Reap Arrival

Siem Reap Highlight Tour 5 days and 4 nights

– Our guide and driver will pick you up from Siem Reap airport. Then transfer to hotel check in. Overnight in Siem Reap.

Day 2: Siem Reap – Angkor Complex (B)

• –  Breakfast at hotel: Start your sightseeing tour of Angkor area, Angkor Thom, the South Gate of Angkor Thom (Great City), 3km x 3km by moat and 7m height wall.
• –  Visit Bayon temple built from the late 12th century to the early 13th century by King Jayavarman VII and consists of 54 towers, after you finished the impressive Bayon temple,
• –  Visit Baphuon temple, Hindu temple dedicated to Shiva (1050-1066AD).
• –  Visit Royal Enclosure, Phimeanakas temple, Hindu temple dedicated to Shiva in 10thcentury,
• –  Visit the Elephants Terrace and the Terrace of the Leper King.
• –  Then visit Ta Prohm (Tomb Raider) which surrounded by jungle.
• –  The end of the tour, you will visit Angkor Wat, the largest Hindu temples in the world andcovers an area of 200 hectares and surrounded by moat and an exterior wall measuring 1300meters x 1500 meters.
• –  Overnight in Siem Reap.

Day 3: Siem Reap – Banteay Srie & Grand circle (B)

• –  Breakfast at hotel and continue to visit Banteay Srei, constructed at the late 10th century by a Brahmin counselor under a power king Rajendarvarman. It was loosely translated to citadel of the woman, but it is a modern appellation that probably refers to the delicate beauty of the carvings.
• –  En-route stop at Pre Rub (turn the body), was constructed in late 10th century dedicated to Hindu gods. This reflects the common belief among Cambodians that funerals were conducted at the temple.
• –  Visit Neak Pean, a small island temple located in the middle of the last Baray, constructed by aKhmer king in the Angkor area.
• –  Visit Preah Khan temple, built by King Jayavarman VII dedicated to his father. It is a huge, highlyexportable monastic complex, and served as a Buddhist monastery and school, engaging over 1000 monks. Overnight at the hotel in Siem ReapLV TRAVEL, real life Cambodia tours Head Office: Veal Village, Sangkat Chreav, Krong Siem Reap, Siem Reap Province, Cambodia Tel: +855 12 784 969 / +855 86 669 768, Gmail: leaphealvtravel@gmail.com

Day 4: Siem Reap – Kulen Mountain & – Kompong Pluk (B)

• –  Breakfast at the hotel. Then continue to visit Kulen Mountain – Located 40km north of Angkor Wat, the Phnom Kulen mountain range provides Siem Reap with water and dominates the skyline of the flat plains surrounding it. Although the highest peak of the mountain range lies at only 487m and average 400m height, Phnom Kulen has much to offer visitors. The Cambodian people regard the site as the birthplace of the ancient Khmer Empire. King Jayavarman II claimed independence from Java there in 802 A.D. Travel in the morning by car through the countryside to Phnom Kulen and start the rather steep climb up by car half hour more. On top of the mountain you will visit a modern style pagoda that offers stunning views over the Angkor area. Visit the eight meter tall statue of a Reclining Buddha and wash your hands at the Linga statue to purify your mind and body. Continue to visit the River of One Thousand Lingas and the magnificent waterfall close to it. Take a refreshing swim in the stream and pool of the waterfall.
• –  After that, we continue to visit Tonle Sap of Kampong Pluk: This amazing floating village is built on 8 to 10 m high stilts and it is also one of natural tourisms and a mangroves for hundreds species of fresh water fishes and birds and decorated with ethnic stilted houses line over the water surface up to the air. The villages are primarily Khmer and have about 3000 inhabitants between them, most of who live in stilted houses. The people depend largely on fishing and tourism for their incomes. We embark on the traditional wooden boat through the flooded forests of the Great Tonle Sap Lake, habitat of many bird species it will bring you to Kampong Phluk. We visit an island pagoda, a school and traditional stilt houses to interact with the local families then return to hotel.

–  Overnight in Siem Reap.

Day 5: Siem Reap – Airport (B)

– Breakfast at the hotel – Free at your own leisure time until transfer to airport – the end of service