Tour Highlights:
Upon arrival at the airport, our guide and driver are waiting you at the exit gate to warm
welcome. Then transfer to hotel check in. Overnight in Siem Reap.
– 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 10th
century,
– 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 and
covers an area of 200 hectares and surrounded by moat and an exterior wall measuring 1300
meters x 1500 meters.
– Overnight in Siem Reap.
– 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 1h 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 take short walk along the road in front of the King’s Residence to see the Main
Shrine, where the local people usually worship, with its statue of Yeay Tep, Preah Ang Chekand Preah Ang Chorm. Buying jasmine and lotus flowers to worship is very important for the
Cambodians.
– We continue to one of the city’s lively open markets, Psar Chars, also called the “Old
Market”, where anything and everything is for sale.
– Overnight in Siem Reap.
– Breakfast at the hotel – 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 Pluk. We visit an island pagoda, a school and
traditional stilt houses to interact with the local families.
– Then transfer to airport – the end of service (Wish you enjoy back home)
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