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ANGKOR WAT, THE AMAZING WORLD HERITAGE THE AMAZING BUDDHIST TEMPLE OF BAYON IN ANGKOR THOM EXPLORE THE GREAT LAKE OF TONLE SAP EXPERIENCE LOCAL TRANSPORTATION OXEN CART RIDE THROUGH THE VILLAGE WAY OF LIFE OF PEOPLE IN THE BIGGEST LAKE OF SOUTHEAST ASIA

Seven Days Tour - Cambodia, Phnom Penh & Siem Reap Angkor Wat

 

Day 1: Fly from Bangkok/Vietnam to Phnom Penh, Cambodia

 

If you fly from Bangkok/Vietnam to Cambodia, arriving in the afternoon, we’ll transfer to your hotel for checking in. Then you will visit the Khmer artwork at the National Museum which shows you many very beautiful Khmer artifacts that were collected from the other places all over Cambodia, especially from Angkor Wat for save keeping in this Museum. After the tour we will drive you to the river front where you can have dinner at the local restaurant (on own account)

 

Day 2: Explore Phnom PenhRoyal Palace, Genocide Tuol Sleng Museum & Killing Field

 

Today in the morning you we will visit the Royal Palace, you will learn about the brutal Pol Pot of Khmer Rouge regime by visiting a genocide prison museum, Russian Market and then lunch at the local restaurant. After lunch we will continue to the Killing Fields Memorial where many thousands of victims were killed after the questioning.

 

Day 3: Phnom Penh to Siem Reap by overland

 

We will travel overland through Kampong Thom Province, stopping en route at Skoun district for the happy house and over there you will see the local people selling all type of fruits and typical food for the travelers who pass by (Pineapples, Grapefruits, as well as cashew nuts, tarantulas, crickets, frogs and beattle bugs) etc, a stone carving village, then continue for lunch at Prey Pros restaurant of Kampong Thom Province. After arriving in Siem Reap this afternoon we will drive you around for city tour and then check in at your hotel. Dinner on own.

 

Day 4: Cruise Tonle Sap Lake, Banteay Srei temple

 

After breakfast, this morning we’ll venture out into the Cambodian countryside to experience the country’s everyday life and recent history. We’ll stop to visit the basket weaving village of Krabei Riel, you'll experience the water buffalo cart ride through rice field and then depart for a boat ride to the Floating Village on Tonle Sap Lake. This gives us a chance to glimpse a bit of the life of Cambodia’s river people. Floating fishing villages sprawl across the lakefront and everything is gliding by on the water, thatched-roof houses on wooden poles. Commerce goes on all across the water, women selling fruits and vegetables from a sampan, a skiff full of firewood, and fishermen selling their catch. The people who live on the water have tied their lives to the lake’s cycles, and are constantly on the move as the water level rises or recedes throughout the year.

Tonle Sap means fresh water sea, and indeed this is one of the world’s geographical wonders as well as the largest freshwater lake in Southeast Asia. When the rains begin here in June and July, the Mekong River begins to rise, but instead of flooding its own banks it begins to push the waters of the Tonle Sap at Phnom Penh northward, reversing the river’s flow. The waters of the Tonle Sap River then flood the lake, increasing its size tenfold and flooding the surrounding forests and fields, leaving behind fertile silt for rice cultivation. In October, after the monsoon season has passed, the lake drains and the river returns to its southern flow. If you are a birder, this is a world-renowned habitat for shorebirds. Return to town for lunch on own

 

After lunch, this afternoon you’ll visit to Banteay Srei, one of the oldest and most beautifully preserved temple sites in Cambodia. Built in 967 AD, Banteay Srei means “Citadel of Women,” and it is recognized as a tribute to the beauty of women. The structures here have been carved in painstaking detail out of pink sandstone. Amazingly, the detail is as intricate as a woven tapestry, a testament to the craft of the original artisans and to the devoted conservation of generations of Cambodians to this site, set like a gem in a seemingly enchanted forest, about 20 miles from Angkor, it is famous for its delicate carvings, wonderful state of preservation and small size in relation to the other Angkor temples. This tour also includes a visit to a village that produces palm sugar, an ingredient used widely in Southeast Asian cooking. We’ll meet the farmers who harvest this natural sweetener and have the chance to participate in part of the process of making it. Then we continue to Pre Rup Temple and lunch at the local restaurant.

 

Day 5: Explore Angkor, Watch sunset from Angkor

 

After breakfast your local guide takes you into the heart of ancient Angkor, a holy city that took centuries to build and whose scale is still breathtaking today—it sprawls across an area of roughly six by sixteen miles. The Khmer aristocrats who built the temples and monuments here between AD 800-1200 were motivated by their Hindu and Buddhist beliefs.

 

You’ll begin at the South Gate of Angkor Thom, the capital city of Khmer rulers. You’ll see both Bayon and Ta Prohm, and make brief stops at Baphoun and the Elephants Terrace, where amazing bas-reliefs depict the huge beasts almost life-size. At the nearby Terrace of the Leper King, equally intricate wall carvings depict rank after rank of court attendants to mystical rulers. You conclude your explorations of Angkor’s most notable features with a tour of the Ta Prohm Temple.    

Afterward, you will return to the hotel and lunch own

 

Later, you’ll visit Angkor Wat (whose name means simply “City of temple”) and wait for the sunset, the most opportune moment for seeing this masterpiece of Khmer architecture. Angkor Wat is a large pyramid temple, built between AD 1113 and 1150, surrounded by a great moat 570 feet wide. Note the bas-relief carving throughout the temple. Who knows what you might feel as you stand in the courtyard of this temple whose towers represent Mount Meru, the center of the universe. Tonight is dinner on own at a local restaurant. Overnight at your hotel

 

Day 6: Explore temples – Rolous group and grand circuit

 

Breakfast at your hotel, you’ll visit the temple complex of Rolous group – Preah Ko, Bakong, Lo Lei, which was build in the early of nine century in bricks, sand stones, laterites stone and stucco for dedicated to the Hindu gods. Then continue to Prasat Krovan and Banteay Kdei Temples before lunch at local restaurant. After lunch we’ll visit to the temple of Preah Khan, was built by King Jayavarman VII in the late twelve century for dedicated to his farther and also served as the Buddhist temple and University in that period, visit Neak Poan which was served as the Public hospital for all people wash the sin away, Easter Mebon temple in the middle of Yasotatada reservoir that you will see the best preserved of elephant status still standing and then continue to Pre Rup temple for watching sunset view and the surrounding area. Return to your hotel and dinner on own

 

Day 7: Siem Reap/Home via Bangkok, Thailand or Saigon, Vietnam

 

After breakfast free at leisure we’ll depart to the airport for our flight to Bangkok by PG or to Saigon by VN

 

Please note: This itinerary can be re-adjusted base on your Arrival or Departure Flight schedule or your request.