Cambodia Wonders: 6 Days in Phnom Penh & Siem Reap

Pick up from the airport transfer to the hotel check in. Afternoon, visit the Royal Palace which 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. Continued 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

Accommodation: In Phnom Penh

Meals: Dinner

After breakfast, visit the Royal Palace which 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. Continued 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. 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 the hotel. Optional: Visit Naga World Casino. Overnight in Phnom Penh

Accommodation: In Phnom Penh

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Breakfast at the hotel: Transfer to the bus station to embark on your 5 hours journey to Siem Reap. Upon arrival, pick up and transfer to the hotel check in. Lunch at a 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.  

Accommodation: In Siem Reap

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

After breakfast, visit The South Gate of Angkor Thom: Bayon Temple, The Royal Enclosure, Phimeanakas, Elephant and Leper King Terrace. Continue to visit Ta Prohm (the jungle temple). After lunch, visit Thommanan, Chaosay Tevoda, Ta Keo: small, attractive temples in very good condition, built all at 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 of the Tonle Sap and Angkor Wat. 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 reasons.

Accommodation: In Siem Reap

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

After breakfast – Drive to Kulen National Park of Kulen Mountain, the Khmer Empire’s capital in the early 9th century. Here we will visit countless ancient temples, the River of 1000 Lingas, a reclining Buddha and cascading waterfall, where you can rinse your sin and unpleasant deeds with holy water. Return to the town for your late lunch. Afternoon, visit Pouk district about 15 Km in the West of Siem Reap town you visit the silk farm, a fascinating farm/workshop where you can see the entire silk creation process including growing the food for the silk worms, breeding the worms, silk extraction and refinement, traditional kit dying pattern creation and looming. Retail silk and souvenir shop. On the way back, visit the Western Baray (Baray Occidental) measuring 8 km by 2.3 km which provided water for the intensive cultivation of lands around Angkor. Overnight in Siem Reap.

Accommodation: In Siem Reap

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Accommodation: In Siem Reap

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

This morning, free at own leisure until assemble time transfer to Airport your flight back

Accommodation: Check out time is at 12:00

Meals: Breakfast