EXOTIC CAMBODIA 6DAYS

Routes: Phnom Penh - Siem Reap - Angkor Wat

Itinerary in Detail

Day 1: Arrival in Phnom Penh (Dinner included)

Our driver and tour guide will pick you up at Phnom Penh Airport and transfer to hotel for check-in. Relax in the rest of the day. Dinner at local restaurant.

Day 2: Phnom Penh City tour (Breakfast / Lunch / Dinner included)

Breakfast in hotel, prepair for full day city tour, you will visit to the Royal Palace, built by King Norodom in 1866 on the site of the old town, and the Silver Pagoda, located within the grounds of the Royal Palace, the Silver Pagoda is so named because of its floor, which is made up of 5000 silver tiles. Visit the National Museum - this is one of Phnom Penh's true architectural gems. The Museum is instantly recognizable with its warm red terracotta and its gracefully cured roof topped by dozens of guardian nagas. It was designed in Khmer style in 1917 by famed French architect Georges Groslier & Ecole Des Arts Cambodgiens. Meals on trip at local restaurant.

Day 3: Phnom Penh - Siem Reap (Breakfast / Lunch / Dinner included)

After breakfast in hotel, our guide will take you visit to the notorious Killing Fields "Choeung Ek" 15km southwest of Phnom Penh. This one is the site of brutal executions of more than 17,000 individuals, most of whom first suffered through interrogations, torture and deprivation in Toul Sleng Prison during Pol Pot regime (1975–1979), continue your visit to Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum (S21 prison). This prison was a high school, and used as a prison by Pol Pot's security forces and became the largest center for detention and torture during the rule of the Khmer Rouge.

Lunch at local restaurant, take a little rest then visit to Russian Market (Psah Tuol Thom Pong), a lively outdoor market where you will find antiquities, silver and gold jewelry, gems, silk, kramas, stone and wood carvings, as well as T-Shirts, CDs and other souvenirs until transfer for your departure flight to Siem Reap City.

In the evening, arrival in Siem Reap, transfer to hotel for check-in. Dinner at local restaurant.

Day 4: Siem Reap - Angkor Day One (Breakfast / Lunch / Dinner included)

After breakfast in hotel, visit the unique brick sculptures of Prasat Kravan, and continue to Ta Prohm. One of the area's most beautiful temples, Ta Prohm has been left relatively untouched since it was discovered and retains much of its mystery. Its appeal lies in the fact that, unlike the other monuments of Angkor, it was abandoned and swallowed by the jungle, looking very much the ways most of the Angkor temples appeared when European explorers first stumbled upon them. Visit as well Takeo, Thommanon and Chau Say Tevoda.

Lunch at local restaurant, after your rest visit to the Preah Khan temple; built by the King Jayavarman VII, Preah Khan is, like Ta Prohm, a place of towered enclosures and shoulder-hugging corridors. Unlike Ta Prohm, however, Preah Khan is in a reasonable state of preservation and ongoing restoration efforts should maintain and even improve this situation. Continue your visit to Neak Pean, a fountain (built in the middle of a pool and representing the paradisiacal Himalayan mountain-lake), Ta Som, Eastern Mebon, guarded at its corner by stone figures of harnessed elephants, some of which are still in a reasonable state of preservation, and Pre Rup, the mountain-temple until sunset.

Dinner at local restaurant. Overnight at hotel.

Day 5: Siem Reap - Angkor Day Two (Breakfast / Lunch / Dinner included)

After breakfast in hotel, we will visit the South Gate (with its huge statues depicting the churning of the ocean of milk), the ancient capital of Angkor Thom (12th century), Bayon temple (unique for its 54 towers decorated with over 200 smiling faces of Avolokitesvara), the Royal Enclosure, Phimeanakas, the Elephants Terrace and the Terrace of the Leper King.

Lunch at local restaurant. After your rest, we visit to the most famous of all the temples on the plain of Angkor: Angkor Wat. The temple complex covers 81 hectares and is comparable in size to the Imperial Palace in Beijing. Its distinctive five towers are emblazoned on the Cambodian flag and the 12th century masterpiece is considered by art historians to be the prime example of classical Khmer art and architecture. Angkor Wat's five towers symbolize Meru's five peaks - the enclosed wall represents the mountains at the edge of the world and the surrounding moat, the ocean beyond. Sunset at Phnom Bakong.

Tonight enjoy dinner with Apsara Dance Show at local restaurant.