CLASSICAL CAMBODIA

All highlights of Cambodia in one tour:

Angkor Temples, Tonle Sap Lake, overland tour to Phnom Penh, discovery of the capital.

This tour provides an excellent introduction to Cambodian culture and history.

Many included special extras like massage, apsara dinner show, cyclo tour and much more ...

Day 1: Angkor Thom and Angkor Wat

Pick up and check in Ta Som Guesthouse with welcome drink and cold towel. In your room, we provide a tropical fruit basket.
In air conditioned car, drive with your our experienced English speaking local tour guide to the nearby Angkor Archaeological Park, UNESCO-World Heritage site since 1992.

Day 2: Angkor

After an unforgettable "must see" sunrise in Angkor Wat, you meet your tourguide and have at first breakfast (as breakfast box) on the picturesque Srah Srang Water Basin. Enjoy this quiet place, the former royal bath.

Visit Banteay Kdei and Ta Prohm, the so called "jungle temples".
Enjoy to "feel" and to "smell" Angkor!
Optional lunch near Ta Prohm Temple.

In the afternoon, explore Preah Khan temple (with huge trees overgrowing the ruins). Go on seeing the most important temples on the "grand circuit", like Neak Pean (holy bath) and the Eastern Mebon (with Elephant statues).

Our special: Ta Som Temple
As Ta Som Temple gave the name to our Guesthouse and Tour Agency,
the visit of this marvellous small temple is also included in this tour!
Ta Som means "the ancestor", king Jayavarman VII dedicated this temple to his teacher.
Enjoy the famous eastern gopuram of Ta Som, which is depicted on our logo. Don't miss to take your picture.

Sunset in Angkor (i.e. from Pre Rup temple).
Transfer back to Ta Som Guesthouse, optional dinner.
On this second day, you should try the traditional Loklak beef, together with a refreshing pineapple juice or tropical fruit shake!

After your second day in the temples, you will be certainly tired and you will enjoy the included traditional Khmer massage in your air conditioned room.
Relax and revitalize your body for the next days in Angkor!

 Day 3: Tonle Sap Lake & Banteay Srei

After your breakfast in Ta Som Guesthouse,
enjoy your boat trip on the Tonle Sap Lake to see the floating village of Chong Kneas. Visit the traditional fish farm and the crocodile farm and learn about fishing techniques and life on the water.

In the afternoon, enjoy your journey through picturesque cultural landscape with rice paddies and sugar palms in the Northern part of the Angkor Archaeological Park.
Visit another highlight of Angkor: the famous and precious Banteay Srei Temple.

Banteay Srei means "the citadel of the women" and is reknown because of its incredible sandstone carvings looking like wood. It really deserves the name "diamond of Angkor".
You also visit Banteay Samre Temple.

In the evening, enjoy a traditional Apsara dance show with a delicious dinner buffet.

 Day 4: From Siem Reap to Phnom Penh & Mekong sunset cruise

After breakfast, go by Capitol bus from Siem Reap on the old Angkorian road via Kampong Thom and Skuon ("spider city") to the capital Phnom Penh.
Enjoy your journey of 314 km through the rich farmlands and the scenery of rice fields, water buffaloes and authentic Khmer village life.
Check-in Capitol Guesthouse and time for leisure.
 

In the evening, enjoy a romantic Mekong river sunset cruise on a traditional wood boat. Relax on the boat and enjoy great views on the “Phnom Penh skyline” (Royal Palace, Silver Pagoda, Mekong riverside promenade) during sunset.

Day 5: Royal Phnom Penh

In the morning, visit Wat Phnom. See the different shrines of Theravada and Mahayana budhhism and enjoy this quiet place in the heart of the capital.

Visit the Tuol Sleng Museum for genocide, and learn about this cruel part of Cambodian history.

Continue to famous National Museum with the worldwide largest collection of Khmer art. You will see lots of masterpieces of Khmer bronzes, bas-reliefs and sculptures, like the famous reclining Vishnu (from Western Baray) and the stone sculptured head of Jayavarman VII, the most powerful of all Angkorian kings. The Museum gives an excellent overview of Angkorian history and art and invites you to sum up your visits of Angkor.

Go on your program with the Royal Palace and its highly decorated throne hall, the flowered royal gardens and of course the famous Silver Pagoda. See the model of Angkor Wat giving you a bird eyes’ view of the whole temple area.

By traditional “cyclo” you will be driven from the Royal Palace to the colourful Central Market. This cyclo tour is certainly one of the highlights of your Phnom Penh program.
Explore the market area and have lunch in Suriya Market with lots of all kinds of foodstands (exclusive).

Overnight in Capitol Guesthouse. 

 Day 6:

After check-out, transfer to airport / boat - / bus station.

End of services.

Have a nice trip to your next destination!