Day 1: Small Tour & Sunset
After breakfast, we will meet you at 8:00 am in the hotel lobby and we will head straight to purchase the Angkor 3 days pass before we explore South Gate of the Angkor Thom ( gate of the ancient city of Khmer Empire) and we will take you to visit the beautiful Angkor temples inside the Angkor Thom such as Bayon, Baphoun, Terrace of the Elephant, King Palace area, Phimean Akas and terrace of leper king. We will break for lunch & relax in the Angkor park.
After lunch break, we will proceed to visit Cambodia’s massive temple, Angkor Wat monument. If the weather allows and you are not too tired, we can take you to see the sunset at Bakheng mountain or Pre Rup temple.
We would like to recommend for you to watch Cambodia’s traditional shows with buffet dinner at the Kulen II restaurant. Please inform us if you are interested. We can help you to make advance booking.
Day 2: Lady Temple & Jungle Temple
Start the day from the hotel at 8:00 am, we proceed straight to a unique red sandstone temple called Banteay Srei (Lady’s temple) earlier before arrival of the huge crowds & Beng Mealea (Hindu temple names Jungle temple). We will stop for lunch on the way to Rolous Group. After lunch, we continue on our journey to explore temples in the Rolous Group. There are two must see ancient temples such as Bakong (the first largest sandstone temple of Khmer architecture) and Prasat Preah Kor (secret bull temple). We will head to discover the lifestyle of Cambodia people at Kampong Phluk Village, these villagers live at the bank of the well-known freshwater lake in Southeast Asia, Tonle Sap Lake.
We highly recommend that you watch the circus “Phare”, which starts from 8:00 pm to 9:00 pm. It costs $28/person for seat B. Please let us know in advance if you would like to watch because they are always fully booked.
Day 3: River of a thousand Lingas at Kulen Mountain
Your tour guide will meet you at 8:00 am or we can meet you any time before 9:30 am due to the distance of the journey. Before we go up to Phnom Kulen mountain, we have to take you to buy the entrance ticket of National Park. On the way, we will drive through the rural villages before reaching the most mystical mountain in Cambodia, Phnom Kulen mountain. It takes about 1 hour and a half from Siem Reap town to the mountain. This mountain is the birthplace of the ancient Khmer Empire and it was one of the oldest capital cities of Angkor. What we can see on the mountain is the source of water of SIEM REAP river which is commonly known as “River of a thousand lings” because there are about one thousand Shiva Lings carving in the river under the surface of the water from the early of ninth-century and the water in this river is considered holy and belief that it can wash away sin from our body.
After visiting the waterfall, we will walk up to a 16th-century Buddhist monastery name as Wat Preah Ang Thom where we can see Cambodia’s largest 16th century reclining Buddha statue. We will leave from Phnom Kulen Mountain to Banteay Srei temple around midday and have lunch at the nearby stop.
After one hour lunch break, we will continue to see red sandstone temple called Banteay Srei temple and Banteay Samre temple and head back to your hotel.
We would like to recommend that you have dinner at Kulen Restaurant.The food is delicious. We can help you make advance booking.
