4 DAYS/3NIGHTS – CAMBODIA CLASSIC AND CULTURAL TOURS

Upon arrival at Siem Reap Angkor International Airport, greeting by our driver, transferred directly to hotel (Check in time is 14:00). Early check in subjected to availability and surcharge will be applied.

Evening, transfer to dinner with Apsara Dance Show at local restaurant.

Overnight at Siem Reap.

Meal: Dinner with Apsara Dance Shows
Overnight at hotel in Siem Reap

Get up in the early dawn. At 04:30am, our driver and guide will pick up for the Sunrise moment at Angkor Wat. You may request restaurant to pack breakfast box for you so can have picnic breakfast by the temple after sunrise. Then we continue to visit Angkor Wat in more detail. Angkor Wat is a 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 our visit the famous Bayon temple, unique for its 54 towers decorated with over 200 smiling faces of Avolokitesvara. Continue visit to the Phimeanakas, the Royal Enclosure, the Elephants Terrace and the Terrace of the Leper King. Lunch at Cambodia Local Restaurant.

Afternoon, visit Ta Prohm, with enormous fig trees and gigantic creepers embracing themselves in the stone foundations of the structure giving the impression of man’s creation being reclaimed by the powerful forces of nature is an incredible sight.

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Evening, pick up from hotel for circus show. Cambodia circus of Phare, Siem Reap’s most unique, authentic, top rated evening entertainment. More than just a circus, Phare performers use theater, music, dance and modern circus arts to tell uniquely Cambodian stories; historical, folk and modern. The young circus artists will astonish you with their energy, emotion, enthusiasm and talent. Back to hotel.

Meal: Breakfast, Lunch
Overnight at hotel in Siem Reap

8:00AM, picked up from their hotel in the morning by the local guide and driven to Ta Prak Village, 25 minutes out of town. A packed breakfast from the hotel will be taken and on arrival will meet and sit down with a local family and share this breakfast with them and to learn about local village life early in the morning when generally it is at its most active. From here, take a 30-minute ox cart ride through the village to a local market. Take a short walk through this bustling center and be introduced to Cambodian vegetables, herbs, fruits and other local produce. Continue 1 km by foot through the picturesque countryside village, stopping to meet the local community along the way to observe whatever seasonal activity is happening at that time, such as rice planting, weaving thatch roofs, planting or harvesting vegetable crops, making fish traps etc. Each tour will be different and the activities will depend on the time of the year, the family, and the needs of the local village. The surrounding countryside with its paddy fields and sugar palm trees is very typical for Cambodia. End the morning at the local pagoda where a special water Blessing by Buddhist Monks await. At the end of your ride, have a fresh coconut juice.

Continue and travel out to Kampong Phluk, a village a bit further away but which receives very fewer tourists. Thus, this stilted village is the best place to see the authentic life of the local fisherman and their families who live amongst the flooded mangrove forest. At Kampong Phluk, board a local boat for a ride on the lake. On the way, see houses on stilts that are submerged with the lake extends, pass by floating houses and impressive flooded forests and get a good feel for life on the water. Enjoy the beautiful scenery dominated by the tranquility of the lake.

After tours, transfer back to hotel. Overnight at hotel in Siem Reap. 

Meal: Breakfast, Lunch
Overnight at hotel in Siem Reap

After breakfast at hotel, visit Satcha Handicraft Center is the first Cambodian handicraft center that incubates local artisans, mixing traditional knowledge with contemporary design to showcase Cambodian’ talents to local and international visitors and to transmit these know-how over time while having a sustainable social, economic, and environmental impact. Then drive around the city or stop by at Old Market, 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. Then we continue to Wat Bo, a highly respected pagoda founded in the 18th century, containing very unique wall paintings of the Reamker (Ramayana) that are said to be from the late 19th century. Preah Ang Check Preah Ang Chorm Shrine, the religious shrine that worships the sacred statutes of two Angkorian princesses. This is also the place where local people come to pray for good luck.

After tour transfer, check out hotel at 12:00 Noon then transfer to lunch at local restaurant before transferring to Siem Reap Angkor International Airport (SAI) for your next destination.

Meal: Breakfast, Lunch

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