5 days - 5 DAY PHNOM PENH - SIEM REAP TOUR BY LAND

DAY 1. PHNOM PENH ARRIVAL -

Welcome to Phnom Penh, Cambodia!

• Upon arrival at Phnom Penh airport, you are warmly welcomed by our friendly tour guide and then

transfer to hotel for check in. (room may not be ready till 2:00 PM) 

Remain free at your own leisure.

What's Included

DAY 2. PHNOM PENH CITY TOUR B, L

• Breakfast at your hotel.

• Today you start your tour to visit 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 (From 1975–1979). Continue, visit 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.

Afternoon, visit 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. Then continue to National Museum, one of Phnom Penh's true architectural gems. It was designed in Khmer style in 1917 by famed French architect Georges Groslier & Ecole Des Arts Cambodgiens. Dinner at local restaurant at own account.

Transfer back to your hotel.

What's Included

DAY 3. PHNOM PENH - SIEM REAP WITH PRIVATE TRANSFER B, L

• Have breakfast at the hotel.

• After breakfast, check out the hotel and transfer with the driver and guide to Siem Reap. Driving distance is 312 km (Approximate 5 hours drive).

• Have lunch at a local restaurant.

• After lunch we continue the road spend a visit at Kompong Pluk floating village, located about 50km

from Siem Reap town. The place is situated on the northeast shore on the edge of Tonle Sap Lake. The road to the site is good but rather narrow. Here we board on the boat to explore the floating fishing villages that live at the edges of the lake, passing submerged forests and fishing farms. On the way, you will pass floating houses and impressive flooded forests, portraying life on the water.

After a floating village visit, continue the road to Siem Reap and transfer directly to the hotel.

What's Included

DAY 4. SIEM REAP TEMPLE TOUR B, L

• Have breakfast at the hotel.

•This morning our tour guide welcomed you to the hotel’s lobby, and visited Angkor Wat, 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. Then, continue to the ancient capital of Angkor Thom (12th century); See the South Gate (with its huge statues depicting the churning of the ocean of milk), Bayon Temple (unique for its 54 towers decorated with over 200 smiling faces of Avolokitesvara), the Royal Enclosure, Phimeanakas, the Elephant Terrace and the Terrace of the Leper King. 

Lunch at a local restaurant.

Afternoon, visit one of the area’s most beautiful temples, Ta Prohm (mid-12th – early 13th century). Intentionally left partially unrestored, massive fig and silk-cotton trees grow through the towers and corridors offering a ‘jungle atmosphere’ and some of the best ‘tree- in-temple’ photo opportunities at Angkor. 

Dinner at your own account.

Transfer back to your hotel.

What's Included

DAY 5. SIEM REAP DEPARTURE B

• Have breakfast at the hotel.

•  This morning you will be transferred to the airport for your flight back home or your next destination.

What's Included