Splendors of Cambodia - 5 days

Chom Reab Suor, Welcome to Cambodia.
Arrive in Siem Reap, meet your guide and transfer to your hotel. Time to relax.
The guide will meet up with you in the evening and head out for dinner following with a great performance of PHARE circus. Enjoy their interpretations of modern life and issues in Cambodian society.

Meals: Dinner

Accommodation: The Aviary Hotel – Tailorbird Standard room

Begin your day to explore the famed Angkor Wat Temple. The largest and best preserved among the many temples in the area, the experience of walking its sacred grounds is not to be forgotten.

Afternoon you will enter the South Gate of Angkor Thom, then view the massive stone faces on the towers of the Bayon. Continue to Ta Prohm which has been left just as it was when rediscovered.

Dinner tonight serves in a stylish contemporary restaurant will introduce you the best of Cambodian flavors, enjoy dinner and watch the Apsara dance show on stage.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner

Accommodation: The Aviary Hotel – Tailorbird Standard room

After breakfast you will transfer to the local market of Siem Reap before continue to visit the Angkor National Museum, this world class museum introducing the profound cultural landmarks of Siem Reap. 

After lunch, explore the Grand Circuit of temples including Preah Khan is a huge and highly exportable monastic complex. Full of carvings, passages and photo opportunities. It originally served as a Buddhist monastery and school, engaging over 1000 monks. Afterward, visit Neak Pean a small island temple located in the middle of the last baray (the Preah Khan Baray or Jayatataka) to be constructed by a Khmer king in the Angkor area. The rest of day, we will visit Ta Som and East Mebon.

Late afternoon, set your spot to witness the sunset shade paint on the sky at Pre Rup, where you can see Angkor Archaeological Park stand out from the orange, red and purple background.

Dinner in tonight is well served at a fusion themed contemporary restaurant

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner

Accommodation: The Aviary Hotel – Tailorbird Standard room

In the morning, you will cycle to Kbal Spean, one of the most fantastic and elaborate spectacle in Angkor. Taking a 30-minute hike uphill to reach the eminent “river of a thousand lingas”, you might see these symbolic carvings along the riverbed. From there, you cycle to Banteay Srei Temple, a relic renowned for its antique pink sandstones and sharp, intricate carvings. Have lunch at a community-based tourism.

On the way back, you will stop en route to taste sugar palm/ Khmer noodles and join hands with Preah Dak Village’s community planting trees to support reforestation progress in Cambodia. Your plant, maybe a jackfruit or mango tree, would later help both offsetting carbons in nature environment and benefiting local harvest.

In the end of the day, let’s reward yourself with a memorable cruise among Angkor Thom compound on a gondola paddle boat while watching sunset over Prasat Chroung temple. Champagne will be served on the boat, when you slowly float along the sound water, round this ancient moat.

Cycling distance: 50 km

Cycling duration: 3 – 3.5hrs

Meals: Breakfast & Lunch

Accommodation: The Aviary Hotel – Tailorbird Standard room

Note: The ride can be customized in length, as the support vehicle can be used at any time by tired riders.

After breakfast and check-out, you will head out to Kompong Kleang “floating village”, which is, in fact, a stilt house where structures can tower up to ten meters above the water. Back to Siem Reap for lunch. Free at your own leisure until the transfer to the airport.

We wish you a pleasant and enjoyable trip with Sens Asia Travel!

Meals: Breakfast & Lunch