Siem Reap Trip Overview
Experience the best of Siem Reap on the Great Lake of Tonle Sap and the awesome Temples of Angkor. Explore the countryside and the real life of Cambodian local people. Take the boat cruise to visit the fishing villages, flooded forest and learn about the world’s second largest freshwater Tonle Sap Lake. Discovery one of Asia’s greatest kingdoms from your historian guide and see major temples during sunrise & sunset.
Additional Info
* Duration: 3 days
* Starts: Siem Reap, Cambodia
* Trip Category: Multi-day & Extended Tours >> Multi-day Tours
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What to Expect When Visiting Siem Reap, Siem Reap Province, Cambodia
Experience the best of Siem Reap on the Great Lake of Tonle Sap and the awesome Temples of Angkor. Explore the countryside and the real life of Cambodian local people. Take the boat cruise to visit the fishing villages, flooded forest and learn about the world’s second largest freshwater Tonle Sap Lake. Discovery one of Asia’s greatest kingdoms from your historian guide and see major temples during sunrise & sunset.
Itinerary
Day 1: Fishing Village (Tonle Sap Lake) and Roulous Temples Group or Phare The Cambodia Circus
Stop At: Kampong Phluk Floating Village, Siem Reap Cambodia
Start your journey morning at 8.00 am depart your hotel for the journey through the countryside to the world’s second largest freshwater Tonle Sap Lake. Tonle Sap Lake swells to 12,000 km². During the dry half of the year, the lake shrinks to as small as 2,500 km², draining into the Tonle Sap River. Take a boat trip to ‘Kampong Phluk’ a collection of three small fishing villages in an atmospheric flooded forest setting. Enjoy Khmer lunch (own expense) at the local restaurant and rest after Tonle Sap Lake.
Duration: 3 hours
Stop At: Bakong, Roluos, Siem Reap Cambodia
This afternoon visit the Roulos group of temples. This collection of monuments was built in the late 9th century as a capital city for King Jayavaraman II. We take time out here to explore the temples (Preah Ko, Bakong and Lolei)
Duration: 3 hours
No meals included on this day.
No accommodation included on this day.
Day 2: Angkor Thom, Bayon, Neak Pean, Bantreay Srei, and Pre Rup temple
Stop At: Angkor Thom, Angkor Wat, Siem Reap 17259 Cambodia
This morning heading to toward Angkor Thom. This majestic site once served as the Khmer Empire’s glistening capital city. Take a moment to consider its grandiosity before venturing inside the city. Arriving at the temple at Bayon, appreciate its beautifully crafted central towers covered in more than 200 enormous faces. Move to Neak Pean an artificial island with a Buddhist temple on a circular island in Jayatataka Baray
Duration: 4 hours
Stop At: Banteay Srei, Siem Reap Cambodia
Continue your Journey and visit the well-preserved Banteay Srei. The detailed reliefs on this smaller sandstone structure are regarded as the finest, most skillfully crafted in Cambodia.
One the way back brief stop at well-preserved Banteay Samre, a laterite structure which once featured internal moats.
Duration: 3 hours
Stop At: Pre Rup, National Road #6 Angkor Archaeological Park, Siem Reap 17252 Cambodia
We end our discoveries of the temples of Angkor with clamp up for sunset at Pre Rub temple.
Duration: 1 hour
Pass By: Neak Pean, Angkor Wat Angkor Archaeological Park, Siem Reap 17252 Cambodia
Neak Pean an artificial island with a Buddhist temple on a circular island in Jayatataka Baray.
Pass By: Ta Som, Angkor Archaeological Park, 17252 Cambodia
Pass by
No meals included on this day.
No accommodation included on this day.
Day 3: Temples of Angkor with Sunrise
Stop At: Angkor Wat, Sangkat Nokor Thum, Siem Reap Cambodia
We begin with a pre-dawn departure from your hotel for sunrise outside Angkor Wat. Soak up the atmosphere of dawn at Angkor, from the edge of one of the ancient library pools. We then explore the interior of the great temple, spending a thorough two hours discovering the corridors, central chambers and upper terraces of this truly great temple.
Duration: 3 hours
Stop At: Preah Khan, Angkor Wat Angkor Archaelogical Park, Siem Reap 17252 Cambodia
Continue the morning by moving on to Preah Khan temple, a ruined but highly atmospheric mélange of tree roots and crumbling stone structures.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Ta Prohm, National Road #6 Angkor Archaeological Park, Siem Reap 17252 Cambodia
set out for the jungle-enveloped Ta Prohm – one of the most atmospheric of all temples in Angkor
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Stop At: Ta Nei Temple, Siem Reap Cambodia
At the end of the morning return to your hotel for lunch and a swim, and in the afternoon drive to Ta Nei a late 12th Century stone temple located in Angkor. It was dedicated to the Buddha.
Duration: 2 hours
Stop At: Ta Prohm Temple, Angkor Archaeological Park, Siem Reap 21000 Cambodia
End your tour with set out for the jungle-enveloped Ta Prohm – one of the most atmospheric of all temples in Angkor. Today is a long but fulfilling day which will leave you with lifetime memories of some of the most impressive monuments built by mankind.
Tour Price
Duration: 2 hours
No meals included on this day.
No accommodation included on this day.
