Siem Reap Trip Overview
This day tour is the highlight of Siem Reap. It takes you to explore the magnificent temples of Angkor Wat, Angkor Thom, Ta Prohm Temple, Banteay Kdei & finish with sunset viewing. With your experienced tour guide, you will spend the day visiting the main temples on your trip to Siem Reap.
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* Duration: 8 to 10 hours
* Starts: Siem Reap, Cambodia
* Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Cultural Tours
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What to Expect When Visiting Siem Reap, Siem Reap Province, Cambodia
This day tour is the highlight of Siem Reap. It takes you to explore the magnificent temples of Angkor Wat, Angkor Thom, Ta Prohm Temple, Banteay Kdei & finish with sunset viewing. With your experienced tour guide, you will spend the day visiting the main temples on your trip to Siem Reap.
Itinerary
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Stop At: Angkor Wat, Sangkat Nokor Thum, Siem Reap Cambodia
After picking up from your hotel, we head out to Angkor Archaeological Park which is only around a 30 minute drive. Our first stop is UNESCO- listed World Heritage Site of Angkor Wat Temple. The temple is an enormous Buddhist temple complex. With your experienced tour guide, you will spend two hours hearing about stories and history and discovering the corridors, central chambers, and upper terraces of the world’s largest religious complex of Angkor Wat.
Duration: 2 hours
Stop At: Angkor Thom South Gate, National Road #6 Angkor Archaeological Park, Siem Reap 17252 Cambodia
From Angkor Wat, head north toward Angkor Thom. Before we enter this former ancient city of Angkor Thom, we will stop at South Gate of the great city for a short walk along the causeway flanked by a row of 54 stone figures on each side, gods to the left and demons to the right, and the fortified walled city of Angkor Thom.
Duration: 15 minutes
Stop At: Bayon Temple, Angkor Thom, Siem Reap Cambodia
Bayon is a tower temple located in the center point of the great city of Angkor Thom. Its beautifully crafted central towers, covered in more than 200 enormous faces. Each face is 4 meters high and is facing one of the cardinal directions of the compass. They all have the same serene smile, with eyes closed, representing the all-knowing state of inner peace.
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Stop At: Baphuon Temple, Angkor Tom Angkor Archaeological Park, Siem Reap 17252 Cambodia
Also, located inside Angkor Thom, Baphuon is a beautiful 11th century “temple-mountain” with steep stairs leading visitors to a terrace which offers one of the best views in the Angkor Archaeological Park.
Duration: 20 minutes
Stop At: Terrace of the Elephants, Angkor Thom Angkor Archaeological Park, Siem Reap 17252 Cambodia
The Terrace of the Elephants is a striking 350-meter-long and 2.5-meter-high ornamental wall which, as the name suggests, is mostly decorated with carved elephants. It serves as a viewing platform, from which King Jayavarman VII looked over his victorious returning army.
Duration: 20 minutes
Stop At: Chau Say Tevoda, National Road 6 Angkor Archaeological Park, Siem Reap 17252 Cambodia
We travel out of Angkor Thom through the east gate and stop for short visit at Chau Say Tevoda temple. This small, graceful Hindu temple has a central sanctuary, 2 libraries and 4 towers which are at the 4 cardinal points on the compass. To the north is a twin temple of Thommanon, which has a similar design and floor plan to Chau Say Tevoda.
Duration: 15 minutes
Stop At: Ta Prohm Temple, Angkor Archaeological Park, Siem Reap 21000 Cambodia
On the same small circuit road lead to the jungle-enveloped Ta Prohm, one of the most atmospheric of all temples in Angkor. Once home to 2,740 monks, Ta Prohm today looks much as it did in the early 1850s, when French explorer Henri Mouhot ‘rediscovered’ this crumbling site. After exploring the maze-like interior of Ta Prohm, return to your hotel after a long but fulfilling day, which will leave you with a lifetime of memories of one of the wonders of the world.
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Stop At: Banteay Kdei, Angkor Archaelogical Park, Siem Reap 17000 Cambodia
Banteay Kdei is peaceful and quiet. Its name means “Citadel of Chambers”, the ruins are a fascinating maze of chambers that are a delight to explore. Also serving as a Buddhist temple, these ruins have been home to an active monastery at multiple time periods since their construction in the 12th century, up until the 1960s.
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: Srah Srang, National Road 6 Angkor Archaeological Park, Siem Reap 17252 Cambodia
Just opposite Banteay Kdei Temple is a royal pond of Srah Srang. It is a large pond (700 by 300 meters) with elegant landing terrace of superb proportion and scale. A majestic platform (landing stage) which leads to the pond. It is built of laterite with sandstone molding.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Phnom Bakheng, Angkor Archaeological Park, Siem Reap 17000 Cambodia
We finish the day tour with sunset viewing at Bakheng Hill which overlook Angkor Wat Temple and West Baray.
Duration: 1 hour
