Day 1
Transport
Meals:None
Activities (time & subjects may change when necessary)Arrive in Siem Reap in the early afternoon.
Detailed Itinerary: Arrive in Siem Reap in the early afternoon. Your tour guide is waiting for you at the airport and escorts you to your hotel where you can relax from the long flight. Perhaps you also have seized the curiosity and take a first private tour of the town near the temples of Angkor. Overnight in Siem Reap.
Day 2
Transport
Meals:B, L
Activities (time & subjects may change when necessary)Bike ride is depending on the hotel
Detailed Itinerary: Breakfast is at hotel. Follow the paths through the countryside of Siem Reap to the legendary temple of Angkor Wat, the outer gallery of the longest continuous bas-reliefs in the world. We continue to Bayon, where you take in the face of over 200 smiling faces of your lunch. Along the Terrace of Elephants and the Terrace of the Leper King, then cycle through the Gate of Death and Victoria to the temple Ta Prohm and Sra Srang. In the evening you climb the hill, Phnom Bakheng to enjoy the sunset. Stay overnight in Siem Reap. Bike ride is depending on the hotel, total 46 – 56 km.
Day 3
Transport
Meals:B, L
Activities (time & subjects may change when necessary)Bike ride depending on the hotel
Detailed Itinerary: You cycle to hidden temples and through a rural idyll. In the early morning climb again your bike to explore the temple of Banteay Srei. The stonework of the temple is of such perfection that his name is in the trade as a synonym for the Khmer art in the period of its creation. After our lunch it is over mostly unpaved roads to the temples of Prea Khan, embedded in a dense jungle, and Neak Pean, before you reach your final stop of the day, the massive Buddhist temple of Banteay Kdei. Be enchanted by the way the rural idyll and the lonely places around Angkor. Stay overnight in Siem Reap. Bike ride depending on the hotel total 48 – 58 km.
Day 4
Transport
Meals:B, L, D
Activities (time & subjects may change when necessary)Visit with your guide about the local market
Detailed Itinerary: In the morning you cycle to the temples of Rolous group. The buildings of the Group Rolous mark the beginning of classical art and are among the earliest large, built by the Khmer temples. Bike ride total distance is 28 km. Lunch at a local restaurant. In the afternoon stroll; visit with your guide about the local market and by the EU-sponsored project, Les Artisans d’Angkor. Where training young people in the traditional art of wood Carving and also in Stone Carving. Dinner is at a restaurant while enjoying a traditional Apsara performance. Stay overnight in Siem Reap.
Day 5
Transport
Meals:B, L, D
Activities (time & subjects may change when necessary)Go to the villages of the area
Detailed Itinerary: Breakfast is at the hotel.
Option 1 August to March: boating through the Preak Tuol Bird Sanctuary to Battambang. In private wooden boats, you glide through the Tonle Sap River in the narrow Sangkar that leads to red-brown water, especially in the rainy season, to the floating village of Tuol Preak in the same Bird Sanctuary. With an experienced ornithologist and then dive into the world of birds, particularly from December to March where manifests itself of your eyes in a unique diversity. Following lunch in a traditional house in the village, continue on to Battambang. Stay overnight in Battambang.
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Option 2 April to July: along the Silk Road to Battambang. Near the Thai border is the office of the Organization PASS, where you are a man of the tray, a first introduction to the silk-based development project. Lunch is at a local restaurant. On a traditional Koyoan, a rattling transport vehicle of the peasants, then go to the villages of the area, crossing place where water buffalo and cows, motorcycles, your way. They learn the silk production started in the cultivation of mulberry trees to know up to the weaving of fine fabrics, before you make further on the way to Battambang. Have dinner at a local restaurant. Stay overnight in Battambang.
Day 6
Transport
Meals:B, L
Activities (time & subjects may change when necessary)Enjoy the view over the city. Stay overnight in Battambang.
Detailed Itinerary: The second largest city of Cambodia, Battambang, is situated in the fertile region of the country. With a bamboo train built by the local villagers drive sitting on the platform to the next station of a village which the doors of insight into everyday life and opened a small factory for wooden sculptures. Back in Battambang you dine at a local restaurant for lunch and stroll through the city centre to climb, with its well-preserved French colonial architecture and the Phnom Bannon Hill, on the top is the temple Prasat Bannon. Enjoy the view over the city. Stay overnight in Battambang.
Day 7
Transport
Meals:B, L
Activities (time & subjects may change when necessary)Journey takes you towards Phnom Penh from rural areas
Detailed Itinerary: After breakfast your journey takes you towards Phnom Penh from rural areas, where you will stop off in a small village famous for its pottery. Lunch is at a local restaurant. On the way you reach the former capital Udong at the foot of the hill, built on the two surveys have been a number of sanctuaries. After your climb you explore the wonderful view of the typical landscape of rice fields and sugar palms and the three famous stupas where the ashes are kept, the former kings and their families. Stay overnight in Phnom Penh.
Day 8
Transport
Meals:B, L
Activities (time & subjects may change when necessary)You reach the Royal Palace and Silver Pagoda
Detailed Itinerary: Breakfast at the hotel and then explore the capital with a cyclo, a symbol of the Asian countries. First you reach the Royal Palace and Silver Pagoda. After you enter in the traditional style of the country’s national museum, which houses treasures of art and culture of the Khmer, and climb to the Wat Phnom, Phnom Penh where the story began. Lunch is at a local restaurant. Your afternoon program includes a visit to the Tuol Sleng Museum, a memorial of the recent traumatic past of the country before you wander through the souvenir hunters indispensable for the Russian market. Stay overnight in Phnom Penh.
Day 9
Transport
Meals:B, L
Activities (time & subjects may change when necessary)Visit the Apsara Arts Association
Detailed Itinerary: Buddhist Cleaning & Historic Takeo: In the morning visit the Apsara Arts Association, where trains children from poor families in the traditional arts of dance, music and theatre. Be witness to a lively imagination, before you reach a pagoda, where two monks to welcome you and cleanse you spiritually according to traditional custom. Then this pioneering drives into the southern province of Takeo on the lake, Tonle Bati. Lunch is at a local restaurant. On the Tonle Bati temple of Ta Prohm and Yeay Poeuv recall the heyday of the 12th Century. Continue to Kep. Stay overnight in Kep.
Day 10
Transport
Meals:B, L
Activities (time & subjects may change when necessary)Stay overnight in Kep.
Detailed Itinerary: Near Kampong Trach lie hidden amidst a bizarre rocky landscape, the three caves Phnom Bak, Groh Pea Neak and hide Roung Srae Muayroy in which Buddhist sanctuaries. As one of the last refugees camp of the Khmer Rouge can be found alongside numerous additional tunnels that were dug into the rocks. Lunch is at a local restaurant. A pepper farm invites them to explore the secrets of the spice. Stay overnight in Kep.
Day 11
Transport
Meals:B, L
Activities (time & subjects may change when necessary)Return to Kep
Detailed Itinerary: Today they travel by boat to the nearby island of Koh Tunsay with its white sandy beaches fringed by coconut palms. On the island, some live a few fishing families. You can be the day as desired. You can swim in the crystal clear waters, sunbathe or watch the numerous schools of fish while snorkelling. Lunch is on the island. In the evening we return to Kep. Stay overnight in Kep.
Day 12
Transport
Meals:B
Activities (time & subjects may change when necessary)Stay overnight in Kep.
Detailed Itinerary: Have day at leisure. Unwind with a stroll along the beach or sunbathing. Stay overnight in Kep.
Day 13
Transport
Meals:B
Activities (time & subjects may change when necessary)Transfer to the airport for departure.
Detailed Itinerary: In the morning you have another opportunity to explore the thriving little town of Kep, which was destroyed during the reign of the Khmer Rouge almost completely. For lunch you leave the coast of Cambodia and go back to the capital Phnom Penh. Transfer to the airport for departure.