PHNOMPENH – SIEMREAP(06days/05nights)
Arrive Phnompenh meet your guide at the airport and transfer
to your hotel in Phnompenh.
Afternoon, Visit the Royal Palace, built by King Norodom in
1866 on the site of the old town, and the Silver Pagoda. Located within the
grounds of the Royal Palace, the Silver Pagoda is so named because of its
floor, which is made up of 5,000 silver tiles. The treasures found inside
include a solid gold Buddha encrusted and weighing 90 kilograms and a small
17th century emerald and baccarat crystal Buddha. End your afternoon with the
visit of the Wat Phnom temple, Phnom Penh’s namesake, from where you can enjoy
views over the tree-lined avenues of the city during sunset. Accommodation at
hotel.
Day 2 (Monday) :
Phnom Penh - Kompong Chhnang (B, L, D)
Breakfast at your hotel.
Embark at the pier in Phnom Penh at 8:00 am. Welcome on
board of R/V Toum Teav and departure for our cruise on the Tonle Sap River to
Oudong. Visit of Oudong, then stop at Prek Kdam to visit a small silver
handicraft village. Lunch on board on the way to Kampong Tralach, stop and
visit its wonderful pagoda. Dinner and overnight on board.
Day 3 (Tuesday) :
Kompong Chhnang - Kompong Luong (B, L, D)
Sail to Kompong Chhnang to visit the market and a pottery
village. Sail to Chnok Tru, the last big village before the River meets the
Great Lake of Tonle Sap. Lunch on-board. Continue to Kompong Luong, one of the
largest floating villages on the Lake. Dinner and overnight on board while
anchored at Kompong Luong.
Day 4 (Wednesday): Kompong Luong - Siem Reap (B)
Half day sailing on the Great Lake of Tonle Sap. Relax in
the library or on the deck salon prior to arrival in Siem Reap. Sail along a
small canal, flocked with crowded floating houses, before reaching Phnom Kroum.
Pick – up at the pier in Siemreap & transfer to your hotel.
Afternoon, Visit Preah Khan temple. Built by the King Jayavarman
VII, Preah Khan is, like Ta Prohm, a place of towered enclosures and
shoulder-hugging corridors. Unlike Ta Prohm, however, Preah Khan is in a
reasonable state of preservation and ongoing restoration efforts should
maintain and even improve this situation. Continue your visits to Neak Pean, a
fountain built in the middle of a pool and representing the paradisiacal
Himalayan mountain-lake, and visit as well Ta Som and Srah Srang (“The Royal
Baths”), undoubtedly used in the past for ritual bathing.
Day 5: Siemreap (B, D)
Breakfast at hotel.
In the morning, visit the most famous of all the temples on
the plain of Angkor: Angkor Wat. The temple complex covers 81 hectares and is
comparable in size to the Imperial Palace in Beijing. Its distinctive five towers
are emblazoned on the Cambodian flag and the 12th century masterpiece is
considered by art historians to be the prime example of classical Khmer art and
architecture. Angkor Wat’s five towers symbolize Meru’s five peaks - the
enclosed wall represents the mountains at the edge of the world and the
surrounding moat, the ocean beyond.
Afternoon, Visit the ancient capital of Angkor Thom (12th
century). See the South Gate with its huge statues depicting the churning of
the ocean of milk, the Royal Enclosure, Phimeanakas, the Elephants Terrace, the
Terrace of the Leper King and Bayon temple (unique for its 54 towers decorated
with over 200 smiling faces of Avolokitesvara), until sunset.
Dinner at Apsara Theatre & Overnight in Siemreap.
Day 6: Siemreap (B)
Breakfast at the hotel.
In the morning, visit Prasat Kravan with its unique brick
sculptures and Ta Prohm. One of the area’s most beautiful temples, Ta Prohm has
been relatively untouched since it was discovered and retains much of its
mystery. Its appeal lies in the fact that, unlike the other monuments of
Angkor, it was abandoned and swallowed by the jungle, looking very much the
ways most of the Angkor temples appeared when European explorers first stumbled
upon them. Visit as well Takeo, Chau Say Tevoda and Thommanon.
Afternoon, transfer to the airport for your flight onward.
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