Day 1: THE ADVENTURE BEGINS- SAY HELLO TO PHNOM PENH
Upon arrival in Phnom Penh, you will be privately transferred between the airport and your hotel by a professional driver and an English-speaking guide.
Stay tonight at the White Mansions Boutique Hotel (Deluxe room)
Day 2: SIGHTS AND INSIGHTS
Today, with your private guide visit the city's oldest and tallest religious structure, the Wat Phnom. Then continue the Royal Palace, built in 1866 under King Norodom for a glimpse of Khmer architecture. You will also visit the Silver Pagoda - named after its floors, which it's designed with 5000 silver tiles. After the palace, wonder in the National Museum and seek its huge collection of fine Khmer sculptures and artefacts, recovered from ancient Angkor Empire. Lunch will be served at a local restaurant.
In the afternoon, visit the notorious Tuol Sleng Prison, housed in a high school, and glimpse the horrors that prevailed during Cambodia's ultra-radical Marxist movement. Afterwards, take an excursion to Choeng Ek, site of former orchards where more than 17,000 civilians were killed and buried in mass graves by the Khmer Rouge between 1975 - 1979. Known as the “Killing Fields”.
Stay tonight at the White Mansions Boutique Hotel (Deluxe room)
Day 3: ON TO SIEM REAP & THE WONDERS OF ANGKOR
This morning, your journey continues on to Siem Reap (Angkor) as you fly to Siem Reap for a two-night stay at the Golden Temple Hotel. Explore incredible Angkor, the wondrous ruins of the ancient Khmer empire. With your private guide, tour the most interesting parts of this UNESCO World Heritage Site, visit to the vast, 12th-century Angkor Wat, an enormous temple city built as a model of the Hindu universe in stone; Angkor Thom, an ancient capital filled with iconic sites such as the Bayon, Baphuon, Phimeanakas, Terrace of the Elephants and Terrace of the Leper King, and Ta Prohm, a temple being devoured by the jungle.
Stay tonight at the Golden Temple Hotel (Deluxe room)
Day 4: KHMER TEMPLES & A TONLE SAP LAKE CRUISE (Breakfast, Lunch)
Explore a less-visited temple: Banteay Srei, known as “Citadel of Women.” and serene Preah Khan, a former monastery and school.
Cruise on Tonle Sap Lake, revealing its fascinating floating villages, markets and gardens. Also cruise through the flooded forest to learn about the Tonle Sap ecosystem and spot birds and other wildlife.
Stay tonight at the Golden Temple Hotel (Deluxe room)
Day 5: DEPART SIEM REAP (Breakfast)
You will be privately transferred between the airport and your hotel by a professional driver and an English-speaking guide.
