SPLENDIS OF KHMER ART (5 Days / 4 Nights)
Tour Code: CBD 05

Meet guide upon the arrival at Phnom Penh international airport transfer to the Hotel for checking in and afternoon start a tour to:

• National Museum, also called the (Musee des Beaux-Art).A French archeologist and painter, Georges Groslier, designed the khmer style building in 1917. It contains a large collection of Arts notably sculptures representing in each period of khmer history.
• Royal palace, Built by French in 1866 on the site of the 15th centuries Palace and silver pagoda also named because of the floor which is made up of 5329 silver tiles. With 90 kg of gold Buddha and 2086 diamonds.
• Wat Phnom. Wat Phnom was built by Madam Penh in 1372 when she found a Buddha inside a Koki tree on the site. It is still an important historical side with great religious significance for Cambodians today.

Breakfast at the Hotel and transfer to the airport for the flight. Upon the arrival at Siem Reap airport transfer to Hotel and continue to see the ancient capital of Angkor Thom (12 centuries) see the South Gate (with it huge statues depicting of the ocean of milk), Bayon Temple, Elephant Terrace and the terrace of the leper King.

Afternoon visit the most famous of all the temples on the Angkor Plain: Angkor Wat the temple complex covers 81 hectares with five towers and built in 12 centuries and become the biggest religious temple in the world and symbolizes the Meru's mountain's five peaks, the enclosed wall represents the mountain at the edge of the world and the surrounding moat symbolizes the ocean beyond, overnight in Siem reap.

Breakfast at Hotel transfer to visit Tomamnon, chau say Teveda, Takeo, and prasat kravan (with its unique brick sculptures), the mountain temple of Pre Rup, Eastern Mebon,( guarded at it corner by stone figures of harnessed elephants), Ta Som, Neak Pean( built in the middle of a pool and representing the paradisiacal Himalyan mountain lake and the temple of Preah Khan, built by Jayavarman VII.

Continue to see the sunset from Phnom Bakheng one of two hills dominating the plain of Angkor, from where you can speculate the view of western Baray.

Breakfast at Hotel, visit Banteay Srei temple (10th century), regarded as the jewel in the crown of classical khmer art. Then continue your visit to Banteay somre, built the third quarter of the 12th century .it consist of a central temple with four wings proceeded by a hall and accompanies by a two libraries, the southernmost of which is remarkably well preserved. Two concentric walls enclose the ensemble.

Afternoon visit the floating village of chong khneas, located 10 km south of Siem Reap. Visit the village and take a traditional wooden boat for a ride on the Tonle Sap, the great lake of Cambodia and the largest in Asia, overnight in Siem reap.

• Option 1 Siem Reap Departure to the next destination.
• Option 2 Phnom Penh Departure to the next destination.
  Breakfast at Hotel and continue to visit the Toul Sleng Museum(S-21 prison). This former school was used as a prison by Pol Pot's security forces. It became the largest center to detention and torture during the brutal rile of the Khmer Rouge and the Killing Fields ( 15km south of phnom penh ) Between 1975 and late 1978 a round 17,000 men, women, children, infants ( including nine westerners) were detained and tortured at the S-21 prison and transport to the extermination camp of Choeng Ek. They were often bludgeoned to death to avoid wasting precious bullets. Fragment of human bone and bits of cloth are scattered around disinterred pits. There are over 8000 skulls arranged by sex and ages are visible behind the clear glass panels of the memorial stupa, which were erected in 1988 and then transfer to Phnom Penh airport for departure to the next destination.

• Transfer and tour with English or French speaking guide (Other languages are subject to availability and can be to surcharges).
• Accommodation in shared twin room
• Entrance fees, service charge, baggage handling
• Mineral water and all service as mentioned in the itinerary
• Domestic flight/airport tax
• Meals as mentioned

• International flight to/from Cambodia
• International airport tax 25 USD per-person in Phnom Penh or Siem Reap
• Visa for enter Cambodia 20USD per-person
• Personal expenditure such as laundry, souvenir other options etc....
• Meals (lunch, dinner) quoted separately
• Any options please contact us

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