Siem Reap: 4 Days/3 Nights
Ref: REP-43
Day 1: Visit Small - Big Circuit (L, D)
- You
will be met at airport by professional tour guide and transferred from airport
to the hotel.
- Visit Prasat Kravan, a brick temple built in 10th century, Srah
Srang (royal bath), Banteay Kdei, and a Buddhist monastic complex
built in 12th century. Then visit an amazing view of Ta prohm Temple
which has been deliberately left as it was discovered. In Ta Prohm kapok trees
clasp the sanctuaries in their mighty roots; and Ta Keo - an unfinished state
temple for unknown reason. Ta Keo temple was built in early 11th century
by King Jayavarman V and dedicated to god Shiva.
- Lunch at local restaurant.
- Afternoon, visit Pre Rup temple, a classic example of
temple-mountain, and the last without continuous galleries; Eastern Mebon, Ta
som, Neak Pean, a unique ancient hospital built in the reign of king
Jayavarman VI (1181-1220) which has been seen as a representation of Anavatapta,
a miraculous lake in Himalayas that cures all illnesses; and Preah Khan,
a large temple built on the site of battle that ended in Ankor’s downfall at the
land of the Cham. Preah Khan was also really a kind of university, housing a
number of masters and students.
- Dinner with traditional show at local restaurant
- Accommodation at the hotel.
Day 2: Visit Distant Temples (B, L, D)
- Breakfast at the hotel
- Visit Kbal Spean, about 50 km northeast of Siem Reap. Walking up the
Kbal Spean hill about 1800 m along a passage through the jungle you will get a
river and see many lingas elaborately caved on the riverbed. So the river is
also known as a “River of a Thousand Lingas”. Following the river down, there
are some carvings of Vishnu and Shiva with his wife Uma and five-meter high
Waterfall.
- Lunch Picnic at Kbal Spean.
- On the way back from Kbal Spean, visit Banteay Srei temple, a tiny
temple complex consider by many visitors to be the highest achievement in art
and architecture of the Classic Angkor civilization. The glory of Banteay Srei
is the beauty of its sculpture and decoration. The pink sandstone used in its
buildings makes this temple more beautiful.
- Dinner at local restaurant.
- Accommodation at the hotel.
Day 3: Visit Angkor Wat - Angkor Thom (B, L, D)
- Breakfast in the hotel
- Visit Angkor Wat, the most balanced, the most harmonious, and the most
perfect Khmer temple. It shows Khmer art, which reached the height of it glory
in the 12th century. The temple is a temple-mountain and was built by king
Suryavrman II and dedicated to god Vishnu.
- Lunch at local restaurant.
- Afternoon, visit south gate of Angkor Thom with two rows of its huge
statues of demons and gods depicting the churning of the ocean of milk arranged
on both sides of stone bridge and Bayon temple, a forest of heads, built
in late of12th century by king Jayavarman VI as a Buddhist state temple. Then,
visit terrace of elephant, which used to be a base for the king’s grand
audience hall; Terrace of Leper king supposed that it was a terrace housed the
royal crematory.
- Climb Bakheng hill to have bird’s-eye view of sunset, Angkor Wat and
western Baray.
- Dinner in local restaurant.
- Accommodation at the hotel.
Day 4: Visit Floating Village - Les Artisans d’Angkor (B, L)
- Breakfast in the hotel
- Visit floating village on Tonle Sap Lake, a biggest fresh water
lake in south-east Asia. Most people (90%) are fishermen living in their wooden
houses built on small boats and rafts. Because of flood during rainy season they
move their houses many times a year depending on water level.
- Visit Local Market.
- Lunch in local restaurant.
- Afternoon, visit silk farm of Les Artisans d’Angkor in Puok,
where you will visit silk process begun on raw silk threads: The artisans treat
and dye the silk, prepare the weaving looms and weave following improved
traditional methods. Traditional "Hol" patterns are precisely and meticulously
prepared. Patterns are successively tied on the weft and the silk is dyed,
showing geometric or floral patterns.
- Transfer to Siem Reap airport and end of service