VIETLAND HOLIDAYS

You will arrive in Phnom Penh City as the biggest city in Cambodia with its population of 1.7 mill people.

The guide and driver will pick up and take you to hotel. On your arrival, you will start a small city tour to the highlights of the city:

- Have a Xich Lo ride or Cyclo Ride in the city

- Visit the inside of Cambodia's cultural heritage as  the ROYAL PALACE, still the official residence of King NorodomSihamoi and the adjacent SILVER PAGODA, also known as the Pagoda of the Emerald Buddha. Overnight in Phnom Penh

In the morning , We will visit TuolSleng Museum (S21) .The Killing Fields of Choeung,
The Killing Fields Museum of Cambodia,
Today, S-21 Prison is known as the Tuol Sleng Museum of Genocide. Inside the gates, it looks like any high school;

The Killing Fields are a number of sites in Cambodia where collectively more than a million people were killed and buried by the Khmer Rouge regime, during its rule of the country from 1975 to 1979

In the afternoon, you will have a tour to the National Museum for Cambodia History & culture.

We start to visit the Wat Phnom as symbol of the city, before heading west past the National Library and Hotel Le Royal.  We pass Phnom Penh train station before winding our way down to PsarThmei, the leading market in the city.  We then snake through some of the smaller back streets, including 178 St, brimming with art shops, and Bohemian 240 St with its cafes and boutiques, and pass the Independence Monument of Cambodia built in 1958 for Cambodia's independence from France in 1953. Overnight in Phnom Penh

Today, after your breakfast, you check out and have a long trip to Kampong Thom as your next city in Cambodia ( the total distance is about 250Km), on your journey, we will stop at Kampong Cham for some landscape here.

Visit some highlights in Kampong Cham (120Km from Phnom Penh).Kampong Cham is a lively port on the banks of the Mekong River with some good examples of colonial-era architecture. After visiting the LOCAL MARKET and exploring the town, travel in to the countryside to PHNOM PROS (Man Hill) and PHNOM SREI (Woman Hill). According to local tradition, two teams of men and women competed to build a stupa on the peak of each hill before dawn. After being tricked into thinking that daybreak had already come, the men lost the competition and, as a result, forever after had to be the ones to approach the women for their hands in marriage. Continue to WAT NOKOR TEMPLE, a thriving modern-day monastery founded on a 11th century Mahayana Buddhist shrine.

AFTER your lunch in Kampong Cham, we keep going to Kampong Thom City  for overnight and dinner here. Overnight in Kampong Thom

After your breakfast, you check out: The distance from Kampong Thom to Siem Reap is about 150Km ( 2 hours by car)

Travelling just outside Kampong Thom to see key archeological sites, starting with SAMBOR PREI KUK, perhaps the most important grouping of pre-Angkorian monuments in Cambodia. Before the rise of the Angkor, this was the capital of Chenla during the 6th century, known as Isanapura; today, over 100 small temple ruins sit peacefully in a forest setting. Explore the main central complex and gain an insight into the early architectural styles of Cambodia. Afterwards, continue to the modern-day shrines of WAT ANDRI, a thriving monastery, and climb the 980 steps of the holy mountain PHNOM SANTUK, enjoying the colorful, somewhat eclectic shrine at the peak as well as lovely views over the surrounding countryside.

Drive straight to Siem Reap after your lunch, check in hotel when you arrive in . Overnight in Siem Reap

Drive about 15 Km from your hotel to Angkor Complex for 2 main sites

ANGKOR WAT is the national symbol and the highlight of any visit to Cambodia. The largest, best preserved, and most religiously significant of the Angkor temples as the crowning jewel of Khmer architecture.

Angkor Wat is stunning at any time of the day, but sunrise and sunset are especially beautiful times to watch the play of light on the stones

ANGKOR THOM

The fortified city of ANGKOR THOM covers an area of 10 square km. Enclosed by a wall and wide moats, the city includes many Angkor's most popular sights. Enter by the monumental SOUTH GATE over a causeway lined on either side by statues of demons and gods, each carrying a giant naga. Continue to the TERRACE OF THE ELEPHANTS and the TERRACE OF THE LEPER KINGS, former spaces for public ceremonies, both adorned with dramatic bas reliefs. Visit the ruined BAPHUON, ROYAL ENCLOSURE and PHIMEANAKAS before continuing to the mysterious BAYON TEMPLE. In this temple, one of the most popular and compelling in Angkor, explore the galleries of beautifully preserved bas reliefs and ascend narrow stairs to reach the central sanctuary, where you will find giant stone faces smiling enigmatically down at you from every angle.

Visit Ta Prohm

One of the most popular attractions of Angkor as much of the jungle has not been cleared and it looks very much as most of the Angkor monuments would have appeared when European explorers first stumbled across them.

Visit a temple for sunset

Watch the sun set over the Cambodian countryside from the upper terraces of an ancient Angkorian temple. Overnight in Siem Reap

Today, you have a small trip to the biggest Freshwater lake in Cambodia, Tonle Sap Lake

- In the morning, you have free time

- In the afternoon, we pick up and drive for 20Km to the lake and start a boat trip to visit some great floating villages .

We explore on a wooden boat the Tonle Sap, the Great Lake of Cambodia and its floating villages. Every year, the water level of the great lake changes from 4 to 8 m, overflowing land and forest. You will cruise around the lake and stop over at some fishing villages to see how they live on lake. Overnight in Siem Reap

Today , it is time to go home or fly out for your next trip

We take you to the airport and check in for your flight home