Cambodia Family Holiday

Welcome to Siem Reap, your private guide will meet with you at the airport and take you to the hotel for check-in. In your free time, you can stroll around the streets of Siem Reap and explore the city.

After breakfast, you will start to visit Angkor Thom, the last capital of the Khmer Empire, which was a fortified city enclosing the residence of priests, officials of the palace, and the military, as well as buildings for administering the ancient kingdom.  Next, we travel to visit Bayon Temple located at the center of Angkor Thom City. It is known for the 216 giant mysterious faces carved on the 54 towers, each posing a differing mysterious smile, keeping watch of each compass point. On the walls of the galleries are many bas-reliefs depicting scenes of everyday life, great battles, and military processions during the Angkor period and Phimean Akas, Elephant and Leper King Terraces. 

During the visit, you also have the chance for a friendly talk with the monks and nuns at a nearby pagoda and experience the beauty and tradition of a Buddhist monk blessing ceremony during this popular tour in Siem Reap. Your friendly guide will share how these blessings clean karma, create happiness, and breed good luck as you watch monks chant, sing, and pour water in celebration.

In the afternoon, we continue to visit Taprohm and Angkor Wat. Unlike most of the temples of Angkor, Ta Prohm has been largely left to the clutches of the living jungle. It shows the dynamic interaction between nature and man-made art. Whereas, the legendary Angkor Wat is visually, architecturally, and artistically breathtaking. It is the world's largest religious monument and a masterpiece that showcases the pinnacle of Khmer Art. Its beauty and state of preservation are unrivaled; its artistic distinctiveness is as fine as that of the Taj Mahal. It is a massive three-tiered pyramid crowned by five lotus-like towers rising 65 meters from ground level. Angkor Wat is the centerpiece of any visit to the temples of Angkor. 

Today is a chance to make a difference and see so much more. Your chance to really see what real life is like in a Cambodian Village. We will start our trip toward a local village by driving through local villages, passing rice plantations and herds of cows or buffalo. We are happy to stop along the way allowing you to capture some great photo opportunities. 

Arriving at the Village, we meet our host family for the day and we embark on an Ox cart to visit the Khmer Village and enjoy the view of the rice field and lots of palm trees with great fresh air. This tour program provides them with a sustainable stream of income and creates opportunities for the entire village. Life in a Cambodian village revolves around the seasons. Rice planting makes way for harvest and then rice sorting and husking. We will take a bull cart to go around the villages, rice fields, and lines of palm trees before boarding a boat on Tonlesap, the biggest freshwater lake in South East Asia. Enjoy the bustling life of local people in floating villages with floating schools, floating restaurants, and even floating hospitals. In the afternoon transfer to visit Artisan D'Angkor and Old Market.

Your full-day Battambang will start with a hotel pick-up from your hotel in Siem Reap. You will take a ride on the traditional Bamboo Train, a bamboo platform laid over 2 sets of wheels on a single track. In the old days, this was used to transport goods between Battambang and Phnom Penh and was a typical mode of transport for farmers and villagers. Today, it takes you through the beautiful countryside to a little village you can explore on foot before returning to your starting point. 

Then, you will visit Wat Banan Temple, you will climb the 365 stairs to marvel at Wat Banan, an Angkor-era temple that sits on top of a hill close to the Sanker River. Banana is seldom frequented by tourists and outside of Cambodian holidays it is likely that you may be the only visitor. Continue your visit to The Killing Cave of Phnom Sampeau (also known as Phnom Sampov), which is a place of beauty, turned tragedy, turned beauty once more. Take a truck up the steep incline to the starting point and descend into the cave with your guide, who will bring the tragic history of this place to life. Stop along the way to experience the stunning views across the valley below.

Your last stop is The Phnom Sampeau Scale. The side of a mountain leads to the 'secret bat cave' just before sunset where you will sit atop the mountain waiting for the millions of bats located inside the cave to wake. Marvel as this seemingly never-ending stream of fruit bats fly out of the cave and off into the countryside for their evening meal.

The drive from Siem Reap to Phnom Penh can be long and bumpy, but you don't have to travel by road! Opt for the scenic route with this one-way Tara Prince Cruise and experience life along the Mekong River, It's a luxurious vessel, once owned by the prince of Cambodia. Glide around Tonle Sap Lake, and tuck into a delicious lunch on board. Family-friendly Free hotel pickup and drop-off included, Snacks and Beverages included.

Today you will visit the Royal Palace. Nearside the Royal Palace is Silver Pagoda (The Emerald Buddha temple), displaying plenty of Buddha Statues that were decorated and made of diamond, emerald, gold, and silver. Travelers will proceed to visit Independence Monument which was constructed in 1954 after Cambodians took their country back from the French colony, continuing visit to National Museum, We pass through the River Front park whose scenery is much worth shooting and continue to the only one hill in town with sacred sites called Wat Phnom. Your tour will end up with a visit to the Central Market which is an Art Deco landmark of Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia. The bright yellow building completed in 1937 has a 26m high central dome, with four tall arch-roofed arms branching out diagonally across the block, creating vast hallways housing countless stalls and all kinds of goods.

Relax until your driver escorts you from Phnom Penh to Sihanoukville. 

Day at leisure. Relax at your hotel or explore the surrounding area.

Day at leisure. Relax at your hotel or explore the surrounding area.

Your driver will escort you from Sihanoukville to Phnom Penh.