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Having planned your trip to Siem Reap, Angkor improperly would result in chaotic situations, cost a fortune for no reasons, and missing the important things to do and see. With this Complete Siem Reap Experience – Exquisite Tour Expert Tips whose home just inside the Angkor archaeological site, the experts of SAM INSPIRE would like to give you an idea of how to plan the most appropriate sightseeings and duration in Siem Reap, Angkor, Cambodia.
This Complete Siem Reap Experience Tour Plan is for a minimum four day itinerary in just a single Siem Reap destination. Therefore, it is recommended that you better to spare their Arrival and Departure days as additional.
Nevertheless, we are not sure who are reading this travel tips, without a good tour guide to lead the trips, not matter how good your plans are, there will be still a big missing!
Here are the program highlights:
Day 01 – Arrival in Siem Reap. Please bear in mind that the new airport located at least one hour drive. The immigration and custom clearance check would take at least thirty minutes until you are able to see your awaited Meet&Greet services.
Day 02 – Morning visit Angkor National Museum. It is always best to have a great warmup and cool introduction to the destination, culture and history in a glance. Angkor National Museum is digitalized museum with screen and self-served audioguide where they could visualize things much and most effective. The visit would last for at least two hours. Have a proper lunch at your own place. In the afternoon, visit Rolous temple group including Bakong temple, Preah Kou temple, and Lo Lei temple. These temples are the early Angkian temples which is good to give you an impression and inspiration to explore more.
Option: Visit APOPO HeroRats which is a humanitarian organization to Save Lives By Training Rats To Rid The World Of Landmines And Tuberculosis. You understand how the work proceed and also a chance to interact with the rats.
Dinner with Cambodian Traditional Dance Performances. This is crucial to watch, the Apsara Dance featuring in one of the performances are depicted on many base relief at the temples.
Day 03 – Sunrise watching and in-depth visit to Angkor Wat temple. Angkor Wat is the main and must-to-visited temple among over 400 temples in Siem Reap. It is a famous spot to view the Sun rising over the five temple towers. With your tour guide, you will find a crow-avoiding spot for your wonderful picture angles at this temple.
Optional (Tuk Tuk breakfast), by giving a hand to SAM ISPIRE experts, organizing and setting up your breakfast on a local Tuk Tuk is a great experience.
After your breakfast, continue to explore Angkor Thom temple group, Ta Prohm by adapted mountain bicycles. Angkor temple complex are sheltered with jungles and forests, jungle trails are cool which is a way to escape from the vehicle fume and also take part to reduce the Carbon dioxide emission in the temple complex. Angkor Thom temples themself is a huge complex with Bayon, the four-gigantic-faces temple, the Baphuon, the Pyramid temple and many more to see. Whereas, Ta Prohm (explore as a Hollywood star) is the jungle temple with big roots of the trees where it is famous for the Hollywood movies stared by Angelina Jolie called Lara Croft: Tomb Raider.
Late lunch in town. Late afternoon free and easy on your own.
Optional: Massage to release your stress, pain, and tiredness with the skillful hands of the local masseurs. Motor quad ride to watch sunset in the Paddy Rice field. Take one of them, or combine the two together.
Day 04 – Adventure to the Sacred ancient Kulen mountain and Waterfall and visit Banteay Srei most intricate carving temple. Today, you will be bringing back to the earliest era of Angkor foundation. You go further out on a mountain which is a buried ancient city where there are 1000s of Linga carvings on the Riverbed and huge waterfall. Having a picnic on the huts by the river to experience how local enjoy their holiday away from home.
This trip hard experience could designed to a harder scale with trekking and ride on the backseat of a 125-cc-motorcycle with driver. This extension plan will begin after driving up the hill to reach the starting point where your local motorcycle drivers are waiting. Ride as passenger of the motorcycle, where he will drive from Anlong Thom village passing through abandoned 9th century temples, Peung Eisei, Sompeu Thleay, Srah Domrei (elephant statues) Batcave, Wat Preah Kral. Trek and drive as you enjoy to reach the picnic site where you will enjoy your BBQ lunch with drinks. Enjoy the visit of the river of the thousand lingas of Shiva, and swim the massive Waterfalls of Kulen mountain.
After either the soft or hard experience, board your A/C vehicle and drive down the mountain. On the way back visit, Banteay Srey temple, so-call, a lady temple which represent the precious work invested into the details and care of how the construction work are put to this temple.
Day 05 – Floating village of Mechrey lunch and Artisan d’Angkor. Looking back to the past few days, you have really done a lot of exercises. However, today is still special, we always quote “Your Siem Reap trip will never complete, unless a visit to a floating village is made.” Even though, there are at least five Tonle Sap flooding and floating villages in Siem Reap. Our most recommended village is Mechrey (Mechirai) which is the most authentic floating village and the least visited one. Here, you will discover how amazingly sad people live on moving and floating houses for generations and generation. The visit would take at least two hours. After the visit drive back in town for a proper lunch in a local restaurant. After lunch visit the finest Cambodian handicraft workshop and selling shop where you will be guided to all the stages of each item production.
Optional: Tethered Balloon ride, Angkor Treetop Zipline. This afternoon, you have a looser program, therefore may want to anticipate in these two optional high ride activities. Fly like a Gibbon with Zipline and Fly like Bird with Angkor Balloon.
Day – 06 Free till departure
Today, depending on your flight, to wake up late and recharge to be ready for your next destination or long haul flight back home. Please make sure to allow at least three hours to set off from your hotel before your flight time.
End of your amazing Complete Siem Reap Experience
Well done, we believe you have already enjoy the planning. So do the trip, this planning are unique from the experts’ experience and knowledge of operating.
We are at SAM INSPIRE more than happy to listen to your comments and help you to deliver this trip planning to the most satisfied outcome.
