Siem Reap – Battambang – Phnom Penh 7 days / 6 nights

In the morning, after breakfast at the hotel, our tour guide and driver will pick you up and transfer to visit the UNESCO World Heritage site of Angkor. The tour starts from the South gate of Angkor Thom, the last capital city of the Khmer Empire, built by the great Khmer king Jayavaraman VII at the end of the 12th century. It covers an area of 9 km2 surrounded by walls and moats. Inside the city there are several temples: the Bayon, the Baphoun, the Royal Palace, the Terrace of the Elephant and Terrace of the Leper King. Later continue to the Ta Prohm temple, lost in the jungle and covered by tropical trees. The temple was featured in the movie “Tomb Raider”, and it makes visitors feel like Henri Mahout, the first adventurer to rediscover Angkor temples by accident in 1860.
Transfer to a restaurant for lunch (not included) and after lunch visit the largest temple in the world and one of the wonders of the world: Angkor Wat. Watch the sunset in Angkor, and then return to the hotel.
Overnight in Siem Reap.
Meals: Breakfast

After breakfast at the hotel transfer to visit some of the most beautiful temples in Angkor Archaeological Park (which contains about 250 temples in an area of 401 km2): Preah Kahn, Neak Pean, Ta Som, Pre Rup, Bantey Samre. Lunch in a local restaurant (not included).
In the afternoon visit Banteay Srey, a true jewel of Khmer art, built in pink sandstone; on the way back stop to visit a village with traditional Khmer houses and observe the sugar cane production. Return to the hotel and free time for dinner.
Overnight in Siem Reap.
Meals: Breakfast

In the morning after breakfast departure from the hotel and transfer to visit the first temples built by the Khmer empire in 9th century, the Roluos group. Explore Lo Lei, Preah Ko and Bakong temple, a pyramid-shaped temple with 5 levels, then visit the Roluos local market. Lunch in a local restaurant (not included). After lunch visit the largest lake in Southeast Asia, Tonle Sap, which has been listed by UNESCO as a Natural Biosphere in 1997. Take a cruise to visit the floating villages and experience the daily life of the Khmer people living in floating houses and bamboo rafts on the lake: see the floating school, the floating market, a floating church and the freshwater mangrove eco-system that surrounds the lake. Back to the city and visit the Artisan d’Angkor.
Overnight in Siem Reap.
Meals: Breakfast

In the morning, after breakfast, departure from Siem Reap to Battambang. Upon arrival in Battambang check in at the hotel and start the tour of the city. Battambang is the second largest city in Cambodia, known as the Capital of the West; it still retains a provincial attitude and it’s characterised by the colonial architecture and the laid-back atmosphere of a traditional rural community. Admire the wooden houses (some of them more than 100-year old) that pass from one generation to the next. Then, ride the Bamboo Train: a small bamboo-made platform on wheels that travels on wobbly rails left from an abandoned rail-road, propelled by a small but powerful motor. Lunch break (not included). Visit the 12th century temples of Phnom Banan and Phnom Sampov and the famous natural bat cave in Phnom Sampov: every day at evening thousands of bats fly out of the cave to come back early in the morning. You will be amazed by the show of the long line of flying bats. Overnight in Battambang.
Meals: Breakfast

In the morning after breakfast departure from Battambang to Phnom Penh, the capital city of Cambodia. Along the way stop to visit the beautiful Odong, that used to be the capital city in the 16th century, before Phnom Penh. Stop for lunch (not included) along the way, then proceed to the capital. Overnight in Phnom Penh.
Meals: Breakfast

In the morning after breakfast transfer to visit Cheung Ek Killing fields, the historical site near Phnom Penh where the Khmer Rouge regime perpetrated mass killings from 1975 to 1979. Our professional tour guide will explain you more about the place and the history behind it; after that continue to visit the Toul Sleng, the Genocide Museum that testifies the bloody Khmer Rouge regime and the tragic genocide perpetrated against the Cambodian population itself, guilty of being able to read and write, wear glasses, be teachers, doctors, professionals, or just being able to speak foreign languages; it is estimated that about three million people out of twelve were tortured and killed over four years until 1979. Then visit the Wat Phnom, the birthplace of Phnom Penh, set on top of a hill and popular with devotees who gather here to pray and consult the fortune-tellers, palm readers and soothsayers. Lunch in a restaurant (not included), then visit the Royal Palace, the Silver Pagoda and the Central Market, which was built during the Colonial days by French architects. Transfer to Phnom Penh International Airport according to your scheduled flight.
Meals: Breakfast