Cambodia Cuisine & Adventure

Welcome to Siem Reap. You are picked up at the airport by your local English speaking tour guide. Check in your hotel and have a short rest before you explore the treasures of Cambodia.

This afternoon, start your cycling route via the rural Cambodia with temples, rice fields, and villages on a small back road. Pass through the village of Chreav on route to the Tonle Sap Lake – the largest freshwater lake in Southeast Asia.

On the way you will stop at the ancient Wat Athvea, then continue to cycle to Phnom Krom Hill after a short rest. The temple at Phnom Krom is the best viewpoint for the huge Tonle Sap Lake. Transfer back to town. Dinner with Apsara dancing in a local restaurant. Overnight in Siem Reap. Approximately 17km cycling

Today you will join a half -day cooking class with Mrs Kethana Dunnet out of town near Banteay Srei. You will learn how to prepare Cambodian dishes and taste it yourself at this beautiful cooking center.

After lunch, continue to visit the Golden Silk Pheach Farm, a local NGO which helps to revive the ancient Khmer know-how in silk activities and provides job opportunities to more than 100 local staff. The farm area, mulberry trees and weaving ateliers can be seen as part of the guided tour.

After that, you will visit a pretty temple – Banteay Srei – “Citadel of the Women” remains the best preserved temple in Cambodia. Banteay Srei is unique and different with all other temples in Angkor Complex since it is constructed with pink sandstone. Here you can find the finest classical Khmer art. Back to Siemreap town.

Dinner at a local restaurant, where you can enjoy a friendly and warm atmosphere in an authentic Khmer hut. Overnight in Siem Reap.

After breakfast at the hotel, you will cycle over quiet back roads to Angkor Thom – the last capital of the Great Khmer Empire under the reign of Jayavarman VII. The city is surrounded by an 8m high wall. We will enter the city through the ancient South Gate, an impressive stone gate carved with Elephants and four giant faces. On each side of the entrance path is a row of 54 gods or demons is holding the sacred Naga snake.

Continue to Bayon Temple – built in the 12th century with 54 towers of faces representing provinces of the Khmer Empire. You will also visit Terrace of the Elephants and the Terrace of the Leper King. Finish the day at the famous Angkor Wat – built during the reign of King Suryavarman II in the early 12th century. Angkor Wat has more than 2,000 Apsara dancers carved in the temple and many other parts depicted legends, history and lives at the time.

Leaving Angkor Wat, we head to Ta Prohm temple the famous temple with overgrown trees over it, also where the Tomb Raider movie was filmed. Approximately 30km cycling

Today you will embark the boat trip to Tonle Sap Lake – the largest freshwater lake in South East Asia, covering 250,000 hectares in the dry season. In monsoon season, Mekong River forces the Tonle Sap River reverse its flow northwards back to the lake, spreading over the surrounding flood plain.

You will visit Kompong Phluck, passing floating houses and impressive flooded forests and have a glimpse of local’s lives on the water.

Note: From March to June, this route will be replaced by visiting the Chnong Kneas floating village due to dry season. Spend the rest of the day at your leisure/ shopping before you transfer to Siem Reap airport for your flight home.