Day 1: Phnom Penh
Phnom Penh (Lunch)
Transfer to the hotel. Lunch in a typical restaurant. We leave to visit the classic part of the capital of Cambodia with a visit to the National Museum, which preserves the masterpieces of Khmer sculpture and art from the 5th to the 13th century. We move on to the nearby Royal Palace with the Throne Room, where the sovereign still grants his audiences today. The excursion ends by visiting the Silver Pagoda complex. Back to the hotel.
Day 2: Siem Reap
Phnom Penh - Siem Reap (Breakfast, Lunch)
After breakfast departure to Siem Reap. You cross the typical Cambodian landscape, made up of rice fields, palm groves and small villages. Lunch in a typical restaurant. Visit to a unique village of its kind, as it floats on the waters of the great Tonle Sap lake. The fishermen's houses but also the school, the church, the emporiums and public offices, everything floats and can be moved according to the fishing seasons, which follow the monsoons. Arrive Siem Reap and transfer to hotel.
Day 3: Siem Reap
Siem Reap (Breakfast, Lunch)
Visit the fortified citadel of Angkor Thom and the iconic Bayon with its bas-reliefs of enormous realism. Afterwards we move on to the Baphuon, the ancient Royal Palace with the Phimeanakas, the Terrace of the Elephants and the Terrace of the Leper King. Lunch in a typical restaurant. Afternoon dedicated to the visit of Angkor Wat and Ta Prohm. The Angkor complex is the undisputed masterpiece of Khmer architecture and art and has always been a symbol of the Cambodian people. Even more suggestive is the Ta Prohm, where enormous roots envelop the galleries, shrubs sprout from the roofs of each building and the visitor is no longer able to distinguish the work of man from the creations of nature. Back to the hotel.
Day 4: Siem Reap
Siem Reap (Breakfast, Lunch)
Visit the temples of Prasat Kravan, Banteay Kdei and Srah Srang. One of the oldest sacred buildings in Angkor is the Prasat Kravan from 921, dedicated to the cult of the god Vishnu. We then move on to the Banteay Kdei temple with the Citadel of the monks' cells. In the final you reach Srah Srang, the pool of public ablutions. Lunch in a typical restaurant. Visit the Mebon, Pre Rup, Prah Khan and Neak Pean temples, four important and different locations in terms of style and meaning. The Mebon, built on an artificial islet in the center of the eastern Baray basin, was dedicated to the worship of the god Shiva. The Pre Rup, the grandiose temple-mountain, with warm ocher colors, was used for royal funerals. The grandiose Buddhist sanctuary of Prah Khan, surrounded by jungle, was built to celebrate a won war while the enigmatic and evocative sacred basins of Neak Pean, the "entwined serpents", represent an existing lake in Hindu mythology. Back to the hotel.
Day 5: Battambang
Siem Reap - Battambang (Breakfast, Lunch)
You leave Siem Reap heading west on the modern road that cuts through the plains alternating with limestone massifs such as that of Preah Netr Preah from which the precious pink sandstone is skilfully worked by local craftsmen. You reach Sisophon and continue south to Battambang. Lunch in a typical restaurant. In the afternoon we continue in a beautiful rural setting up to Ek Phnom, a suggestive Khmer sanctuary from the first half of the 11th century. Then continue with a visit to Phnom Sanpeu to arrive in Battambang at sunset. Arrival and transfer to the hotel.
Day 6: Phnom Penh
Battambang - Siem Reap (Breakfast, Lunch)
In the morning visit the market and the colonial part of the city. We then continue with the excursion along the left bank of the Stung Sangker up to the hill on which stands the Khmer temple of Phnom Banan, from the end of the 12th century. Lunch in a typical restaurant. We then continue in the direction of Phnom Penh passing through Udong which was the capital of Cambodia from the 17th to the 19th century. Short stop at the village of Kompong Louang where the ancient traditions of silver working still live. Arrive in Phnom Penh in the late afternoon.
Day 7: Phnom Penh
Phonm Penh (Breakfast, Lunch)
Half day visit of Phonm Penh, starting from Tuol Sleng, a high school which was the headquarters of the political police under the Pol Pot regime. We continue with the sacred hill of Wat Phnom and Wat Ounalom, the pagoda where the great Venerable
Day 8:
Phonm Penh (Breakfast)
Transfer to the airport.
