Cambodia

Essential Cambodia in Private: Angkor, Tonlé Sap and Battambang

The country's great sites in eleven days, with your own French-speaking guide

Cambodia

Essential Cambodia in Private: Angkor, Tonlé Sap and Battambang

A private tour of the essentials of Cambodia: Skun and Phnom Santuk, Sambor Prei Kuk, the lake village of Kampong Khleang on the Tonlé Sap, two days at Angkor (Preah Khan, Ta Prohm, Angkor Thom, Banteay Samre, Banteay Srei and a silk farm), then Battambang and the return to Phnom Penh through Pursat and Kampong Chhnang provinces. 3* and 4* hotels (local rating), French-speaking guides.

When

Nov to March

Price

From 2 372€ excl. flights

(based on 2 people sharing)

How long

8 nights

Ideal length

On to Angkor

Days 1-4

From Phnom Penh to Siem Reap via Sambor Prei Kuk and the Tonlé Sap.

Day 1

Flight to Cambodia

Flight to Phnom Penh. Dinner and night on board.

Day 2

Arrival in Phnom Penh

Welcome at the airport and transfer to the hotel. In the early evening, meet your guide.

Day 3

Skun and Phnom Santuk – Kampong Thom

A stop at Skun market, known for its unusual speciality, fried tarantula, then up to the pagoda on Phnom Santuk hill. In the afternoon, the pre-Angkorian temples of Sambor Prei Kuk, a UNESCO site.

Day 4

Tonlé Sap and Kampong Khleang – Siem Reap

Drive to the Tonlé Sap, the largest lake in Southeast Asia, and the village of Kampong Khleang, with its stilt houses, still away from mass tourism. A walk, then a local boat on the lake, before Siem Reap.

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Angkor and Battambang

Days 5-11

Two days in the temples, then the colonial town of Battambang.

Day 5

Angkor: Preah Khan, Ta Prohm and Angkor Thom

By tuk-tuk to Preah Khan temple, then Ta Prohm, where stone and the roots of century-old silk-cotton trees intertwine. In the afternoon, the great royal city of Angkor Thom and the faces of the Bayon, then Angkor Wat.

Day 6

Banteay Samre, silk and Banteay Srei

Across the countryside, among traditional houses and coconut palms, to the temple of Banteay Samre, then the Golden Silk Pheach silk farm and its Khmer weaving workshop, and the temple of Banteay Srei, the 'citadel of women', known for the finesse of its carvings.

Day 7

Villages and basketry – Battambang

Drive to a small village among the fields to see basket-weaving and local life, with a fresh coconut, then through countryside lined with sugar palms to Battambang.

Day 8

Battambang by tuk-tuk

By tuk-tuk through the colonial centre of Battambang: Psah Nat market, the former governor's residence, Damrei Sos pagoda, then local workshops, including a family of blacksmiths.