Round trip: Intimate Angkor programme
Duration: 6 Days - 5 Nights
Itinerary:
Day 1: WELCOME TO SIEM REAP, CAMBODIA ( D,G )
Upon arrival at Siem Reap International airport in the city of World Heritage, Angkor Wat. Our guide and driver will meet and pick you up at the airport then transfer to hotel for check-in.
Dinner at local restaurant and overnight in Siem Reap.
Day 2: SIEM REAP - ROLOUS GROUP ( B,L,D,G )
Breakfast at hotel we journey the earliest capitals in the Angkor area, Hariharilaya, now known as Roluos. We begin to visit temple of Lolei, originally set on an island in the centre of the Indratataka baray (reservoir). We continue to Preah Ko (sacred cow), named in honour of Shiva’s mount, Nandin. This temple owes more to the pre-Angkorian brick sanctuaries of Cambodia’s earlier Chenla empire. Finally, we visit Bakong, the earliest of the temple mountains, It is a giant pyramid, its cardinal points marked by giant elephants. We climb to the summit for views over the surrounding countryside.
In afternoon, we continue to the large stone temple of Eastern Mebon, originally located on an island in the centre of the now dry Eastern Baray (reservoir). We visit the royal bathing pond of Sra Srang. And we walk to the first great Buddhist monastery in Cambodia, Banteay Kdei, built in 1186 by Jayavarman VII who was a Mahayana Buddhist. And we return to Siem Reap via the temple of Kravanh. Built entirely from brick and dating from 921, inside the small towers are some of the best brick carving found anywhere in the Khmer empire. We journey to the mountain temple of Phnom Bakheng to see the sunset cast its soft light over Angkor Wat.
Dinner at local restaurant and overnight in Siem Reap.
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