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Angkor Discovery

Tour Code: TSTS002


Destination: Angkor Thom (Bayon, Baphuon) - Angkor Wat - sunrise - Banteay Kdei - Ta Prohm - Preah Khan - Neak Pean - Ta Som - Eastern Mebon - Pre Rup - Banteay Srei - Kobal Spean (River of Thousand Lingams) - Tonle Sap Lake with boat trip

Duration: 4 days, 3 nights


This is our basic tour including the most important temples in Angkor and the Tonle Sap Lake. In addition to "Angkor Highlights", you also visit the famous Banteay Srei temple and the River of Thousand Lingams.


ITINERARY


Day 1: Angkor Thom (South Gate - Bayon - Baphuon) - Angkor Wat

 

Pick up from your arrival point in Siem Reap ( Bus - / Boat station / airport ), transfer and check in Ta Som Guesthouse.


Enjoy your Remork (Tuk Tuk) transportation with English speaking driver and with our experienced English speaking tour guide to the nearby (15 minutes drive) Angkor Archaeological Park,UNESCO-World Heritage site since 1992.

Visit of Angkor Thom: Entering this once largest city of the world form the South Gate, you admire the street of 108 gods and devils.

Study Bayon Temple, with its famous face tours (the "smile" of Angkor) and bas reliefs from the 12th century, depicting the daily life that doesn't seem to have much changed until now.

Easy walking tour to Baphuon Temple and Phimenakas Temple. We walk further to the Terrace of Elephants and Terrace of Yama (the so called leper king) and see the fantastic reliefs.

Time for lunch in a local restaurant with good view to the historical central place of Angkor Thom. You should try the good noodle soup!


Visit of Angkor Wat

In the afternoon, with the best light, intensive visit of world famous Angkor Wat temple.

Optional: You can start your visit by riding a balloon (staying on the same place, around 15 minutes!).
Great round view. Take your best photos!

Study the fantastic base reliefs of Angkor Wat, depicting scenes of Hindu mythology (like the churning of the milk sea) and climb up to the third level of this holy place, where once only the Angkorian priests and kings have worshiped their gods. Enjoy the great round view and take your time for meditation on a quiet place.

Sunset from Phnom Bakheng (very busy but famous for sunset), a lovely and quiet place to reflect your discoveries in Angkor. Transfer back to Ta Som Guesthouse for optional dinner in our Ta Som Garden Restaurant. Try the famous traditional Amok Fish, delicious and not spicy!

In the evening, optional Apsara Dance show, only 200 metres from your guest house!

Overnight in Ta Som Guesthouse in air conditioned room.


Day 2: Sunrise in Angkor Wat - Srah Srang - Walking tour through "jungle temples" Banteay Kdei and Ta Prohm - Preah Khan - Neak Pean - Eastern Mebon.


You shouldn't miss the fantastic sunrise in Angkor Wat - a unique experience!

Transfer with your Remork (Tuk Tuk) driver to Angkor Wat (no tour guide for sunrise!). After sunrise, you meet your tour guide  on the picturesque Srah Srang Water Basin. Enjoy this quite place, the former royal bath.

Start for a walking tour through Banteay Kdei and Ta Prohm, the so called "jungle temples".

This tour is easy and takes us about two hours. Enjoy to "feel" and to "smell" Angkor!

(If you want, the walking tour can be shortened up to one hour, according to your condition.)


Visit of Ta Prohm

TheEFEO (Ecole Francaise d'Extrême-Orient) has decided to keep this temple overgrown by the jungle. Enjoy the trees growing out from the temple ruins and feel like the first explorers and "discoverers" of Angkor,like Henri Mouhot or Lunet de Lajonquière.

Time for lunch in front of the gigantic Western face gopura (Western temple entrance) of Ta Prohm in a local restaurant (not included).

In the afternoon, we explore Preah Khan temple (with huge trees overgrowing the ruins). The temple complex has been ideally restored by the World Monument Fund. Learn about the enormous looting problem in Angkor and the important savegarding and preservation activities of the WMF.

Go on seeing the most important tempels on the "grand circuit", like Neak Pean (holy bath) and the Eastern Mebon (with Elephant statues).


Our special:


As Ta Som Temple gave the name to our Guesthouse and Tour Agency, the visit of this marvelous small temple is also included in this tour! Ta Som means "the ancestor", king Jayavarman VII dedicated this temple to his teacher. Enjoy the famous eastern gopura of Ta Som, which is depicted on our logo. Take your picture!

Sunset from Pre Rup or from another place (according to day 1). Transfer back to Ta Som Guesthouse, optional dinner. On this second day, you should try the traditional beef Loklak, together with a refreshing and vitalizing pineapple juice!

After your second day in the temples, you might be tired and need a good massage? We can organize traditional Khmer massage (from US$ 6 per hour, optional!).


Overnight in Ta Som Guesthouse in air conditioned room.


Day 3: Banteay Srei - Kobal Spean / River of Thousand Lingas - Banteay Samre


Enjoy an excursion in air conditioned car in the Northern part of the Angkor Archaeological Park.

On your way, you pass through picturesque landscapes with rice fields and sugar palms to another highlight of Angkor: the famous and precious Banteay Srei Temple.

Banteay Srei means "the citadel of the women" and is reknown because of its incredible sandstone carvings looking like wood. It really deserves the name "diamond of Angkor".

After having studied the different reliefs depicting scenes of Hindu mythology, we go on northwards to a holy place where in Angkorian times, thousands of Lingas (the phallus symbol of the Lord Shiva) have been carved into the riverbed, in order to fertilize the water going down to the Angkorian plain.


This place is called Kbal Spean or the River of Thousand Lingas. Easy Walking tour (about one hour) through tropical dry forest and see the different places of carvings in the riverbed. Your experienced English speaking tour guide explains you the meaning of the interesting carvings.

Time for lunch in a local restaurant in Kobal Spean (not included). On your way back to Siem Reap, you also visit  Banteay Samre Temple. In the evening, enjoy a classical Apsara dance show.

Dinner buffet included.

Overnight in Ta Som Guesthouse in air conditioned room.


Day 4: Tonle Sap Lake - Chong Kneas
 

Transfer by air conditioned car to Tonle Sap Lake. Enjoy a boat trip (about two hours) on the Tonle Sap Lake, the greatest fresh water reservoir with the highest biodiversity in the world. See the floating village of Chong Kneas -  rice cultivation, fishing farm - crocodile farm and life with and on the water.

Visit of  Artisans d'Angkor.

After the tour, return to Ta Som Guesthouse.


End of package tour "Angkor Discovery".

You can add more nights in Ta Som Guesthouse and choose among our interesting day trip. To complete your Angkor experience, we highly recommend the "Bird Sanctuary Prek Toal", where you will feel like in a Hitchcock's movie and our "Countryside Tour" where you go deeper into the way of living of the locals (rice fields, sugar palms, water buffaloes). This life doesn't seem to have much changed since Angkorian times


PACKAGE TOURS PRICE


Groups

2 persons

3 persons

4 persons

Price per person

$166.00

$146.00

$116.00


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ACCOMMODATION

Three nights in Ta Som Guesthouse in air-conditioned room with private ensuite bathroom, cold/hot water, minibar.


The price included:

• Pick up from bus station and transfer to Ta Som Guesthouse 
• Mineral water (1 bottle per person per day)
• Transportation by REMORK (Tuk-Tuk) for full day (eight hours) on first day along "small circuit", on second day along "grand circuit",
• Transportation by air-conditioned car on day 3 to Banteay Srei and Kobal Spean, on day 4 to Tonle Sap Lake
• Experienced English speaking, licensed tour guide on first, second and third day, according to tour program
• Walking tour inside Angkor Thom (about one hour)
• Walking tour through "jungle temples" Banteay Kdei and Ta Prohm (about two hours).
• Boat trip on Tonle Sap Lake on day 3 (about two hours)
• The taxation of ferry dock at Chong Khneas floating village
• Accommodation for three nights in Ta Som Guesthouse,in air conditioned room with private ensuite bathroom with cold/hot water,minibar.
• Buffet dinner & Apsara dance show at Kulen II restaurant (on day 3)
• Transfer to bus station in the Siem Reap city area.


The price does NOT include

• Personal expenses and others not stated above.
• The entrance fee for Angkor Archaeological Park (ticket).


        Please note: As you might wish to add more visits of Angkor Archaeological Park,
        the entrance fee for Angkor (ticket) is not included.
        This allows you to decide by yourself, which ticket is best for you:
        1 day ticket   US-Dollar 37
        3 days ticket  US-Dollar 62
        7 days ticket  US-Dollar 72


Price information

• The price is in US-Dollar per person.
• The price for 2 persons is based on accommodation in one double room or one twin room.
• The price for 3 persons is based on accommodation in triple room.
• The price for 4 persons is based on accommodation in two double rooms or two twin rooms.

Book now for 2 persons, 3 persons, 4 persons

We arrange this tour for one person and also more than 5 persons in the reasonable price.


Please contact us:
E-mail: info@tasomguesthouse.com (office)

Mr. Mang Meng: mangmeng0902@hotmail.com (Sale & Reservation Manager)

Mobile: (+855) 12 830 170 (Mr. Mang Meng)

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