4-Day Cambodia Highlights Tour from Siem Reap to Phnom Penh

• Welcome to Siem Reap. Upon arrival, you will meet your guide at the airport, who will assist you with your transfer to the hotel for check-in. Please note that standard check-in time is at 14:00.

• Proceed on a half-day city tour in the afternoon.

• Make your first stop at Artisans D' Angkor, a local artisan boutique established to support Cambodian arts and crafts. Discover how wood and stone carvings, lacquering, gilding, and silk paintings are created.

• Next, visit Wat Thmei, one of the killing field memorials. This small memorial stupa contains the skulls and bones of victims killed during the Khmer Rouge regime from 1975 to 1979.

• Head to the Old Market, the oldest Khmer market in Siem Reap, where you can see vendors selling souvenirs such as clothes, jewellery, and more.

• Transfer to one of the most beautiful pagodas in town, featuring French colonial architecture that reflects its history and a large garden filled with statues. Bring candles and incense sticks to the pagoda and participate in a private good luck blessing ceremony led by local monks at the temple.

Return to the hotel at the end of the day.

• Your guide will pick you up from your hotel at 8:00 am.

• Begin with a visit to the South Gate, with its huge statues depicting the churning of the ocean of milk, and see the ancient capital of Angkor Thom, built in the late 12th century.

• Head onwards to Bayon Temple, unique for its 54 towers decorated with over 200 smiling faces of Avalokitesvara. Baphuon resembles an artificial mountain and has recently re-opened after years of restoration.

• Following this, you may visit the Royal Enclosure, the Elephants Terrace, and the Terrace of the Leper King.

• Continue to the famous Temple of Ta Prohm, the modern name of the temple at Angkor, built in the late 12th to early 13th centuries. However, it is probably even more famous as the filming location for the Tomb Raider movie.

• Enjoy a Khmer feast for lunch at a local restaurant.

• Continue after lunch to the magnificent Angkor Wat Temple, Angkor Park's most revered temple and the largest religious monument in the world. Inside the temple, the walls are covered with breathtaking stone carvings and bas-reliefs. Your guide will explain the stories in exquisite detail and give you ample time to explore both the inner and outer grounds of the temple.

• Experience a special final evening in Siem Reap with a performance of the Cambodian Traditional Circus. More than just a circus, Phare performers use theatre, music, dance, and modern circus arts to tell uniquely Cambodian stories - historical, folk, and modern. The young circus artists will astonish you with their energy, emotion, enthusiasm, and talent.

• Transfer to the bus station or airport for your departure to Phnom Penh City. By bus, the journey takes approximately 6 hours, and by flight, it takes 1 hour.

• Arrive in Phnom Penh, where your guide will transfer you to the hotel for check-in. Please note that check-in time is at 14:00.

• Visit Wat Phnom, a beautiful hilltop temple with manicured gardens, in the afternoon.

• Continue to the Royal Palace and Silver Pagoda, named for the 5,000 silver tiles that cover the pagoda's floor and known for its collection of gold, silver, crystal, and bronze Buddha statues.

• Wind down the day with a sunset cruise on the Mekong River before going to dinner.

• Enjoy dinner at a local restaurant before returning to the hotel.

• Enjoy your final breakfast at the hotel.

• Take a walk or pick up some last-minute souvenirs before your midday check-out.

• Meet your driver, who will assist with your luggage and take you to the airport for your departure flight.