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Cambodia from Phnom Penh to Battambang and Angor
7 days 6 nights

Codice: CAM_01_B

Itinerary:

Day 1 - Phnom Penh.
Arrival and after immigration and customs formalities, meeting with the guide. Transfer and accommodation
with check in at 14:00 or earlier if rooms are available. Start of the visit
with the temple that gives its name to the city, Wat Phnom: located on
top of a hill, frequented by the faithful who go here to pray and be
predicted by the many fortune tellers, fortune tellers and fortune tellers.
Continue to the Toul Sleng, a tragic prison museum testimony of the
bloody regime of the Khmer Rouge and the genocide perpetrated against
the Cambodian population itself, guilty of being able to read and write,
wear glasses, be teachers, doctors, professionals, speak foreign
languages, it is estimated that about three million out of twelve people
were tortured and killed over the four years up to 1979. Time permitting, the central market or the Russian
one will also be seen.
Lunch in a local restaurant and free dinner. - Overnight.

Day 2 - Battambang – (Bantey Chmar – Sisophon) – Siem Reap.
Breakfast in hotel.
Departure for Battabang, the second largest city in Cambodia, also called the Capital of the West. You will
be able to see, at one of the villages along the road, how the
technique of silver working has been handed down for generations.
At Kampong Chnang we will travel along a stretch of the river that
leads to the Tonle Sap, seeing how life unfolds in the floating villages
formed by countless boats, houses and various floating structures.
Continuation to Battambang, and arrival in the afternoon. The city
still has its very provincial atmosphere and is characterized by a
mixed architecture between colonial and local, where people still live
according to the customs of the traditional peasant culture. Situation
permitting, sometimes the visit is not possible for technical reasons,
you will have the opportunity to try a singular form of local transport,
the Bamboo Train, by climbing aboard a small platform, precisely
made of bamboo and anchored to wheels that allow it to travel on the rails of what was once a railway line,
now in disuse, all driven by a small but powerful engine. If time permits, we proceed to Ek Phnom, a
suggestive Khmer sanctuary dating back to the first half of the 11th century and exemplary for
understanding Angkorian architecture.
Lunch in a local restaurant and free dinner. - Overnight.

Day 3 - Phnom Penh – Battambang B,L.
Breakfast in hotel.
Departure for Siem Reap by public scheduled boat from the pier which is
located in the town center. The boat departs following the Sangke River.
We continue on the river through splendid and unprecedented scenarios,
villages, pagodas, fishermen who use a very particular technique through
nets raised by a sort of pendulum catapults, mangroves and anything else
you can imagine or not, in a lush and uncontaminated nature. You arrive at
the splendid floating village of Prek Toal where it will be possible, if required
and conditions permit, to visit a floating church and the school moored

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