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Cambodia Phnom Penh and Angor

5 days 4 nights

Code: CAM_03_B

Itinerary:

Day 1: Siem Reap.
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. The visits begin with the Royal Palace and the Silver
Pagoda complex, so called for the more than five thousand silver tiles
from which the floor is made, all embellished with gifts offered to the royal
family from all over the world. We will then visit the National Museum,
built around 1918 and entirely dedicated to Khmer art. There are splendid
finds from both Angkorian and pre-Angkorian times on display, including
important statuary from Angkor itself and several everyday objects found
in various areas and historical periods. 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 out of twelve million people were tortured and killed over the four-
year period up to 1979.
Lunch in a local restaurant and free dinner. Overnight at Hotel.

Day 2 - Phnom Penh – Siem Reap.
Breakfast at the hotel. Departure from the capital passing over the Japanese bridge and heading towards
the provincial capital of Kampong Thom, located just over halfway
between Phnom Penh and Siem Reap. After about an hour there will be
a short stop in the village of Skhun, famous for its giant spiders, served,
of course, in all kinds of sauces to those who wish it. We are surrounded
by vendors who in baskets, facing the sun so as not to cool the delicious
food, offer the delicate arachnids, which can be purchased in small bags
from which they are taken and enjoyed one by one, like french fries. We
head towards Sambor Preikuk, the most important pre-Angkorian
archaeological complex in the country, the ancient capital of the kingdom
of Chenla, precursor of the Khmer one. there are more than one hundred temples of great suggestion and
rarely visited, divided into three monastery complexes: the South group of Prasat Yeay Poan, the central
group of Prasat Tor and the North group of Prasat Sambor. The latter includes the most important
buildings and an incarnation of Śhiva is dedicated. Lunch in a simple local restaurant and then almost three
hours on an excellent road. The landscapes are splendid, the scenarios reflect rice fields, villages, scenes
of real life in the Cambodian countryside, otherwise not visible if not traveling this route by land. This was
once the Royal Route, passing at Kampong Kdei on the stone bridge of Spean Praptos, dating back to
the Khmer period and built by King Jayavarman VII. Arrive in Siem Reap in the late afternoon.
Accommodation, free dinner and overnight at the hotel.

Day 3: Siem Riep.
Breakfast at the hotel. Departure for the visit to the pre-Angkorian structures of the Rolous complex,
located about 15 km from the town, towards the south-east. The Temples of Prae Ko, Bakong and Lolei
are the main and the first to have been built in the area in the 9th century, they represent the link between
the Kingdom of Chenla, whose capital is represented by what remains of Sambor Preikuk , and the new
kingdom of Angkor, marking the beginning of the culmination of Khmer power and art. Head towards the
Angkor complex and see the Prasat Kravan, the only example of a temple consisting of five towers in a
line, inside the central one it will be possible to admire one of the most beautiful decorations dedicated to
the divinity Visnu. In the afternoon, a visit to the fortified city of Angkor Thom is scheduled, passing through

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