5 Days in Cambodia

From Thailand to Cambodia and from there to Vietnam: Siem Riep, Angkor Wat, Phnom Pen, the Killing ﬁelds, Tradional dancers, Shopping and great restaurants.

Day 1 - Arrival to Siem Riep

Day Description: 6 hours night bus from Bangkok to Siem Riep. You’ll get to Siem Reap either by crossing the border from Thailand or by bus/van from Phnom Penh. Bangkok has a bunch of tourist buses doing the cross; loaded with scams and stress.

Accomodation: Overflow Guesthouse

Address: Phsa Krom Street

Website: http://www.booking.com/hotel/kh/green-life-villa.html

Day 1 - Arrival to Siem Riep

Friday: 7:00 AM – 8:00 PM 1. Bangkok Saturday: 7:00 AM – 8:00 PM Sunday: 7:00 AM – 8:00 PM Duration ~ 2 Hours Rating: 3.9 Bangkok, Thailand

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2. Krong Siem Reap

Duration ~ 6 Hours

Krong Siem Reap, Cambodia

Arrival to Siem Riep.

3. Psar Chas, the Old Market

Duration ~ 2 Hours

Krong Siem Reap, Cambodia

Monday: 7:00 AM – 8:00 PM Tuesday: 7:00 AM – 8:00 PM Wednesday: 7:00 AM – 8:00 PM Thursday: 7:00 AM – 8:00 PM

Day 2 - Siem Riep

Accomodation: Diamond Palace II Hotel

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Day 2 - Siem Riep

Friday: 8:30 AM – 6:30 PM Friday: 7:30 AM – 6:30 PM 1. Cambodia Landmine Museum Saturday: 8:30 AM – 6:30 PM Saturday: 7:30 AM – 6:30 PM Sunday: 8:30 AM – 6:30 PM Sunday: 7:30 AM – 6:30 PM Duration ~ 2 Hours Telephone: +855 63 966 601 Telephone: +855 63 963 330 67, Cambodia Website: www.angkornationalmuseum.com Website: www.artisansdangkor.com Rating: 4.2 Rating: 4.3 Monday: 7:30 AM – 5:00 PM Tuesday: 7:30 AM – 5:00 PM The Angkor Naonal Museum (entrance $12) is a big and The streets in the old market area are filled with unique Wednesday: 7:30 AM – 5:00 PM flashy intro to Khmer art, architecture and history. It women’s clothing bouques, handmade jewelry studios and Thursday: 7:30 AM – 5:00 PM features many sculptures that were long ago plundered galleries lined with works of arsts inspired by the great Friday: 7:30 AM – 5:00 PM from the Angkor Temples and gives them a new safe home naon of Cambodia. Favorite include Arsan’s De Angkor, Saturday: 7:30 AM – 5:00 PM in beautifully designed galleries. which focuses on tradional arts like silk work and stone Sunday: 7:30 AM – 5:00 PM carvings and offers free tours to it’s silk workshop, Garden of Desire, which features delicate jewelry on stunning Telephone: +855 15 674 163 WIKIPEDIA Website: www.cambodialandminemuseum.org displays, and Jim McDermo Gallery, featuring the work of Angkor Naonal Museum is an archaeological museum Rating: 4.4 many talented photographers. dedicated to the collecon, preservaon and presentaon of A small museum that focuses on Cambodia’s lile known Angkorian arfacts, also to provides informaon and struggle with these crippling devices, it is highly educaon about art and culture of Khmer civilizaon, with 4. Khmer Ceramics & Fine Arts Centre recommended. Alone, the touching life story of the founder collecons mainly dated from Khmer Empire's Angkor period of the museum is enough to jusfy the me to visit and the circa 9th to more.. Duration ~ 2 Hours cost of admission. Krong Siem Reap, Cambodia

3. Artisans Angkor Monday: 8:00 AM – 8:00 PM 2. Angkor National Museum Duration ~ 2 Hours Tuesday: 8:00 AM – 8:00 PM Wednesday: 8:00 AM – 8:00 PM Duration ~ 2 Hours Chaners-Ecoles, Stung Thmey Street, Krong Siem Reap Thursday: 8:00 AM – 8:00 PM Charles De Gaulle, Krong Siem Reap, Cambodia 855500, Cambodia Friday: 8:00 AM – 8:00 PM Saturday: 8:00 AM – 8:00 PM Monday: 8:30 AM – 6:30 PM Monday: 7:30 AM – 6:30 PM Sunday: 8:00 AM – 8:00 PM Tuesday: 7:30 AM – 6:30 PM Tuesday: 8:30 AM – 6:30 PM Telephone: +855 17 843 014 Wednesday: 7:30 AM – 6:30 PM Wednesday: 8:30 AM – 6:30 PM Website: www.khmerceramics.com Thursday: 7:30 AM – 6:30 PM Thursday: 8:30 AM – 6:30 PM Rating: 4.8

Day 2 - Siem Riep

5. Temple Bar

Duration ~ 3 Hours

Doung Hem St, Krong Siem Reap, Cambodia

Website: www.templegroup.asia Rating: 3.7

Seeing an Apsara dancing show while in Cambodia is a must- do. The vast majority of performances are dinner-and-show setups, but excepons exist. For the most casual viewers, Temple Bar features a free show in it’s restaurant every night at 7:30, though you are of course expected to order dinner or drinks from the reasonably priced menu. Arrive early to get good seats!

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Day 3 - ANGKOR WAT

Day Description: You can buy a pass to the Angkor complex for 1 ($20), 3 ($40) or 7 ($60) days. A photo will be taken at the cket booth, which will be printed on your entree pass. The cket booth is located on the main road from Siem Riep to the Angkor Wat complex, not easy to miss. I recommend hiring a tuktuk to explore the huge complex and all the tuktuk drivers obviously know the drill. Tak… lots of water with you, it gets very hot during the day! • Accomodation: Overflow Guesthouse Bring some food with you, there are some restaurants Address: Phsa Krom Street and shops but not near all the temples and you’ll need Website: http://www.booking.com/hotel/kh/green-life-villa.html some energy to climb those steeps stairs… • Tip your Tuktuk driver. They work hard and you can easily spare those couple of bucks..

Day 3 - ANGKOR WAT

1. Angkor Wat 3. Ta Prohm 6. Red Piano Restaurant

Duration ~ 8 Hours Duration ~ 1 Hour Duration ~ 2 Hours

Krong Siem Reap, Cambodia Krong Siem Reap, Cambodia 341 Street 08, Krong Siem Reap, Cambodia

Rating: 4.7 Telephone: +855 12 406 929 Website: apsaraauthority.gov.kh Monday: 7:00 AM – 12:30 AM 7:00 arrival to Angkor. Angkor Wat in Siem Reap is Rating: 4.8 Tuesday: 7:00 AM – 12:30 AM spectacular and special and connues to reward no maer Wednesday: 7:00 AM – 12:30 AM how many mes you visit. It was the highlight of our trip to Thursday: 7:00 AM – 12:30 AM Cambodia. It can be very busy, so give yourself extra me 4. Angkor Thom Friday: 7:00 AM – 12:30 AM to catch all the highlights. Angkor Wat temple prices: 1-day Saturday: 7:00 AM – 12:30 AM Duration ~ 1 Hour Sunday: 7:00 AM – 12:30 AM = $20, 3-day = $40, 7-day = $60. The fastest and most Angkor, Cambodia cost-eﬀecve way to get around the temples is to hire a Telephone: +855 63 963 240 tuk-tuk driver for the day for a set price. We found one for Website: www.angkorthomcambodia.com Website: www.redpianocambodia.com $25 for two days between three of us. . Rating: 4.7 Rating: 3.9 Dinner WIKIPEDIA WIKIPEDIA Angkor Wat is a temple complex in Cambodia and the largest Angkor Thom, located in present-day Cambodia, was the last religious monument in the world, on a site measuring 162.6 and most enduring capital city of the Khmer empire. It was hectares. It was originally constructed as a Hindu temple of established in the late twelh century by King Jayavarman VII. god Vishnu for the Khmer Empire, gradually transforming into a It covers an area of 9 km², within which are located several Buddhist temple towards the end of the 12th century. It more.. monuments from earlier eras as well as those established more..

2. Srah Srang 5. Angkor Night Market Street Duration ~ 1 Hour Duration ~ 2 Hours Srah Srang, Krong Siem Reap, Cambodia Angkor Night Market St, Krong Siem Reap, Cambodia Rating: 3.5

Day 4 - From Siem Riep to Phnom Penh

Day Description: Coming to/from Siem Reap you’ll be catching the cheap 7-hour bus or van for about $16 USD. Somemes cheap ﬂights can be found but are generally never as cheap as catching the bus.

Accomodation: Diamond Palace II Hotel

Address: # 29E0, St. 178, Sangkat Cheychumnah

Website: http://www.booking.com/hotel/kh/diamond-palace- ii.html

Day 4 - From Siem Riep to Phnom Penh

Friday: 7:00 – 8:00 PM 1. Krong Siem Reap Saturday: 7:00 – 8:00 PM Sunday: 7:00 – 8:00 PM Duration ~ 2 Hours Telephone: +855 17 998 570 Krong Siem Reap, Cambodia Website: experience.cambodianlivingarts.org Rating: 4.8

2. Phnom Penh

Duration ~ 6 Hours

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

WIKIPEDIA Phnom Penh, formerly known as Krong Chaktomuk, is the capital and most populous city of the Southeast Asian country of Cambodia. Located on the banks of the Tonlé Sap and Mekong River, Phnom Penh has been the naonal capital since French colonizaon of Cambodia, and has grown to become the more..

3. Tradional Dance Show, Cambodian Living Arts

Duration ~ 2 Hours

Grounds of the Naonal Museum (St. 178 & St. 13), Preah Ang Makhak Vann St. (178), Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Monday: 7:00 – 8:00 PM Tuesday: 7:00 – 8:00 PM Wednesday: 7:00 – 8:00 PM Thursday: 7:00 – 8:00 PM

Day 5 - Phnom Penh

Accomodation: Diamond Palace II Hotel

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Day 5 - Phnom Penh

by the Khmer rouge in the 70’s. Inevitably, the visit will 1. ASOK Chaktomuk (Royal Palace) One of the saddest place in the history of the world is make you connect emoonally with Cambodian people and Choeung Ek or popularly known as The Killing Field. A mass have a better understanding of their present. Duration ~ 2 Hours grave of thousands of vicms of the Pol Pot Regime killed Sangkat Chey Chumneah, Phnom Penh, Cambodia between 1975 to 1979. Today, Choeung Ek stands as a memorial located about 11 kilometers away from the City WIKIPEDIA and is the most visited among hundreds of other killing Monday: 7:00 AM – 5:00 PM The Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum is a museum in Phnom Penh, ﬁelds under the Khmer Rouge where millions was killed. Tuesday: 7:00 AM – 5:00 PM the capital of Cambodia, chronicling the Cambodian genocide. Wednesday: 7:00 AM – 5:00 PM There is a movie tled "The Killing Fields" dramazing the The site is a former high school which was used as the Thursday: 7:00 AM – 5:00 PM events at Choeung Ek. Combine the visit with a visit of notorious Security Prison 21 by the Khmer Rouge regime from Friday: 7:00 AM – 5:00 PM Tuol Sleng (S21). Quite intense - We were there shortly its rise to power in 1975 to its fall in 1979. Tuol Sleng means Saturday: 7:00 AM – 5:00 PM aer heavy rain and could see cloth and bones appearing more.. Sunday: 7:00 AM – 5:00 PM from the muddy ground.

It is a very beauful and interesng palace. It is worth 4. Phnom Penh Night Market visiting it. The Silver Pagoda is just awesome. 3. Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum Duration ~ 2 Hours Duration ~ 2 Hours Preah Mohaksat Treiyani Kossamak, Phnom Penh, 2. Choeung Ek Genocidal Center St 113, Phnom Penh 12304, Cambodia Cambodia

Duration ~ 1.5 Hours Monday: 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM Monday: 5:00 – 11:00 PM Sangkat Cheung Aek, Phnom Penh, Cambodia Tuesday: 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM Tuesday: 5:00 – 11:00 PM Wednesday: 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM Wednesday: 5:00 – 11:00 PM Thursday: 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM Thursday: 5:00 – 11:00 PM Monday: 8:00 AM – 5:30 PM Friday: 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM Friday: 5:00 – 11:00 PM Tuesday: 8:00 AM – 5:30 PM Saturday: 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM Saturday: 5:00 – 11:00 PM Wednesday: 8:00 AM – 5:30 PM Sunday: 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM Sunday: 5:00 – 11:00 PM Thursday: 8:00 AM – 5:30 PM Friday: 8:00 AM – 5:30 PM Telephone: +855 23 665 5395 Telephone: +855 23 222 839 Saturday: 8:00 AM – 5:30 PM Website: tuolsleng.gov.kh Rating: 3.7 Sunday: 8:00 AM – 5:30 PM Rating: 4.6 Very small but cute night market with the normal things to Telephone: +855 23 305 371 A must-see (together with the killing ﬁelds) to get a deeper buy, means fake clothes, watches and souvenirs...what i Rating: 4.6 knowledge about Cambodia’s terrible genocide perpetrated liked most is the place to eat at the end of the market, just

Day 6 - From Phnom Penh to Ho Chi Min City

Day Description: The flight from Phnom Pen is usually around $165USD minimum and takes fiy minutes or so. It's a monopoly by Vietnam Airlines, so prices aren't going to drop any me soon. By the me you get to the airport, wait for the flight, exit the other end and wait for luggage, you are looking at three and a half hours. The bus costs between $8 and $12 and takes six hours normall…y, so you are paying $1.02 for each minute of the one Accomodation: Diamond Palace II Hotel hundred and fiy minutes you are saving. Mekong ENoxticpe:r Terysinsg tow geet prroepe roty nof eno no-obfje ctt hin e/va rfi/wwrws/th tmCl/vaiemws/bpdof.pdhpia onn lin ec 4o11mpanies to do this run. They have some older Japanese buses (Mitsubishi, Nissan, Hino) that they have painted an aracve orange and white color. The buses, while a lile old are kept clean and dy. They have a toilet on board to the rear of the bus which is the item that causes them to lose a point in my review. Probably Contact us | turipo.com | [email protected] because the buses are a lile old, the toilet somemes

Day 6 - From Phnom Penh to Ho Chi Min City

1. Phnom Penh

Duration ~ 2 Hours

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

2. Ho Chi Minh City

Duration ~ 1 Hour

Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

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GENERAL TIPS

Language Safety and security Visa Khmer is the official language of Cambodia however you’ll be able to get by easily in Be rest assured though that all touristy areas of Cambodia have been cleared from A 30-day tourist visa is required for all visitors. Visas are available on arrival for $30 the cies and tourist areas of Cambodia where English is more commonly used and landmines. Despite its history of killings, Cambodia in 2016 is a perfectly safe country however if you are entering the country across a border (for example, from Bangkok), understood. to visit, more safe I would say that a lot of other countries. Whilst we recommend obtaining a Visa can be difficult. There are lots of local shops that will charge you exercising normal precauons to look aer your belongings as you explore; just as more for a “quicker” visa. you would in any other country; we found nothing but friendly, happy, smiling people your visa beforehand – the e-visa is available online and takes just three days to Packing list who welcomed us with open arms to their country process A passport and visa is required for most visitors to Cambodia. Visa exempon exists for the following naonalies: Laos, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia (who can stay in Cambodia for 21 and 30 days – see this site for The Khmer people are welcoming and friendly, we found the people we interacted more informaon). All visa opons menoned below requires a passport that is valid with in Cambodia to be some of the most warm and helpful people we met during our for at least six (6) months from the expiry date, 01 recent passport-sized photo as South East Asia travels. As with all large cies, keep your belongings close to you and well as blank pages in your passport. Visa on Arrival: Visitors can purchase a visa at the hold your bags ghtly when moving through crowded areas of when riding a tuk-tuk. airport in Phnom Penh, Siem Reap and borders. Current visa cost (one month stay) is The borders between Thailand and Cambodia have a reputaon for bag snatching so US $30 per adult, kids under 12 years of age are free. Your fees need to be paid in US keep an eye out. Addionally, if you are vising rural areas of Cambodia, stay with currency and in cash (We recommend EXACT change)! your guide and don’t wander off. Cambodia is home to unexploded mines sll, so whilst not common, it is best to sck with your guide and don’t walk through jungles by yourself. E-Visa: There is also an opon to get your visa sorted online pre-travels. The e-visa opon will cost you slightly more at US $40 (US$ 37 Visa fee + US $7 processing fee + US $3 Credit Card fees), kids under 12 years of age are free, however processing Tours and attractions fees will sll apply. Please note that the e-visa is not accepted at all boarder Get up early for your trip to Angkor – It’s hot year round in Siem Reap and you’ll want crossings, so please check before you proceed. You can organise your e-visa through to start your day early to get some sightseeing in before the heat gets unbearable. their website here. Plus, there is so much to see that you need me. The park is open from 5:30 am – 5:30 pm. If I were to go again, I think I would go first thing in the morning (starng Learn some history about Angkor. To even try and begin to appreciate the Angkor the day at any temple other than Angkor Wat) then go back into town for a couple complex you need to have some background knowledge. hours in the mid-aernoon and return to the park for the last couple hours that it’s open.