Grand Circle Cambodia 12 Days Private Discovery

• A warm welcome upon your arrival in Phnom Penh, the beautiful City beside the Mekong River bank. The tour guide will pick you up right at the airport exit.
• Transfer to the hotel, make the check-in and relax

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 Overnight in Phnom Penh hotel

Morning:

• Visit Royal Palace is a royal residence now where His Majesty, the King of Cambodia, and the royal families live.
• Continue to Silver Pagoda, which serves less as a functioning temple than a repository for cultural treasures such as 90 kg golden Buddha encrusted with 2086 diamonds and followed by visit Wat Phnom Temple is one of the most important pagodas in Phnom Penh.

Afternoon:

• Explore the “Killing Fields” of Choeng Ek (15 km south of Phnom Penh). Between 1975 and 1978 about 17,000 men, women, children, and infants (including nine westerners) were detained and tortured at the S-21 prison and transported to the extermination camp of Choeng Ek.
• Visit the Russian Market (Toul Tumpong Market). The Market has gained a reputation for cheap clothing, a large selection of Buddha images and woodcarvings, betel-nut boxes, silk, and silver jewelry.

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 Overnight in Phnom Penh hotel

 Breakfast, Lunch

Morning:

• Visit Wat Phnom Temple is one of the most important pagodas in Phnom Penh. Built-in 1373 on an artificial hill by the wealthy widow Daun Chi Penh by Cyclo ride. 
• You will be also taken along through the old colonial streets of Phnom Penh and get a glimpse of urban life in Southeast Asia. 

Afternoon:

• Visit the National Museum, over 5000 objects are on display including Angkorian-era statues, Lingas, and other artifacts.
• Visit Royal Palace is a royal residence now where His Majesty, the King of Cambodia, and the royal families live.
• Continue to Silver Pagoda, which serves less as a functioning temple than a repository for cultural treasures such as a 90 kg golden Buddha encrusted with 2086 diamonds

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 Overnight in Phnom Penh hotel

 Breakfast, Lunch

Morning:

• Breakfast at the hotel. Pick up at your hotel and depart for Battambang by overland transfer (290 km. 4-5 hrs drive).
• Stop at the Silversmith village, see the pottery manufactories in Kompong Chhnang, and visit also a fish market.
• Arrive in Battambang, and check in at the hotel. Walk through the town to discover its beautiful colonial architecture followed by the central market of Battambang – Psanat.

Afternoon:

• The same afternoon, we also enjoyed the bamboo train village with a great experience of the local homemade funny train sliding on a railway at Oudombong Village.

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 Overnight in Battambang Hotel

 Breakfast, Lunch

Morning:

• Drive along the picturesque Sangker River to Wat Slaket Pagoda, the residence of the provincial Buddhist patriarch Continue to visit Wat Ek Phnom.
• Visit a market where Prahoc, the Cambodian fish paste, is made.

Afternoon:

• Drive to Phnom Sampeou Mountain, steeped in legend, and topped by Wat Sampeou and a group of caves used as ‘killing caves’ by the Khmer Rouge.
• We’ll also visit natural caves. Your visit will last until dusk – a time when millions of bats emerge from a cave and create patterns as they fly in tandem across the sky – a nightly spectacular show of nature.

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 Overnight in Battambang Hotel

 Breakfast, Lunch

Morning: Transfer overland to Siem Reap overland (driving takes around 3 hours). Upon arrival, check-in at the hotel.

Afternoon: 

• We’ll visit Wat Bo, a highly respected pagoda founded in the 18th century, that contains very unique wall paintings of the Reamker (Ramayana).
• Continue to visit the "Les Artisans d'Angkor – Chantiers Ecole" the Finest Authentic Khmer Arts and Crafts.
• End our visits at one of the city’s lively open markets, Psar Chars also called the “Old Market”, where anything and everything is for sale.

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 Overnight in Siem Reap Hotel

 Breakfast, Lunch

Morning:

• Heading out of town we make our way by traveling on a newly paved road to the intricately carved and well-preserved temple of Banteay Srei.
• Along the way, we make a stopover at the Preah Dark village and we follow these with a visit to the Banteay Samre Temple adorned with impressive reliefs depicting scenes of Vishnu as well as Krishna legends.

Afternoon:

• Visit the monuments of Rolous, which served as the capital of Indravarman I (reigned 877-89.
• Preah Ko erected by Indravarman I in the late 9th century dedicated by the King to his ancestors in 880. Bakong the largest and most interesting of the Roluos group temples, was built on an islet in the center of a large reservoir (now rice fields) by Yasovarman I, the founder of the first city at Angkor. 

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 Overnight in Siem Reap

 Breakfast, Lunch

Morning:

• Early wake up in the morning for a transfer to enjoy the sunrise over the Angkor Temple.
• Back to the hotel for breakfast then you continue to discover the Angkor Wat, a temple complex built for King Suryavarman II in the early 12th century as his state temple and capital city.
• After breakfast at the hotel, you continue to explore the ruins including the South Gate of Angkor Thom, the impressive Bayon Temple, the Royal Enclosure, Phimeanakas, the Elephant Terrace, the Terrace of the Leper King, and the Preah Khan temple. 

Afternoon:

• Explore the fabulous Ta Prohm temple which embraced by fig and silk-cotton trees puncture the roofs of Ta Prohm’s towers. End of the day you will enjoy the sunset at the Preah Rup temple

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 Overnight in Siem Reap

 Breakfast, Lunch

Morning:

• Visit the Tonle Sap where we will enjoy a boat ride (private boat and guide) on the Tonle Sap Lake. This is the largest permanent freshwater lake in Southeast Asia and flows into the Tonle Sap River, joining the Mekong in Phnom Penh.
• We will see a fishermen's "floating village" with floating schools, a floating police station, etc. It is the same as a big village floating on the lake, and the "village" moves from place to place following water levels and currents.

Afternoon:

• Transfer overland to Kampong Thom. Upon arrival, check-in at the hotel. 

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 Overnight in Kampong Thom

 Breakfast, Lunch

Morning:​

• Visit Sambor Prei Kuk, located 37 km from Kompong Thom province. It is a former capital and was previously named Ey San Borak, built during the reign of King Isanavarman I in the 7th century.
• Proceed your way to Chhlong taking around 4-5 hours via Chamkar Leur, Kampong Cham, and Rubber Plantations, financed in the beginning by the French tire maker Michelin

Afternoon:

• Upon arrival to Kampong Cham, stop for Lunch at a local restaurant on your account.
• Proceed to Chhlong, upon arrival to Chhlong, check-in to the hotel

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 Overnight in Chhlong Town

 Breakfast, Lunch

Morning:​

• Depart to Kratie (38 km about 45 min by road) where you will take the local ferry to Koh Trong Island.
• A 9km loop road around the island’s perimeter provides opportunities for visitors to leisurely bicycle ride through traditional Khmer villages, fruit orchards, and rice fields.
• Heading north to the top of the island, you will turn left and head inland. Not far along this path, you will come across a Wat Ty Pram Kbal Pagoda.

Afternoon:

• Take the local ferry to Kratie and then transfer to Prek Kampi for the boat cruise on the Mekong River where you will get on a local boat to catch glimpses of the rare Mekong River Dolphins.
• And if you are very lucky, you may spot a dolphin tail. After the tour check-in to the hotel and dinner on your account. Overnight on the Island of Koh Trong

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 Overnight in Chhlong Town

 Breakfast, Lunch

• Transfer to Phnom Penh from Koh Trong Island around 5 hours passing Svay Anto district, Prey Veng province to Khsach Kandal district. 
• Then take a local shuttle ferry at Areyksat ferry dock crossing the Mekong River with local people to reach Phnom Penh

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 Overnight in Phnom Penh

 Breakfast

• Today is the last day of the journey for the Grand Circle Cambodia 12 Days Private Discovery
• You will have time to walk around the street one more time and get some local souvenirs.
• Then you will be transferred to the airport for your flight home.
• Have a good journey and thanks for traveling with us.

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