Durée : 15 jours 14 nuits
Départ : Phnom Penh
Arrivée : Phnom Penh
Catégorie(s) : culture, nature, rencontre avec des locaux, hors des sentiers battus
Accompagnateur disponible : anglophone, francophone, hispanophone, italophone
Grand tour around the Lake via Kratie Mondulkiri & Preah Vihear in 15 days
PHNOM PENH – KAMPONG CHAM – KRATIE – MONDULKIRI – BANLUNG– PERA VIHEAR – SIEM REAP – ANGKOR – PREK TOAL – BATTAMBANG – PURSAT – KAMPONG CHNANG – PHNOM PENH
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Your Program:
A complete file will be provided on arrival in Cambodia for complete information on typical restaurants and some practical info & off-the-beaten-track tours in order to preserve the originality of our tours.
Day 1 : PHNOM PENH
Reception at the airport. You are expected at the exit of the airport by our driver who will have a sign with your name. Transfer to the hotel without a guide.
Installation at the hotel. Free time.
Overnight in Phnom Penh.
Services provided: Transfers, Hotel
Day 2 : PHNOM PENH (B - L)
8:00: Meet your guide at the hotel reception.
Start visiting the Royal Palace moved from the former capital Oudong in 1863; visit the Silver Pagoda (more than 5000 silver tiles decorate the ground where is the golden statue of Buddha Maitreya of 90 kg. Visit the central market renovated by a France donation.
At noon: an authentic meal will be offered to you in a restaurant at the edge of the Mekong. Atmosphere of very local and off-the-beaten-track.
One or several representatives of the agency will lunch with you. They will share with you their loves of the Cambodia.
Around you the Khmers sell: crickets, fruits of the village (longane, jack fruit , apple milk, and mango). Here few tourists, but, the Khmer life in nature.
In the afternoon, visit the National Museum formerly called the Albert Sarraut museum where the objects, statues and arts piece, come from all the Cambodian provinces. You will continue by the visit the Pagoda Ounalom built in 1443, it is the most important pagoda in Phnom Penh.
Colonial district (Option, if time permits and if you wish): the Grand Hotel, the Post office, the Bank of Indochina, the Police station, the Superior Residence, the Treasury Bridge, the Chamber of Commerce, the Library and the Railway Station.
Visit the Wat Phnom (Pagoda on the hill) renovated in 1926. At the foot of the hill is a bas-relief sculptured by Théodore Rivière to honor the Siam-French treaty.
In the evening, take small cruise along the river bank towards the Chroy Changvar peninsula (according to weather and time, sunset on the Royal Palace).
Overnight Phnom Penh.
Services provided: Guide, air-conditioned vehicle with driver, hotel with breakfast, entrances to the sites visited, private boat, lunch.
Day 3 : PHNOM PENH - Kampong Cham - Sen Monorom (Mondulkiri) (B) 6h00 drive
Direction : Kampong Cham (about 2 h 30, 130km) in the agricultural province most populous of Cambodia.
Optional stop at Skun: a transit point where you will meet any sort of travelers. Enjoy insects (grasshoppers, locusts, scorpion, fermented ants - taste like a crunchy hazelnut) and local fruits (fresh or dried) green mangos, pineapples, bananas, etc... Adventurers will play with tarantulas in full hands or crunch its legs.
In Kampong Cham: Burn incense sticks at legendary hills of Phnom Pros and Phnom Srei. You will be welcomed by monkeys waiting for your bananas. Discover of the temple dedicated to Buddha built by King Jayavarman VII in the thirteenth century
Alternative bypassing Kampong Cham:
Departure by the new road through the rice granary of the province of Prey Veng for Sen Monorom
Departures: In the village of Heng Samrin the name of the President of the National Assembly at the time. Break for lunch at Snoul first military base armed forces of the communist Viet Cong and his statue commemorating Khmer-Vietnamese friendship. Along the roads rubber plantations, rice paddies, duck farms ...
Continue to Sen Monorom across the primary forest where wild orchids flourish. Installation at the lodge or Guest House that you choose in our selection.
Departure in the afternoon for PHNOM DOH KROMOM, the highest point where you get a panoramic view of Sen Monorom, as well as the sunset. You can if you wish to do the next day.
Return to the hotel.
Overnight in Sen Monorom
Services provided: driver with vehicle conditioning, the hotel with breakfast, entrances to the sites visited
Day 4 : Mondulkiri and its Minorities (B)
Discover the Bousra waterfall which is the most important waterfall of Cambodia, located 35 km from Sen Monorom. Possibility for bathing. More access to descend down the waterfall Bousra: If you are in good physical condition, return and take the wooden stairs, if not down where there are small shops on the left side at the end.
We will continue the track to get to the village, where the majority ethnic group of Phnong lives. On site, there is a Catholic mission with its two churches. If you bring along some clothes, colored pencils, notebooks, paper and medications with you, you candonate some.
Return to Sen Monorom through villages populated by ethnic minority Stieng.
Walk in coffee plantation. Optional supplement: you can taste coffee.
Overnight in Sen Monorom
Services provided: driver with vehicle conditioning, the hotel with breakfast, entrances to the sites visited.
Day 5 : Sen Monorom (Mondulkiri) (B, L)
Discover the village of POUTAIN lives the ethnic majority Phnong. You will see their long collective residential homes now abandoned in favor of more robust wooden houses, modern forces.
Departure on an elephant back towards the waterfalls. You will cross by the green vegetation along a rapid where the Phnongs plant the manioc, banana trees, cashew nut tree, etc.
Elephants "work" only 3 hours a day maximum, 1h30 per way, same for the return. At some difficult crossing points, walking behind the elephant is required. By mid-morning to mid-afternoon elephants are left standing, feeding, and bathing. Onroad picnic lunch offered.
Note: you can help to groom the elephant or just admire this unique spectacle.
Depending on your fitness at the moment, you can return to the village POUTAIN on foot.
Overnight in Sen Monorom
Services provided: driver with vehicle conditioning, the hotel with breakfast, entries in the visited sites, picnic.
Day 6 : Sen Monorom – Kratié (B)
Depart by road to Kratie (around 3-hour drive).
Arrive in Kratie, take a unique moment on boat on the Mekong to observe freshwater dolphins, endangered species. Concerned, an inexplicably high pup mortality, inbreeding, disease and habitat destruction, but especially gillnets.
Option: depending on the arrival time in Kratie province:
Visit Wat 100 columns (in Khmer: Wat Sorsor Muy Roi) and the tomb of the princess Kror Pom Chuk which, according to legend, died after an attack of crocodiles in the Sambour district, the ancient city of Chenla Empire. The story goes that her spirit still haunts the region and the people of Kratie often speak of it.
On-site visit the soft turtles conservation center (Family Trionychidae). This international project involves the long-term conservation of the wild population of one of the rarest freshwater turtles and the biggest in the world.
Depending on your fitness at the time, possibility to climb the Sambok hill for a panoramic view of the region.
Overnight at hotel on the river in Kratie.
Services provided: driver with vehicle conditioning, the hotel with breakfast, entrances to the sites visited, private boat.
Day 7 :Kratie – Stung Treng – Preah Vihear (B)
Road to Preah Vihear "sacred sanctuary". On the way, discover the Stung Trengtown, and crossed by the Mekong by the bridge inaugurated in 2015 (Approximately 6h00 of route includingstops).
Break at Sraem (transit village of the Preah Vihearprovince).
In the afternoon:
Continue by the old conflict zone between the Thailand and the Cambodia where “king of sun” Sûryavarman I built the temple of Preah Vihear dedicated to the god Shiva.
At the foot of the hill, take a 4x4 to climb the hill to the temple’s entrance then continue by foot. At the peak, magnificent panoramic view on the Thailand.
(In case of hindrance you can transfer this visit to the next day in the morning.)
Back to Sraem end of the day (30Km).
Overnight Sraem village in the province of Preah Vihear.
Services provided: vehicle conditioning with driver, 4*4 pick-up for Preah Vihear, the hotel with breakfast, entrances to the sites visited. The local English-speaking guide if availability, you pay this local guide.
Day 8: Preah Vihear - Koh Ker - BengMéaléa- SIEM REAP (B)
8h00 : Departure in the direction of Koh Ker an impressive and abandoned temple in 120km of Siem Reap, built by king Jayavarman IV (AD 928-942). The story of the creation of this Capital is quite familiar to the Indian mythology MAHABHARATA. It was the big evolution in the Khmer architecture which prefers statues much more impressive than natural size.
Prasat Thom has the shape of a 7-storeyed unfinished pyramid built within the temples which was built in the previous period.
After a small rest in the hammock, we continue the visit another forgotten temple, Beng Mealea (Flower in the pond).
The quality of the architecture and the decoration of this temple will amaze you in spite of the nature and the man who left it in ruin.
Before of arriving in Siem Reap, direction to the Big Lake, visit the fantastic and unique village of the fishermen of Kampong Pluk, a village on the water,cut off from the world (only accessible by boat).
You will take a boat to visit these houses on piles built only to face the floods during the monsoon.
During the dry season, you will have a walk in this village surrounding a pagoda. You can observe the constructions and the renovations of houses and boats, the lifestyle of the inhabitants, the means of transport of the villagers who live 6 months on the water. Visit houses and small factories of fishes, small market etc. …
During the rainy season, you will embark on a boat to visit from one house to another and you will change later again a small boat to discover the flooded forest.
Arrive at Siem Reap in the late afternoon.
You will go to discover Siem Reap, beginning with "Psar Chas", the old market. Then city tour of the much livened up district situated behind the hotel Ta Prohm where you can walk in the evening (restaurants, massages, workshops, crafts…night market).
Overnight in Siem Reap.
Services provided: driver with vehicle conditioning, the hotel with breakfast, entrances to the sites visited, private boat.
Day 9 : SIEM REAP – Angkor temple(B)
8:00: Meet your guide at the hotel reception.
Discover the archaeological park of the Khmer empire. Adjust the visit on spot with the guide according to your desire and curiosity (You can also follow the chronological order of the temple constructions).
Visit the temples of the group Roluos marked by the beginning of the Khmer civilization. The royal temple of King Indravarman I, Bakong is one of first stone constructed temples,an architectural revolution of the period illustrating the cult Devaraja which gave legitimacy to the royal power.
Continue towards the other temples of the group.
Direction: the small temple Banteay Srei (Citadel of women) "Tribhuvanamahesvara". It is located 25km north Siem Reap, built in pink sandstone which make this motifs carved like the precious of Khmer art and which attracted the attention of André Malraux in 1923. It is situated in 25Km North of Siem Reap.
Option and if you are passionate, on the direction of Banteay Srei possibility to visit
A butterfly farm (no extra charge). http://www.angkorbutterfly.com
The Mine museum (With additional charge, you pay at the door).www.cambodialandminemuseum.org
On the way back, visit small temples (Banteay Samré, Prasat Prei, Prasat Tor…).
Overnight in Siem Reap.
Services provided: English speaking guide, air-conditioned vehicle with driver, hotel with breakfast, entrances to the sites visited
Day 10 : SIEM REAP – Angkor Temple (B)
A whole day is dedicated to the temples in the small and big circuit:
Kravan, Ta Nei, Bat Chum, Srah Srang,
Ta Prohm, Banteay Kdei, Pre Roup, Tasom, Neak Pean, Krol Kor, Prasat Pithu, Preah Khan, Preah Palilay and Bakheng.
6:30 p.m.: Dinner offered with "Apsara" show in the AMAZONE restaurant: enormous buffet of all kinds of Cambodian specialties with Apsara performance (20 male and female dancers).
Overnight in Siem Reap.
Services provided: English speaking guide, air-conditioned vehicle with driver, hotel with breakfast, dinner, entries in the visited sites
In Siem Reap, there is a quality show organized by the circus school of Battambang. (Strongly recommended but with additional charge, ask your guide to reserve at your convenient date. Phone: 015499480).
Day 11 : SIEM REAP – Angkor Temple (B)
Day by TukTuk
This day is reserved for the visit the ancient capital of Angkor Thom and the famous temple of Angkor Wat
Then the temples in the ancient capital of Angkor Thom: Bayon, Baphuon, Terrace of the Elephants, the Royal Palace, Terrace of the Leper King, Phimeanakas, Chau SayTevada, Thommanon,Tanei and Takeo
Afternoon: visit the famous Temple Angkor Wat in detail and Bakheng for the sunset.
Option without supplement: at 18 km from Siem Reap, the silk farm center, the breeding of the silkworms in the traditional weaving, the craftsman treats the whole process and makes beautiful parts in the old motives.
Overnight in Siem Reap.
Services provided: English speaking guide, TukTuk, the hotel with breakfast, entrances to the visited sites
Day 12 : Siem Reap - Battambang (B)
3 options possible for this day :
By default it will be option 1 that is chosen, you must tell us if you opt for option 2 or 3.
Option 1 :
9:00: Our vehicle will transfer to the pier. Private boat trip on the Tonle Sap Lake, visit floating village of Chong Khneas, about 1:30 boat, the driver waiting in the same place that you had left. Then drive to Battambang and early visits scheduled the next day and will ease the next day's program.
In Battambang we have the opportunity to see many French colonial houses.
Overnight in Battambang.
Option 2 : WITH SUPPLEMENT CLICK HERE: At 7:00 transfer from your hotel to the pier. Departure for Battambang collective speedboat (depend on the season) that made the trip in one of main river way without a guide, you embark with your suitcases, a car or tuktuk waiting for you on the other side in Battambang, the driver will have a sign with your name.
Depend on the season, the lake’s surface may vary from 2500 to 120,000 square kilometers (4 to 5 times). In general from February to May the crossing is not possible for collective boats.
Overnight in Battambang.
Option 3 : WITH SUPPLEMENT CLICK HERE: At 7h00 transfer from your hotel to the pier. Departure pour Battambang private boat with, among others, hammocks for your comfort. You cross the Tonle Sap Lake and continue by the river along PrekToal Sangker, bird sanctuary, and through the flooded forest (6 to 8 hours of power boat depending on the season). Once in Battambang, as applicable, you are transferred to the hotel either by car or tuktuk
This crossing is normally navigable throughout the year.
If the water is too low, our boat will land before your Battambang pier and you will continue by road by 4x4. When the water is low it is best to pick early, around 7:00.
Throughout this journey you will see the small villages on the both banks, fish farms, local residents who swim, herds in water, Chinese fishing square nets and agricultural scenes on 2 sides.
Important optional stops but with option 3:
At Prek Toal :
1. A water hyacinth Workshop: In a large floating home, the women of the community produce general merchandise at the base of a variety of water hyacinth's "Long Branch".
2. A floating crocodile farm.
3. Vat Choeu Khmao or "black wood" Pagoda ruined in flooded place built by fishermen in the 19th century during the Siamese occupation.
4. Floating village Bak Prea: A restaurant on the water is available but, however we recommend taking a picnic lunch (see the guide, we provide the water).
Warning: This crossing along the Prek Toal bird sanctuary but it is not a visite. To visit it is necessary to devote a day and spend the night there in order to surprise the birds at daybreak ... Contact us.
In Battambang we have the opportunity to see many French colonial houses.
Overnight in Battambang.
Services provided: vehicle conditioning with driver or boat depending on the chosen option, the hotel with breakfast, entrances to the visited sites.
Option for tonight or the next day: Pass by the circus school "Phare Ponleu Selpak" associative school where many young people come to learn various circus disciplines but also the illustration and theater, Depend on the schedule, there is the shows with little extra cost (usually it is closed on Sundays and other days depend on the seasons Ask your guide to call: 016,899,809). The circus is also every evening in Siem Reap Tel: 015499480. These shows are highly recommended (quality show ...)
Day 13: Battambang (B)
By TukTuk at 7h30 : visit the central market before taking TukTuk along the bank of Sangke river by crossing Cham et Khmer communities until the Ek Phnom temple. On the way, stop at Prohoc market to check your tolerance with the odor of fermented fish. Continue the rural visit to the old pagoda, Wat Samoung Knong sadly known by its prison activity during the Khmer Rouge regime. On the road, we will stop several times to observe the preparation of Krolann (pastry cake with glutinous rice, bean and coconut), rice pancakes, incense sticks, fish Nems.
Buy car at 13h30 : excursion until Prasat Banon or the hill Banon which is an attractive temple perched at the top of a hill, 368 step to climb for the bravest.
Then we will continue the road until Phnom Sampeou , 12Km of Battambang. At the top of a calcareous outcrop of Phnom Sampeou raises itself a set of temples, where the monkeys took up residence, with a magnificent view on the surrounding plains (A good physical condition is required).
You will discover a profound canyon of "ghosts" and caves having served as mass graves in the time of the Khmer Rouges. The corpses of the tortured prisoners were thrown to it. At the foot of hill, before slept sun, you can attend a magnificent show where millions of bats go out of the cave.
Option without supplement price during the day: Take ' Bamboo Train ' or train bamboo, visit a brickyard craft. Watch out! It moves terribly...
- Pagoda Wat DamreiSã, Wat Kandal,
- Battambang Museum,
- Former home the former noble in the village Wat Kor spared by the Khmer Rouge
- Old government Houe, out of service railway station , Colonial houses
Overnight in Battambang.
Services provided: vehicle conditioning with driver tuk tuk, bamboo train, the hotel with breakfast, entrances to the visited sites.
KAYAK optional for sports (extra charge):
11 Km kayak for a leisurely descent Ksach Pa up to 5 km after Battambang with English-speaking guide.
Day 14: Battambang – Pursat – KampongChnang – Phnom Penh (B)
8h00 : Departure from Battambang to Pursat town, located halfway from Phnom Penh, we will adjust the departure time according to what you wish to do during this day.
On the road, pass by the Krokor market famous for its fish’s product..
Visit Kampong Luong by boat, rustic, private. A surprising floating city of about 12000 inhabitants, dividing into two communities. The one assures the collection and the distribution of fishes and the other one sells the fishing tools and the different household products. These villages move according to the water level and are very well equipped: doctors, restaurants, schools … (It is most off-the-beaten-track)
Back to Phnom Penh via the Kampong Chnang Province famous for its floating village and its potteries.
At 36 km before arriving in Phnom Penh, visit Oudong, former Khmer capital. The palace was transformed into one of the most beautiful pagoda of this province situated at the foot of the Phnom Preah Jartroip hill (Mount Royal Treasury).
Visit the silversmiths village situated in Kampong Luong village, Pongnea Loeu district.
Overnight Phnom Penh.
Services provided: vehicle conditioning with driver, private boat, the hotel with breakfast, entrances to the sites visited.
Day 15: PHNOM PENH (B)
8h00 : Rendezvous with your guide at the hotel reception.
The morning at about 8 a.m.: departure by car then take a ferry for the Silk Island conscripts also Koh Dach on the Mekong, a heaven of peace in 15 km from Phnom Penh. In almost traditional houses, women weave silk and cotton fabrics.
This discovery costs you a half day.
Option: on the way back: visit the Russian market, visit the museum S21 "Toul Sleng" notorious center of torture and interrogation the prisoners under the Khmer Rouge Regime.
Continue by following the road which had been used to deport prisoners up to the extermination camp of Cheong Ek, also known as Killing Fields.
After all these emotions, for the amateurs of photos, you can climb to the 7th floor of the Sorya Shopping Center where you will have a panoramic view of Phnom Penh. Last shopping at the central market.
Late afternoon: drive home from the airport depending on your flight time.
Prestations fournies : Guide, véhicule climatisé avec conducteur, bateau ferry, les entrées dans les sites visités.
We also have several free options click here
If the heart tells you, you can spend a night in a homestay or other floating village and also enjoy a bike ride or tuktuk during a morning ... It is enough to ask.
The hotels we propose are visible via this link. Confirmed hotels will be listed here then.
The vehicle driver knows our tours and will take you to the places indicated in the program. He has a phone that will serve as a link between you and our office.
For tour greater than 7 days we can provide you with a phone that will be used to keep in touch with our office if you have no guide and driver (except at the seaside). You must make application before arriving in Cambodia.
PRICES INCLUDE
1. The phone with 30 minutes of credit if you asked before arriving in Cambodia
2. Airport transfers and transport mentioned in the program, with air conditioning vehicle and private driver
3. A hour massage Khmer is offered the day of your choice in Siem Reap: Choose Lakshmi Health Massage Center (see the guide)
4. Tips for suitcase carriers in hotels when our guide is present
5. Hotel included breakfast
6. Entries ticket on the sites and museums according to the program
7. All additional trips (boat, canoe ka yak, ox cart, bamboo train, tuk-tuk, etc.)
8. Private boats day: 2, 6, 8 et 14 You are alone on the boat!
9. The private cruise if this option is chosen. You are alone on the boat!
10. 1 free person per group of 16 full-paying persons (excluding flights)
11. 2 fresh bottles of water and refreshing towels 2 per person per day on your a private vehicle
12. Local taxes and port tax
13. Qualified English speaking guide day : 2, 9, 10, 11, 15
14. Private vehicle all 15 days
PRICE DOES NOT INCLUDE
International flights, lunches and dinners except those listed in the program, unplanned program activities, cleaning services, as extra drinks, visa fees, insurance, bank transfer fees.
BREAKFAST - HALF BOARD - FULL BOARD – A LA CARTE MEALS
Breakfast is always included in your program, except on the day of arrival.
Note: B = Breakfast L = Lunch D = Dinner
We can also include some or all lunches, evening, day of your choice. Show restaurants.
CHILDREN DISCOUNTS:
Infants under 2 years: totally free. The child sleeps with his parents. Meals are not provided. The child is not reflected in the number of people for the price calculation.
Children 2 to 10 years: They are reflected in the number of people for the calculation of prices and thereby contribute to lower. Additional 50% discount for 1 child, he will sleep in an extra bed.
AWARD OF ROOMS POLICY:
For 2 adults and 1 child: Depending on availability of hotels : A double room with a EXTRA bed, a triple room.
For 2 adults and 2 children: 2 bedrooms relatives or family room for 4 (Family Rooms typically cost twice the price of a double room)
2 adults and 3 children: Depending on availability of hotels is: A double room plus a triple room or a family room if possible.
If you are an odd number of over 10 years:
The only person wants a single room: There is a single supplement.
The only person sleeping in the room occupied by two people: This is a triple, if not triple room in a hotel it will be with an extra bed.
If you want, you can spend a night in a homestay or other floating village and also enjoy a bike ride or tuk tuk during a morning ... Just let us know
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