Trip overview
This length lands between our quickest four-day combination and the fuller six-day version. Two whole nights in the capital give sightseeing there proper room rather than squeezing it into a single morning, and the long drive north still lands you in Siem Reap with two more nights ahead before departure.
That drive north pulls its weight, too. By the time you check in, there is still an afternoon left for a small scent-making workshop, two temples by the river, and the open-air stalls of Street 60, all before the trip’s single big temple day.
Trip highlights
- A full sightseeing day in Phnom Penh, shaped around your interests
- A six-hour road transfer to Siem Reap that still leaves room for local stops
- Senteurs d’Angkor, a workshop turning local plants into oils, balms and soap
- Wat Bo and Wat Preah Prom Rath, two riverside pagodas in Siem Reap
- Angkor Wat, Angkor Thom, Baphuon and Ta Prohm on one temple day
- Sunset from Phnom Bakheng to close the temple day
Your day-by-day itinerary
Day 1: Arrive Phnom Penh
A driver, without a guide, meets your flight at Phnom Penh International Airport and delivers you to the hotel. Nothing else is planned for the rest of the day, and the capital’s sightseeing waits until morning.
Day 2: Phnom Penh sightseeing
A guide picks you up after breakfast for a full day working through the capital, weighted toward whichever mix of riverside history, markets or palace grounds interests you most. The evening is yours to spend as you like.
Day 3: Road transfer to Siem Reap, temples and street food
Checkout is followed by a good six hours in the vehicle heading north, the fare built into the price of the trip. Rooms are ready on arrival, and the afternoon goes straight back out again for local touring: a stop at Senteurs d’Angkor to watch plants turned into oils, balms and soap, then Wat Bo followed by Wat Preah Prom Rath, and finally the evening food stalls of Street 60, where locals eat once work ends for the day.
Day 4: Angkor Wat, Angkor Thom and Ta Prohm
The morning belongs to Angkor Wat, the biggest religious structure standing anywhere, oriented toward sunset rather than sunrise like most Khmer temples. From its South Gate you cross into Angkor Thom, where the eleventh-century Baphuon, dedicated to Shiva, sits a short walk from the carved faces of Bayon Temple.
Two ceremonial platforms, the Terrace of the Elephants and, beside it, the Terrace of the Leper King, come next, with an independent lunch stop near Srah Srang, then on to Ta Prohm, where fig and banyan roots have grown through the stonework. A hilltop climb to Phnom Bakheng closes the day at sunset.
Day 5: Departure from Siem Reap
A private transfer takes you to Siem Reap–Angkor International Airport, roughly 50 km from town, for your onward or homeward flight. Nothing else is scheduled on this final day, so allow extra time given the distance.
What’s included
- Hotels in the class you choose, twin or double occupancy, with breakfast each morning, or an equivalent property if the one named is full.
- All meals written into the day-by-day programme below.
- A private air-conditioned vehicle for every transfer and excursion in the programme.
- An English-speaking local guide at each stop on the route.
- Every boat trip, river crossing and cruise named in the itinerary.
- Entrance fees for the sites listed in the programme.
- Drinking water in the vehicle and on boat days.
- Government tax and service charge.
Not included
- International and domestic flights, and rail tickets.
- Visas, and any fee collected at a border post.
- Travel insurance.
- Meals and drinks that are not written into the programme.
- Personal spending such as laundry, phone calls, minibar, souvenirs and watersports.
- Early check-in, late check-out and room upgrades.
- Anything added on the day at your request outside the printed programme.
- Gratuities for your guide and driver.
- Costs arising from weather, flooding, road closures or other events beyond our control.
- Bank transfer charges.
Booking this trip
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