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Prepare to travel to Siem Reap

When scheduling discover Cambodia, fund 2/3 of your time should be reserved for tourist city of Siem Reap, where the temple was built from the 8th century as: Angkor Wat, Angkor Thom, Bayon, Ta Prohm …

This is where many of the oldest buildings in Cambodia with the unsolved mystery of how transport large boulders to build the majestic temples. Besides, fresh air, friendly people and the typical Khmer culture will make you feel comfortable when coming to this place. Cambodia travel packages

Siem Reap

Siem Reap

Please buy yourself a travel guidebook Cambodia and study trip of at least 1 week in advance. Some points about the price, the location may be different, depending on the level of policy updates.

How to Siem Reap?

Gate Aranprathet (Thailand) / Poipet is an international land border gates nearest to Siem Reap, just 165km and very good quality roads. Guests can go to Siem Reap often through Moc Bai border gate, passing Kong Pong Cham Phnom Penh or Siem Reap to the next. Roads from Phnom Penh to Siem Reap is quite good, with lots of buses, taxis operate throughout the day. In addition, up to Siem Reap from Phnom Penh by water, but only works in the following month rainy season onwards (September to February each year). Travel to Cambodia

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Not too difficult to rent a tour guide here, you can seek help hotel reservations. If you take the large group, spend some money for this because they will help you to understand the culture of Cambodia, meaning each location and choose the most beautiful scenery, the roads for exploring the most interesting monuments.

Fares visit all the monuments at Angkor Wat and Angkor Thom is 20 USD / day. If you have time to travel, buy a ticket to visit 3 days for $ 40 USD or $ 60 one week and visited all this ancient temple in here.

In case you are traveling for long and 2 to 3 days in Siem Reap, spend one day experience the scenic and cultural life here by bike offline. Biking and walking around Angkor Wat food preparation as a gentle lakeside picnic Angkor Wat will be a unforgettable memories in the journey in Cambodia.

If you select only one day journey in Siem Reap, be up early in the morning to see the sunrise at Angkor Wat.

Normally, you can go to the hotel Tuk Tuk welcome you from 5pm to 5:30 pm and takes about 20 minutes to Angkor Wat. If asked to go early in the morning so will have to pay extra for Tuk Tuk, but do not regret this money because the scenery ancient temple of dawn and magnificent splendor will not make you regret it.

With architecture consists of 5 large towers symbolize Meru mountains of India was built toward sundown, image ancient temple built by the Khmer empire striking early morning sky was setting impossible forget.

Riding elephant

Riding elephant

Went to Angkor Thom is necessarily to Ta Prohm, which was chosen as the set for the film The Secret Tomb. This is the Bayon style temple was built in the late 12th century early 13th century Ta Prohm beauty fascinated by pictures of ancient trees growing Knia Tung and bosses on the tower ruins by the time.

Tuk Tuk

Tuk Tuk

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