SIEM REAP
Siem Reap is a major tourist hub in Cambodia with close proximity to the world famous Temples of Angkor. It is a safe and pleasant town, with endless choices of stay and dine and a host of possible activities awaiting visitors.
Bon Om Touk 2020 (The Water Festival)
The Water Festival or Bon Oum Touk will take place on Friday, 30 October to Sunday, 1 November 2020.
One of Cambodia’s largest holidays, the annual festival marks the end of Cambodia’s rainy season, which often coincides with the reversal of Cambodia’s Tonle Sap River and the resultant flooding of the Tonle Sap lake. The Water Festival has been celebrated in Cambodia since as early as the 12th century, and signifies a celebration of water as an invaluable, life-giving resource: when the lake floods, it becomes a significant source of fish, and the surrounding farmland benefits from an increased surplus of minerals from the lake.
While in Cambodia, join the locals celebrating by eating ak ambok (a traditional khmer dish), enjoy the sights of the illuminated floats and cheer on the colourful longboat racers along the Tonle Sap River.
Angkor Wat
There are few places anywhere on earth to match the splendour of Angkor Wat. The temple is one of the largest monuments to religion ever built and is truly one the wonders of the world. Believed to have been constructed as a temple and mausoleum for King Suryavarman II at the peak of the Khmer empire in the first half of the 12th century, Angkor Wat seems to be the best-preserved of the Angkorean temples. As for other Angkorean temples and walled cities such as Angkor Thom, the central theme of Khmer architecture revolved around the idea of the temple-mountain.
Phnom Krom Hilltop Temple
A modern-era active temple which shares the hilltop with the temple ruins of Phnom Krom. There are seven crumbling towers among the ruins in two lines, with four towers east and three towers a bit higher up nearby and west. The hilltop area provides magnificent panoramic views of the Great Lake Tonle Sap, the surrounding countryside and Siem Reap town.
Kompong Khleang
Kampong Khleang is located on the northern lake-edge about 55 km east of Siem Reap town, more remote and less tourist than Kampong Pluk. Visitors to Kampong Khleang during the dry season are universally awestruck by the forest of stilted houses rising up to 10 meters in the air.
East Mebon
East Mebon is a large temple-mountain-like ruin, rising three levels and crowned by five towers. The temple is dedicated to Shiva in honour of the king’s parents. Inscriptions indicate that it was also built to help re-establish the continuity of kingship at Angkor in light of the interruption that occurred when the seat of power had been moved to Koh Ker.
Banteay Srei
Banteay Srei is an exquisite miniature; a fairy palace in the heart of an immense and mysterious forest. The enchanting temple of Banteay Srei is nearly everyone's favourite site. The special charm of this temple lies in its remarkable state of preservation, small size and excellence of decoration
The Great Lake Tonle Sap
The Lake is the largest fresh water in South East Asia. This lake providing many of bio-diversities, over 300 species of fresh water fishes, as well as snakes, crocodiles, tortoises, turtles and otters. More than 100 varieties water birds including storks, pelicans, etc. Chong Khneas is the name of famous floating village at the edge of the lake. The boat trip through the floating village takes approximately two hours, which will bring visitors to explore the different of Khmer, Muslim and Vietnamese floating households and the floating markets, fisheries, clinics, schools, basketball course, pigsty and other boatloads of tourists.