Day 1: Phnompenh Arrive

Arrive Phnompenh meet your guide at the airport and transfer to your hotel in Phnompenh.

Afternoon, Visit the Royal Palace, built by King Norodom in 1866 on the site of the old town, and the Silver Pagoda. Located within the grounds of the Royal Palace, the Silver Pagoda is so named because of its floor, which is made up of 5,000 silver tiles. The treasures found inside include a solid gold Buddha encrusted and weighing 90 kilograms and a small 17th century emerald and baccarat crystal Buddha. End your afternoon with the visit of the Wat Phnom temple, Phnom Penh’s namesake, from where you can enjoy views over the tree-lined avenues of the city during sunset. Accommodation at hotel. 

Day 2 (Monday) :  Phnom Penh - Kompong Chhnang (B, L, D) 
Breakfast at your hotel.

Embark at the pier in Phnom Penh at 8:00 am. Welcome on board of R/V Toum Teav and departure for our cruise on the Tonle Sap River to Oudong. Visit of Oudong, then stop at Prek Kdam to visit a small silver handicraft village. Lunch on board on the way to Kampong Tralach, stop and visit its wonderful pagoda. Dinner and overnight on board.

Day 3 (Tuesday) :  Kompong Chhnang - Kompong Luong (B, L, D)

Sail to Kompong Chhnang to visit the market and a pottery village. Sail to Chnok Tru, the last big village before the River meets the Great Lake of Tonle Sap. Lunch on-board. Continue to Kompong Luong, one of the largest floating villages on the Lake. Dinner and overnight on board while anchored at Kompong Luong.

Day 4 (Wednesday): Kompong Luong - Siem Reap (B)

Half day sailing on the Great Lake of Tonle Sap. Relax in the library or on the deck salon prior to arrival in Siem Reap. Sail along a small canal, flocked with crowded floating houses, before reaching Phnom Kroum. Pick – up at the pier in Siemreap & transfer to your hotel.  

Afternoon, Visit Preah Khan temple. Built by the King Jayavarman VII, Preah Khan is, like Ta Prohm, a place of towered enclosures and shoulder-hugging corridors. Unlike Ta Prohm, however, Preah Khan is in a reasonable state of preservation and ongoing restoration efforts should maintain and even improve this situation. Continue your visits to Neak Pean, a fountain built in the middle of a pool and representing the paradisiacal Himalayan mountain-lake, and visit as well Ta Som and Srah Srang (“The Royal Baths”), undoubtedly used in the past for ritual bathing. 

Day 5: Siemreap (B, D)

Breakfast at hotel.

In the morning, visit the most famous of all the temples on the plain of Angkor: Angkor Wat. The temple complex covers 81 hectares and is comparable in size to the Imperial Palace in Beijing. Its distinctive five towers are emblazoned on the Cambodian flag and the 12th century masterpiece is considered by art historians to be the prime example of classical Khmer art and architecture. Angkor Wat’s five towers symbolize Meru’s five peaks - the enclosed wall represents the mountains at the edge of the world and the surrounding moat, the ocean beyond.  

Afternoon, Visit the ancient capital of Angkor Thom (12th century). See the South Gate with its huge statues depicting the churning of the ocean of milk, the Royal Enclosure, Phimeanakas, the Elephants Terrace, the Terrace of the Leper King and Bayon temple (unique for its 54 towers decorated with over 200 smiling faces of Avolokitesvara), until sunset.

Dinner at Apsara Theatre & Overnight in Siemreap. 

Day 6: Siemreap (B)

Breakfast at the hotel.

In the morning, visit Prasat Kravan with its unique brick sculptures and Ta Prohm. One of the area’s most beautiful temples, Ta Prohm has been relatively untouched since it was discovered and retains much of its mystery. Its appeal lies in the fact that, unlike the other monuments of Angkor, it was abandoned and swallowed by the jungle, looking very much the ways most of the Angkor temples appeared when European explorers first stumbled upon them. Visit as well Takeo, Chau Say Tevoda and Thommanon.  

Afternoon, transfer to the airport for your flight onward.