Tour Name: Bangkok to Angkor Wat to Phnom Penh and Back Tour 4d3n
Tour Code: BA4-A
Tour Duration: 4 days / 3 nights
Tour Operates: all year round / on demand
Number of Pax: upon request
Tour Price: available upon request
Pick-up time on day I: at 5am (but flexible and available upon request) at your preferred pick up location in Thailand
Hotel in Siem Reap: at guest's own reservation
Hotel in Phnom Penh: at guest's own reservation
Drop-off time on day IV: earliest at 10:30am and onward to 10pm, at your preferred drop off location in Thailand
Kindly let us know your pick-up information when you have it available?
Pick up location is flexible, available upon request, includes:
Hotel, Airbnb and residence in Bangkok
Upon arrival at Bangkok Suvarnabhumi International Airport BKK
Upon arrival at Bangkok Don Muang International Airport DMK
Upon arrival at Moi Chit bus station in Bangkok
Upon arrival at train station in Bangkok
Upon arrival at Chao Phraya express boat pier
Upon arrival at Klong Tei boat pier
Upon arrival at any boat pier in Bangkok
Upon arrival at Laem Chabang cruise port in Pattaya
Upon arrival at Central Point Koh Chang boat pier
Hotel, Airbnb and residence in Pattaya
Hotel, Airbnb and residence in Koh Chang
Hotel, Airbnb and residence in Rayong
Hotel, Airbnb and residence in Chantaburi
Hotel, Airbnb and residence in Khao Yai
Hotel, Airbnb and residence in South-Eastern of Thailand
And more...
Kindly let us know your drop-off information when you have it available?
Drop off location is flexible, available upon request, includes:
Hotel, Airbnb and residence in Bangkok
Bangkok Suvarnabhumi International Airport BKK
Bangkok Don Muang International Airport DMK
Moi Chit bus station in Bangkok
Train station in Bangkok
Chao Phraya express boat pier
Klong Tei boat pier
Any boat pier in Bangkok
Laem Chabang cruise port in Pattaya
Central Point Koh Chang boat pier
Hotel, Airbnb and residence in Pattaya
Hotel, Airbnb and residence in Koh Chang
Hotel, Airbnb and residence in Rayong
Hotel, Airbnb and residence in Chantaburi
Hotel, Airbnb and residence in Khao Yai
Hotel, Airbnb and residence in South-Eastern of Thailand
And more...
Day I - Pick up in Thailand, transfer onward to Siem Reap, visit Chong Kneah floating village and Phnom Bakheng Hill sunset or Pre Rup temple sunset
In the morning - at 5am (but flexible and available upon request), you will be met and welcomed by our transfer company representative in Thailand at your hotel in Thailand.
Kindly let us know your pick up information when you have it available?
And then picked up and chauffeured onward by our private luxury A/C minivan to Poi Pet border. The border opens between 06:00am - 10:00pm.
Border crossing procedure, Thai Visa, Thai Re-Entry Permit and Cambodian Visa on Arrival formality
Pick up time is at 5am, but flexible. Feel free to let us know your availability and best convenient.
After three and half an hour (includes one toilet stop) chauffeured by our private luxury A/C minivan, you will arrive at our office at border in Thailand where you will be met and welcomed by our local border English speaking guide. Our guide will take you to Thailand immigration departure checkpoint to stamp your passports to leave Thailand. For our guests who is eligible for Thailand Re-Entry Permit, our guide will help to apply in person using express service. The fee for express service is 300 THB cash and is at your own costs. Then take you across border to Cambodia immigration arrival checkpoint to proceed your Cambodia Visa on Arrival.
Please bring one of your recent passport-sized photos to receive your Cambodian Visa on Arrival (if you do not have a photo, you can pay 100 THB cash instead). Your Cambodian Visa on Arrival fee is USD30 cash (at your own costs) with its administration fee is 100 THB cash (at your own costs). It approximately takes 10 minutes to complete.
Cambodia eVisa: visit Cambodia eVisa website >>>
If you have an eVisa, please kindly print out and bring two copies of them with you. One physical copy is required at Cambodia immigration arrival checkpoint for entering Cambodia and one physical copy is required at Cambodia immigration departure checkpoint for departing Cambodia.
The South-East Asian country passport holders do not need a visa to enter South-East Asian countries, including Cambodia and Thailand.
Thailand Visa Exemption: visit Thai visa exemption website >>>
Thailand Visa on Arrival - apply in person: visit Thai visa on arrival website >>>
Thailand Re-Entry Permit - apply in person: visit Thai Re-Entry permit website >>>
Thai Re-Entry permit can be issued at Thai immigration at the border. When you are exiting Thailand, you can apply for your Re-Entry permit at the immigration counter. You will get your Re-Entry permit before you leave. You can enter Thailand with that permit from Cambodia at same border.
Required documents for your Thai Visa on Arrival and/or Re-Entry permit:
Please kindly prepare and bring with you includes:
- Physical copy on paper of your flight ticket (flight within or flight out of Thailand)
- Physical copy on paper of your Thailand hotel booking confirmation
- One photo passport-sized
- Visa on Arrival fee can be vary between 1000 Thai Baht and 2000 Thai Baht
- Recommended to exchange your $100 into Thai Baht cash. Due to some Thai local vendors do not accept credit card and therefore Thai Baht cash is needed to show immigration in case you are asked.
Please do not hesitate to inform your tour guide in Siem Reap to print all required documents for you before returning back to border (if you have not had them printed yet).
After completion of border crossing, you will be chauffeured on a private luxury AC vehicle by our Cambodian driver to Siem Reap, Cambodia. The drive approximately takes two hours.
Siem Reap - is the provincial capital of Siem Reap province. This small town crossed by a river coming from the Kulen Mountain is the gateway for the visit of the Angkor Park which is over 400 km2 and is home of more than 100 temples dating from the 9th to 13th century.
Upon arrival in Siem Reap, you will be met and welcomed by our English speaking guide and then check in to your hotel.
After check in to hotel, transfer for lunch at local restaurant (lunch is at your own cost)
Chong Kneah floating village - after lunch, transfer to the Phnom Krom pier for boat on Tonle Sap Lake to visit floating village of Chong Khneah at the edge of Tonle Sap Lake. Cambodia’s Great Lake, the Boueng Tonle Sap (Tonle Sap Lake) is the most prominent feature on the map of Cambodia – a huge dumbbell-shaped body of water stretching across the northwest section of the country. In the wet season, the Tonle Sap Lake is one of the largest freshwater lakes in Asia, swelling to an expansive 12,000km2. During the dry, half of the year the lake shrinks to as 3000 km2, draining into the Tonle Sap River, which meanders southeast eventually merging with the Mekong River at the “Chaktomuk” confluence of river opposite Phnom Penh.
Return to Siem Reap after watching sunset over the top of Phnom Bakheng Hill. Dominating the flat landscape, this 10th Century mountain temple is the most popular spot in the area to watch a classic sunset over Angkor Wat and the surrounding forest or
Watching sunset at Pre Rup temple, a Hindu temple, built as the state temple of king Rajendravarman and dedicated in 961. It is a temple mountain of combined brick, laterite and sandstone construction. The temple’s name is a comparatively modern one meaning "turn the body". This reflects the common belief among Cambodians that funerals were conducted at the temple, with the ashes of the body being ritually rotated in different directions as the service progressed.
During the night of your stay in Siem Reap, you can enjoy Siem Reap nightlife, night markets, foods and other fun activities in Siem Reap downtown, Pub Street areas and city formerly French colonial head quarter.
Overnight at your hotel in Siem Reap.
Day II - Angkor Wat sunrise, Angkor Wat, Angkor Thom, Bayon, Ta Prohm, Small Circuit and private transfer to Phnom Penh
Angkor Wat Sunrise - at 5am, pick up for viewing the picturesque sunrise at Angkor Wat.
Angkor Wat - after sunriset, visit the magnificent temple built by Suryavarman II in the early 12th century. Angkor Wat symbolizes Mount Meru, home of the gods, and considered the pinnacle of Khmer architecture. This Vishnuite temple is the King’s funerary temple, which is why the temple is oriented to the west. Inside the temple the walls are covered by carvings and bas-reliefs depicting the Hindu mythology and the wars during the reign of Suryavarman II. As well, Angkor Wat is well-known for the 1800 Apsara dancers decorating the temple. It is said to take a lifetime to discover all the wonders of this temple.
Return to hotel for breakfast
Angkor Thom City complex - after breakfast, continue transfer to Great City of Angkor Thom, the last capital of the Great Khmer Empire under the reign of Jayavarman VII. This city is surrounded by an 8 m high wall; each side of the city is 3 kilometers long. It draws a perfect square you access this town through 5 gates, 4 of them represent the cardinal points and the 5th one the Victory Gate was the one leading directly to the Royal Palace Area.
You will arrive via the South Gate, an impressive stone gate carved with Elephants and 4 giant faces. On each side is a row of 54 gods or demons holding the sacred Naga snake.
After passing through the South Gate, you will go down along this shady road to the Bayon temple. This temple lies exactly in the center of the city. The particularity of this monument is the 54 towers representing the 54 provinces of the then Great Khmer Empire. Each tower has 4 faces. This is the only temple in Cambodia depicting scenes of the everyday life at the time of the empire.
From the Bayon continue by walk to the Baphoun recently re-opened to the public. There you will pass by the Phimeanakas the location of the Royal Palace. The only remaining are a pound and a temple. The palace was made of wood and did not survive the time and the wars.
Then continue to the Terrace of the Elephants. This Terrace was the place where the parade was done for the king. Next is the Terrace of the Leper King, depicting the water world.
Ta Prohm (known today as Tobm Raider temple) & small circuit - continues to Ta Prohm - one of the most popular temples of the Angkor Complex. This temple was built in the memory of the King Jayavarman VII’s mother. When found by the French conservators at the end of the 19th century, they deliberately left this temple in the same condition as it was discovered, overgrown by strangler fig and silk-cotton trees, giving the temple a mystical and romantic appeal.
Your visit will also include Ta Keo, Banteay Kdei, a Buddhist monastery from the late 12th century, and Srah Srang, also known as the "pool of ablution", the identical twin temples of Tommanon and Chaosay Tevoda, and Krovan temple.
Lunch at local restaurant (at your own costs)
Private transfer from Siem Reap to Phnom Penh - at 4pm, part ways with the tour guide, you will be chauffeured by private luxury A/C vehicle to Phnom Penh.
Please kindly provide your hotel in Phnom Penh, address and phone number for our driver to call for direction?
Upon arrival in Phnom Penh, check in to your hotel.
Overnight at your hotel in Phnom Penh.
Day III - Chhoeung Ek Killing Field Museum, Toul Sleng S21 Genocide Museum, Royal Palace, Silver Pagoda, National Museum and Private transfer to Siem Reap
Chhoeung Ek Killing Field Museum - in the morning, after breakfast at the hotel, you will be met and welcomed by our English speaking guide, and then picked up and trasnferred onward to visit Chhoeung Ek Killing Field Meseum, mass graves containing 8,895 bodies were discovered at Choeung Ek after the fall of the Khmer Rouge regime. Many of the dead were former political prisoners who were kept by the Khmer Rouge in their Tuol Sleng detention center and in other Cambodian detention centers.
Today, Choeung Ek is a memorial, marked by a Buddhist stupa. The stupa has acrylic glass sides and is filled with more than 5,000 human skulls. Some of the lower levels are opened during the day so that the skulls can be seen directly. Many have been shattered or smashed in.
Tourists are encouraged by the Cambodian government to visit Choeung Ek. Apart from the stupa, there are pits from which the bodies were exhumed. Human bones still litter the site.
On May 3, 2005, the Municipality of Phnom Penh announced that they had entered into a 30-year agreement with JC Royal Co. to develop the memorial at Choeung Ek. As part of the agreement, they are not to disturb the remains still present in the field.
Toul Sleng S21 Genocide Meseum - continue to Toul Sleng S21 Genocide Museum, when the Khmer Rouge came to power in 1975 they converted a former high school in the suburbs of Phnom Penh into a detention and torture center known as Toul Sleng, or S-21. A genocide museum was established at Tulo Sleng after 1979 and today it remains as it looked when abandoned by the Khmer Rouge. Hundreds of faces of those tortured line the walls inside the old school. Most of the 17,000 people detained at Toul Sleng were eventually transported to Choeung Ek, a mass gravesite located 15 km outside Phnom Penh. Known to locals as the Killing Field, Choeung Ek serves as a memorial to those killed under the Khmer Rouge rule. These sites can be extremely distressing, but are essential part of understanding Cambodia’s tragic past.
Lunch at local restaurant (at your own costs)
Royal Palace - Silver Pagoda - after lunch, visit to Royal Palace, built in 1866 by His Majesty Preah Bat Norodom, the Royal Palace is now home to his Majesty Preah Bat Nodom Sihamony and his mother, her majesty Preah Reach Akka-Mohesey Norodom Monineat. Most of the buildings inside the palace are closed to the public, except for special occasions. Also within the palace walls is the Silver Pagoda, which draws its name from the 5,000 silver tiles that pave its floor. Inside the pagoda there are hundreds of gifts to Cambodian king, including a solid-gold Buddha encrusted with 9,584 diamonds weighing 90 kilograms. For those who love shopping, there are several markets that offer handicraft, silk, silver ware, wood carving, precious stones from the country's famous mines, as well as antique furniture and paintings by local artists.
National Museum - continue visit to National Museum, located just north of the Royal Palace, the National Museum was recently rested to its former glory as one of the finest examples of Khmer architecture. On display there are more than 5,000 artifacts and objects of 'art from the 6th to the 13th centuries. They include sandstone sculptures, royal barges, palanquins and silk, intricately woven with silver and gold threads. There are also rare religious objects in gold, silver and bronze.
Private transfer from Phnom Penh to Siem Reap - at 5pm, part ways with the tour guide, you will be chauffeured by a private luxury A/C vehicle to Siem Reap. Upon arrival in Siem Reap, check in to your hotel.
During the night of your stay in Siem Reap, you can enjoy Siem Reap nightlife, night markets, foods and other fun activities in Siem Reap downtown, Pub Street areas and city formerly French colonial head quarter.
Overnight at your hotel in Siem Reap.
Day IV - Siem Reap market and private transfer to Bangkok
In the morning, after breakfast at your hotel, it's time for shopping at the Artisans d'Angkor, where you can observe young Cambodians being trained in the making of traditional crafts and Siem Reap market, Pouk silk farm.
Lunch at local restaurant (at your own costs)
Returning time - at 4pm (but flexible and available upon request), part ways with the tour guide, you will be chauffeured back to Poi Pet border on a private luxury A/C vehicle. Upon arrival at border, you will be met and welcomed by our border English speaking guide. Our border guide will escort you to the door of Cambodia immigration departure checkpoint to stamp your passports to leave Cambodia and then escort you across border to the door of Thailand immigration arrival checkpoint to fill your Thailand arrival cards, stamp your passports to enter Thailand and then take you straight to our office near border in Thailand where our luxury A/C minivan is ready to chauffeur you back to your preferred drop off location in Thailand.
Kindly let us know your drop off information when you have it available?
Tour Ends
Price
- Available upon request.
Included
- Full transfers to and from Bangkok to Siem Reap to Phnom Penh by private luxury A/C vehicle with driver only
- Escorted by English speaking guide for border crossing and visa on arrival formality
- English speaking guide for guided tour in Angkor park
- English speaking guide for guided tour in Phnom Penh
- All entrance fee for mentioned visit.
Excluded
- Meals not mentioned
- Accommodation
- Visa on Arrival fee $30. Please bring one of your recent passport-size photos to visit your Cambodia Visa on Arrival. South-East Asian passport holders do not require a visa to enter Cambodia
- Drinks, laundry, telephone calls, tips and expenditure of a personal nature
- Personal travel insurance
- Any services not mentioned in itinerary.
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