2 Days Heritage Temple Tour-Small Group

Itinerary

Day 1: Full day of Angkor Wat Temple with Sunrise

Stop At: Angkor Wat, Siem Reap 17254 Cambodia
We start with a pre-dawn departure (4.30 to 5.00 am based on enough time of year) from your own resort for sunrise outside Angkor Wat. Enter the fantastic temple in darkness from the little-visited eastern part, and creep along hoary cloistered corridors at night longest extend of bas-alleviation carvings in the globe.

Absorb the atmosphere of dawn in Angkor, from the advantage of 1 of the historic library pools. We after that explore the inside of the fantastic temple, spending an intensive two hours finding the corridors, central chambers and upper terraces of the truly great temple. Your expert local direct will decipher the many tales behind the bas-comfort carvings, and present you an insight into existence during the elevation of the Khmer empire.

We end our touring at Angkor with breakfast beyond your temple (eliminate, from your own hotel), and a brief rest. Continue the morning hours by go to the southern Gate of Angkor Thom, flanked by a row of 54 stone numbers on each aspect - gods left and demons to the proper - and the fortified town of Angkor Thom. At ‘The Bayon’ (12th century) we find its superbly crafted central towers, protected in a lot more than 200 tremendous faces, then explore the popular Terrace of the Leper King, and the Terrace of Elephants.

Enjoy lunch in your own expenditure, and an escape break before move to the jungle-enveloped Ta Prohm - probably the most atmospheric of most temples in Angkor. Once house to 2,740 monks, Ta Prohm today appears much since it did in the first 1850s, when French explorer Henri Mouhot ‘rediscovered’ this crumbling site. After discovering the maze-like interior of Ta Prohm, go back to your resort after an extended but fulfilling day, that may leave you with an eternity of memories of 1 of wonders of the globe.

Duration: 8 hours

No meals included on this day.
No accommodation included on this day.

Day 2: Full day of Banteay Srei Temples & Big Circuite

Stop At: Banteay Srei, Siem Reap Cambodia
Today we go to the most interesting temples outside Angkor Thom city. Departing your resort at 8.00 am, you start with first visit Pre Rup Hindu temple built as the condition temple of Khmer king Rajendravarman and dedicated in 961 or early 962. It really is a temple mountain of mixed brick, laterite and sandstone building.

Continue a drive for the carved and well-preserved Banteay Srei intricately. The detailed reliefs upon this smaller sandstone framework are thought to be the finest, most crafted in Cambodia skillfully. Banteay Srei has just been accessible because the late 1990s, when the Khmer Rouge remaining the area. We end our touring at Angkor with lunch time at the temple (personal expense), and a brief rest.

Continue the afternoon by shifting to Preah Khan temple, a ruined yet highly atmospheric mélange of tree roots and crumbling stone structures. Construction of the site was commissioned by the fantastic 'temple builder' Jayavaraman VII (in honour of his dad) and a check out to the smaller site produces a fascinating contrast with the even more imposing Angkor Wat. Preah Khan happens to be getting restored by the Globe Monument Fund and in locations is in remarkably good shape. Late afternoon go back to city after a memorable day time exploration.

Duration: 8 hours

No meals included on this day.
No accommodation included on this day.