Cambodia » Bangkok to Angkor Wat and Back

Tour Highlight

Day I
- Pick up in Thailand
- Transfer onward to Siem Reap via Poipet border crossing
- Chong Kneah floating village
- Sunset at Phnom Bakheng Hill or at Pre Rup temple
Overnight at hotel in Siem Reap.

Day II
- Angkor Wat sunrise
- Small Circuit: Angkor Wat, Angkor Thom City, South Gate of Angkor Thom City, Bayon, Baphoun, Phimean Akas, Royal Palace, Elephant Terrace, Leper King Terrace, Prasat Suprot, Prasat Klieng, Victory Gate of Angkor Thom City, Tommanon, Chaosay Tevoda, Ta Keo, Ta Prohm, Banteay Kdei, Srah Srang, Krovan
- Private transfer to Phnom Penh
Overnight at hotel in Phnom Penh.

Day III
- Chhoeung Ek Killing Field Museum
- Toul Sleng S21 genocidal crimes museum
- Royal Palace, Silver Pagoda, National Museum
- Private transfer to Siem Reap
Overnight at hotel in Siem Reap.

Day IV
- Siem Reap markets
- Private transfer to Thailand
Tour Ends

Border crossing, Thai visa, Thai re-entry visa 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, WiFi, minivan, you will arrive at our office at border in Thailand. Upon arrival at our office, you will be met and welcomed by our border English speaking guide. The guide will take you to Thai immigration office to stamp your passports to leave Thailand. For our guests who need Thai re-entry visa, our guide will help you to proceed express Thai re-entry visa (express Thai re-entry visa fee 300 THB is at your own costs), and then take you across border to Cambodian immigration office to proceed your Cambodian visa on arrival.

Please bring your one recent passport-sized photo to receive your Cambodian visa on arrival (if you do not have a photo, you could pay 100 THB instead). The Cambodian visa on arrival fee is USD30. The administration fee is 100 THB. It approximately takes 10 minutes to complete (Cambodian visa and administration fees are at your own costs).

Cambodia eVisa: visit Cambodia eVisa website >>>

If you have an eVisa, please print out two copies of your eVisa. One is for entering and one is for leaving 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 Re-Entry permit:
- Flight ticket (fly out from Bangkok/Thailand)
- Hotel booking info or residency info
- One recent passport-sized photo
- Thai Baht (THB) cash in hand - 10.000 THB for a single traveler and/or 20.000 THB for a family traveling together.

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 takes less than two hours.

Upon arrival in Siem Reap, you will be met and welcomed by our English speaking guide, and check in to your hotel.

After check in to the hotel, your tour guide will take you for lunch at local restaurant or at hotel restaurant (lunch is at your own costs). After lunch, the guided tour will begin as per the itinerary.

Visitor Dress Code
Angkor is an active spiritual site for Buddhists and citizens who engage in daily worship, prayer and meditation. Revealing clothes such as shorts and skirts above the knees and showing bare shoulders are prohibited in sacred palaces. Respectful dress is strongly encouraged in Angkor due to the respects towards our community.
Cargo man short, cargo woman shorts and T-Shirt, cover knees and shoulders are recommended.

Currency
The official currency in Cambodia is Cambodian Riel. It trades at around 4,000 riel to one US dollar. The US dollar is Cambodia’s unofficial second currency; therefore, there is no need to change the money. In fact, it is best to carry US dollars with you while you are traveling in Siem Reap, Cambodia. There are ATM everywhere in Cambodia where you can withdraw US dollars.

Tour Payment
The payment for the tour can be made in either currencies, American dollars USD or Thai Baht THB or combination of USD and THB.

Creating Unique Touring Experiences
Our expert travel team has planned your trip so that you can experience the very best of what Cambodia and Thailand have to offer. We understand that many will have various needs and wants for each particular tour that may not be included in an itinerary. We will plan any tour to meet your particular demands. Please Send inquiry>>>

Feel free to contact us at
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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 & drop-off location
Can be anywhere on demand
- hotel in Bangkok
- upon arrival at Suvarnabhumi international airport in Bangkok
- upon arrival at Don Muang airport in Bangkok
- upon arrival at Moi Chit bus station in Bangkok
- upon arrival at train station in Bangkok
- upon arrival at boat pier Chao Phraya Express & Khlong Boats
- Laem Chabang port in Pattaya
- any hotel/AirBnB in Pattaya
- any cruise ship ports in Thailand
- hotel/AirBnB in Koh Chang
- hotel/AirBnB in Rayong
- hotel/AirBnB in Khao Yai
- any residences in Bangkok
- any provinces in south-eastern parts of Thailand.

Pick-up time: should be at 5am, but however if your tour is private, the pick-up/starting time is flexible, upon request.
Pick-up & drop-off info: kindly provide location where you are to be picked-up and dropped off, their addresses and phone numbers for our transfer company representative in Thailand to call for direction.

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, you will be met and welcomed by our transfer company representative in Thailand at your hotel in Thailand.

Please kindly provide location where you are to be picked up, its address and phone number for our transfer company representative in Thailand to call for direction?

And then picked up and chauffeured onward by our private luxury A/C, WIFI minivan to Poipet border. The border opens between 06:00am - 10:00pm.

Border crossing, Thai visa, Thai re-entry visa 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, WiFi, minivan, you will arrive at our office at border in Thailand. Upon arrival at our office, you will be met and welcomed by our border English speaking guide. The guide will take you to Thai immigration office to stamp your passports to leave Thailand. For our guests who need Thai re-entry visa, our guide will help you to proceed express Thai re-entry visa (express Thai re-entry visa fee 300 THB is at your own costs), and then take you across border to Cambodian immigration office to proceed your Cambodian visa on arrival.

Please bring your one recent passport-sized photo to receive your Cambodian visa on arrival (if you do not have a photo, you could pay 100 THB instead). The Cambodian visa on arrival fee is USD30. The administration fee is 100 THB. It approximately takes 10 minutes to complete (Cambodian visa and administration fees are at your own costs).

Cambodia eVisa: visit Cambodia eVisa website >>>

If you have an eVisa, please print out two copies of your eVisa. One is for entering and one is for leaving 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 Re-Entry permit:
- Flight ticket (fly out from Bangkok/Thailand)
- Hotel booking info or residency info
- One recent passport-sized photo
- Thai Baht (THB) cash in hand - 10.000 THB for a single traveler and/or 20.000 THB for a family traveling together.

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 takes less than 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 or at hotel 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.

Overnight at your hotel in Siem Reap.

DAY II - ANGKOR WAT SUNRISE, ANGKOR WAT, ANGKOR THOM, BAYON, TAPROHM, SMALL CIRCUIT AND PRIVATE TRANSFER TO PHNOM PENH
Angkor Wat Sunrise - at 5am, pick up for viewing the picturesque sunrise at Angkor Wat. Breakfast boxes could be taken from hotel or return to hotel for breakfast and start the tour again.

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.

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 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, Ta Keo 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 MUSEUN, 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.

Overnight at your hotel in Siem Reap.

DAY IV - SIEM REAP MARKETS 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 2pm, part ways with the tour guide and continue back to Poipet border on a private luxury A/C vehicle. Upon arrival at border, you will be met and welcomed by our border English speaking guide, and our border guide will take you to Cambodian immigration office to stamp your passports to leave Cambodia, and then take you across border to Thai immigration office to fill your Thai arrival cards, stamp your passports, and then take you straight to our office near border in Thailand, where our A/C, WIFI minivan is ready to chauffeur you back to your drop off location in Thailand.

Please kindly provide location where you are to be dropped off at, its address and phone number for our Thai driver to call for direction?
TOUR ENDS

INCLUDED
- Full transfers to and from Bangkok to Siem Reap, 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 in Siem Reap and in Phnom Penh
- Visa fees $30 (visa on arrival, please bring 1 of your recent passport-size photo to visit your Cambodia visa). South-East Asian passport holders do not require a Cambodian visa
- Drinks, laundry, telephone calls, tips and expenditure of a personal nature
- Personal travel insurance
- Any services not mentioned in itinerary.

Creating Unique Touring Experiences
Our expert travel team has planned your trip so that you can experience the very best of what Cambodia and Thailand have to offer. We understand that many will have various needs and wants for each particular tour that may not be included in an itinerary. We will plan any tour to meet your particular demands. Please Send inquiry>>>

Feel free to contact us at
WhatsApp: +85512 971 645
Email: poan45@gmail.com / info@cambodiatraveltrails.com

Price
Available upon request.

Included
- Full transfers to and from Bangkok to Siem Reap, 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 in Siem Reap and in Phnom Penh
- Visa fees $30 (visa on arrival, please bring 1 of your recent passport-size photo to visit your Cambodia visa). South-East Asian passport holders do not require a Cambodian visa
- Drinks, laundry, telephone calls, tips and expenditure of a personal nature
- Personal travel insurance
- Any services not mentioned in itinerary.

Creating Unique Touring Experiences
Our expert travel team has planned your trip so that you can experience the very best of what Cambodia and Thailand have to offer. We understand that many will have various needs and wants for each particular tour that may not be included in an itinerary. We will plan any tour to meet your particular demands. Please Send inquiry>>>

Feel free to contact us at
WhatsApp: +85512 971 645
Email: poan45@gmail.com / info@cambodiatraveltrails.com

Mr. Nick Hess - World Race logistic Cambodia Thailand Vietnam Laos Malaysia

From: United States
Posted Date: 11/Nov/2017

Great Travel Company for South East Asia! I traveled throughout South East Asia with a group of 43 and used Mr. Sohpoan Rath's travel company for most all of our travel in our four months in Thailand and Cambodia!

Here is a detailed review of each of our trips we used Mr. Sophoan Rath for:

November 11th Phnom Penh to Bangkok:

Everything went really smoothly and great! From Phnom Penh to the border on the bus and the minibus there was enough space for everyone and all of the bags! From the Border to Bangkok there was also enough space for everyone and all of the bags on each of the mini vans! Also having you there to translate and help direct us through the border was very helpful, and your english is very good! All in all was a very good trip!

January 6th Bangkok to Siem Reap:

This whole exchange was very smooth and very enjoyable for all. Being able to go all the way through from Bangkok to Siem Reap on the same bus and not have to carry our things through border control was very nice and we were all excited when we heard about this! On the bus and the mini van that we took all the way through there was enough space for everyone and all of the bags. Also having you there again to direct and translate was very helpful to the whole ordeal and making everything go smoothly! This trip went very well and was a very good experience!

February 6th Battambang to Kompong Thom:

This trip also went very smoothly! The pickup of the other 2 passengers in Siem Reap on the way went very well! There was enough space on the minibus for all of us and our bags. Also the driver spoke good enough english so that we could communicate a few things like stopping for lunch and things like that which was helpful! All in all this trip went well and was a good experience!

February 26th Kompong Thom to Siem Reap (4 to Battambang):

This trip went pretty well. The minivan from Kompong Thom to Siem Reap was a little tight for the 10 of us with all of our stuff, but for sure wasn't the worst by any means. After the 4 left in Siem Reap towards Battambang we had an easy time getting to the hostel we were staying at which was really good! The 4 that went to Battambang had a good experience and had no complaints!

March 4th Battambang to Siem Reap:

This trip went well as far as I am aware. I got no complaints or feedback of any sort. It was nice to have the extra car with the bus to haul all of the bags with everyone which was good! They made really good time from Battambang to which was really good! Then the whole ordeal with one of our guys leaving a lap top in the car went really well! Thanks so much again for helping us get that to us at the airport!

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Mr. Kyle Owen Teders TheTravelGuinea World Race logistic Cambodia Thailand Vietnam Laos Malaysia

From: United States
Posted Date: 31/May/2015

Large group of 44

We used this Agency and our tour Guide Sophoan was amazing and made the confusing and corrupt border cambodian crossing easy. We also used him later in the month to go from Siem Reap to Phonom Phen. Thank you!

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