Itinerary Details
Cambodia Optional Extension (3 days)
After breakfast in Hanoi, you will be transferred to the airport for the noon flight to Siem Reap (cost of flight not included).
Upon arrival at Siem Reap International Airport, you will be welcomed by the new Rahhalah representative who will transfer you to the hotel. In the afternoon, you will visit Siem Reap Old Market and have free time to explore the Night Market and Pub Street.
Accommodation in Siem Reap: Lynnaya Urban River Resort & Spa **** or similar
Today, you will explore some of Angkor’s most beautiful temples, including the Angkor Thom City. You will start at the South Gate and the centerpiece of the ancient city: the Bayon, with its 54 towers decorated with more than 200 enigmatic smiling faces. You will then move towards the Royal Enclosure, Phimeanakas, the Terrace of Elephants, the Terrace of Leper Kings, and the Ta Prohm Temple.
In the afternoon, you will enter Angkor Wat to admire its amazing architecture and history. Angkor Wat possesses some of the most extended and most intricate stone carvings. This complex is four times the size of the Vatican City and, thus, the largest religious site in the world. Spend the rest of the day exploring its numerous passages, levels, and chambers that once housed many treasures of the ancient world. You will finish the day at Pre Rup for a magnificent sunset.
At dinner at Kannel Restaurant, you will also have the opportunity to enjoy a show by classical Apsara dancers depicting scenes from Khmer mythology.
Accommodation in Siem Reap: Lynnaya Urban River Resort & Spa **** or similar
After breakfast, you will embark on the exhilarating adventure of the Flight of the Gibbon: a zip-line eco-adventure tour at the Angkor Archeological Park. With 15 ziplines placed in different heights, suspended sky bridges, and a chance to abseil from a tree, this activity promises to boost your adrenaline levels as you soar over the jungle canopy like a gibbon!
Special notes: Maximum weight 125 kg; not suitable for children under 5-year old or 1 m height; no sandals permitted.
In the afternoon, you will go for a fun and exciting horseback ride that will offer you an authentic taste of the real Khmer life. The horses will take you to places that are otherwise unreachable, through local countryside villages, scenic rice fields and tourist-free temple ruins, all waiting to be explored.
Later, you will be transferred to the Siem Reap airport for your flight back home.
Recommended afternoon departure flight.