4D3N Discover Phnom Penh (Private)

4D3N Discover Phnom Penh (Private)

ITINERARY

Day 1: Arrival-Phnom Penh (Lunch/Dinner)

Arrive at Phnom Penh International Airport. On arrival your local English-speaking guide will meet you for the transfer to visit the Wat Phnom, where is on the only ‘hill’ in town. According to legend, the first pagoda on this site was erected in 1373 to house four statues of Buddha deposited here by the waters of the Mekong River and discovered by Penh before check in your hotel. After having lunch at local restaurant, we 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 5000 silver tiles and the Central Market (Phsar Thmei) in Phnom Penh is one of those busy bazaars that are always filled with effervescent crowd from one end to the other. The Central Market (Phsar Thmei) of Phnom Penh stocks everything right from food items to clothes; silverworks and jewelries until have dinner at local restaurant and overnight in Phnom Penh.

Day 2: Phnom Penh (Breakfast/Lunch/Dinner)

After having breakfast at hotel, visit to the Notorious Tuol Sleng Museum, In 1975 Tuol Svay Prey High School was taken over by Pol Pot's security forces and turned into a prison known as Security Prison 21 (S-21) and the Killing Fields are a number of sites in Cambodia where collectively more than a million people were killed and buried by the communist Khmer Rouge regime, during its rule of the country from 1975 to 1979, immediately after the end of the Cambodian Civil War (1970–1975). After having lunch at local restaurant, we visit the Russian Market of Phnom Penh stocks everything right from food items to clothes, silverworks and jewelries, the former king Norodom Sihanouk Statue, the Independence Monument or Vimean Ekareach – as it is referred to in Khmer, is a majestic structure that dominates Phnom Penh city center. Independence Monument was primarily erected to mark the liberation of the country from the French who ruled Cambodia for almost a century from 1863 to 1953 and the Cambodia-Vietnam Friendship Monument. It was built in the late 1970's to commemorate the cordial relationship between Cambodia and Vietnam until we have dinner at local restaurant and overnight in Phnom Penh.

Day 3: Phnom Penh (Breakfast)

After having breakfast at hotel, we take an overland excursion along the way to Ou Dong Mountain stopover in Phnom Praset, visit the Pre-Angkorian temple (8th Century) and the pagoda to view the reclining Buddha. Enjoy the beautiful view of the surrounding plains and rice-fields from the hilltop temple. Continue driving to Ou Dong where enjoy picnic lunch on your own orders and expenses. Afternoon, we visit the various temples and the three large stupas where the ashes of three former kings are preserved. Next visit the Vihara of 18 Cubit Buddha until we transfer you back to your hotel and overnight in Phnom Penh (Lunch and dinner are not included but our guide can take you to have it).

Day 4: Phnom Penh-Departure (Breakfast)

After having breakfast at hotel, it’s free on your own leisure until transfer to Phnom Penh International Airport for your departure (driver only)

HOTELS

• 3*: Pacific Hotel / ibis Budget Riverside 
• 4*: Ohana Phnom Penh Palace Hotel / Capri by Fraser Phnom Penh 
  
• 5*: Sokha Phnom Penh Hotel / Palace Gate Phnom Penh 

PACKAGE EXCLUDES

• International flights, visa & travel insurance
• Personal items and gratuities

PACKAGE INCLUDES

• 3 nights' accommodation in chosen hotel category
• Daily breakfast and meals as per itinerary
• Private air-conditioned transportation
• All sightseeing and entrance fees
• Local English-speaking guide