Day Trip To Battambang From Siem Reap

Duration

1-day

From

$180/vehicle

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Day Trip To Battambang From Siem Reap is one of the great highlights of Cambodia. The trip will take you to explore many interesting places. To pass through the small villages close to everyday life in rural Cambodia including countryside scenery, rice fields, local market and animals as they say Battambang province is a Cambodian rice storeroom, you will see French colonial buildings, Hilltop Temple Phnom Banan, Phsar Prahok or Stinky Market, experience bamboo train ride, visit the view from Phnom Sampeau Killing Caves and Bat Cave before returning to Siem Reap in the evening.

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This trip is good to open up a child’s world to possibility and wonder. Powerful experiences lead to new interests, and exposure to different cultures, languages, and environments.

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You will be picked up from your hotel at 6:00 AM and head west towards the trading town of Svay Sisophon, then continue south to Battambang. As we get there, you walk around the city to admire the colonial era architecture.

After our city tour, we can experience the bamboo train ride, its first appearance in the early 1980s inspired by the small railway vehicles used by railway workers to carry out repairs, but today villagers use it as a convenient means of transport from the villages to the area near the centre of Battambang. Motors were added in the 1990s, powering the tanks with a rubber belt around the rear axle.

Then we visit Wat Samrong Knong, it was built in the 19th century on the site of a pre-Angkorian temple complex. The Khmer Rouge used the temple compound as a prison. The complex is now home to the magnificent main pagoda and a hodgepodge of ancient ruins, glittering modern structures and memorials to those who perished here.

We drive to Phsar Prahok or Stinky Market, this place has been selling prahok since the 1990s as it is located near a river which hosts various types of fish. Prahok is traditional Khmer cuisine and its ingredients, you wonder how they do it.

After lunch in town, we drive to the hilltop temple of Wat Banan, the mountaintop temple from the Angkor era is the best preserved of the Khmer temples in Battambang. The temple was built in the 11th century, there is a climb of 358 steps to the top where five towers stood precariously. We continue to Phnom Sampeau, a sacred mountain dotted with interesting pagodas and stupas. There is also a moving memorial to the victims of the Khmer Rouge who were thrown into one of the many caves that dot this sacred mountain. After visiting this view on the hill and later you will see the most spectacular 7 million bats flying out of the cave. Wrinkle-lipped bats fly up to 50 km from their roosts each night to hunt insects. Bats eat 50-100% of their own weight every night before returning home.

We will travel approximately 3 hours to Siem Reap.