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SIEM
REAP Angkor |
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A quiet town which keeps treasures... |
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Siem Reap center,
is a quiet recent town. It's from Siem Reap that one can visit
Angkor's site and its mythical temples, (Angkor page)
but also discover the lake Tonlé Sap ( Tonlé Sap), the old Siem Reap village, the markets, etc.
Siem reap is at 300 km from Phnom Penh. |
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Very alive and very colored
markets where you finds absolutely everything, in the center
of Siem Reap |
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The old Siem Reap Village |
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In the South of the modern city, the Old Siem Reap
Village kept the Cambodian traditions, his traditional houses
on pilotis, the paillottes and the norias. Fishes dry in front
of houses (left photo) and the life takes place there calmly
at the rythm of the seasons. To visit ..( Tonlé Sap
page)
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Several
pagodas and convents along the road of the old man Siem Reap,
the Cambodian are Buddhists and very practicing |
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The road of the lake,
fully of life, with many houses on pilotis and houses-boats throughout
the route. See Page
Tonle Sap |
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Roasted water snakes are sold on the
roadside to Phnom Khrom |
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Boat ride on the Tonle Sap lake |
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2 hours by boat on the
lake, in the discovery of the fishermans floating villages which
move according to the current and to the fish to sin. See
Page Tonlé
Sap |
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Fast boats
to (and from) Phnom Penh |
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Fast boats from
Siem Reap to Phnom Penh , a very pleasant means of transport.
See Page Tonle Sap |
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Means of transportation
to visit Siem Reap |
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Taxis, 4wd, and air-conditioned
cars, can accompany you everywhere, on the various archeological
sites, in the city or in Tonlé Sap. There's another very
simple and pleasant means of transport, the small motorcycles
taxis with driver, which drive you where you want, all day long.
Motorcycles for a person, or comfortable carriage for 2 persons
(left photo). We can also organize
you this means of transport |
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The drivers drive slowly and you can
appreciate the landscape |
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In the morning, you can make an elephant
riding, in comfortable palanquins, around the temple Prah Pitouh
and in after noon the ascent of Phnom Bakend |
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On the lake
Tonle Sap, à beautifull floating village named Prek Toal,
and an important bird sanctuary, with among the numerous birds
of the Pelican, Storks, and Big Marabouts. We can organize this
excursion of one day in Prek
Toal |
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