As we all know that Siem Reap used to be capital city of Cambodia. Siem Reap always attracts tourists because it is located in Tonle Sap river’s bank and ancient secret Angkor where saves Cambodia’s traditional culture that tourists always like to discover. Visiting Siem Reap, you will have the chance of being back to an ancient Khmer Dynasty atmosphere. There are five attractive places where you should visit when you travel to Siem Reap. Indochina travel Cambodia
Siem Reap always has an ancient, mysterious and sacred beauty- source: internet
Visiting Angkor Wat
When we travel to Siem Reap, the first place that comes to our mind named Angkor Wat. Angkor Wat is the name of the most important relic to Siem Reap in particular and to Cambodia in general. It is regarded as an artistic masterpiece of Khmer architecture. Angkor Wat means the city of temples. Visiting Angkor Wat, you will be enchanted by the beautiful temples and the reliefs that are carved and vivid. Visiting Angkor Wat in the early morning, you will have chance of seeing the large and sparkling beauty of it under the light sunshine of the dawn.
Admire the dawn in Angkor Wat makes your mind peaceful-source: internet
From Siem Reap center, you can easily get a tuk tak, motorbike or rent a bicycle to get Angkor tourist complex. Angkor Wat is far from Siem Reap town 5.5 kilometers to the North and the center of Angkor Wat is Baphuon temple. Tuk tak is a popular mean of transport in Cambodia, so you can try this kind of transport in this country when travelling there. Cambodia travel packages
Visiting Angkor Thom
Angkor Thom is regarded as an ancient temple like Angkor Wat. The most highlight thing in Angkor Thom is that Bayon temple is located in the center of Angkor Thom. From Bayon, tourists can admire more than 200 giant faces with mysterious smiles and tourists are impressed by these faces. It also brings much emotion to tourists. Although Angkor Thom used to be ravaged by war and natural, many stones in Angkor Thom still have visible images of Buddha, Apsara dancers and delicate decorative motifs Angkor. These things make Angkor Thom deep impressive.
Mysterious smiles of stone faces in Angkor Thom make this place more attractive-source: internet
Ta Prohm temple
Ta Prohm temple is the most special temple in Angkor population in Cambodia. You can get tuk tak or motorbike to get Ta Prohm from Siem Reap. There is a fact that since when a film named “Lara Croft Tomb Raider” was made there with the participation of Angelina Jolie, Ta Prohm temple has been known by more tourists in all over the world. This temple was built in the end of century 12nd and the early of century 13rd with the first name is Rajavihara. This temple was used as a monastery and Mahayana Buddhism school at first. It is located in the East of Angkor Thom. It is not like most temples in Angkor, Ta Prohm used to be neglected from century XV when it had just been built. It has not been re-discovered until century XX. People supposed that this is a one of the reason that makes Ta Prohm temple more ancient; moreover, it is visited by many tourists every year.
Ta Prohm is covered by a giant tree; it makes Ta Prohm more mysterys-source: internet
Tonle Sap Lake
Tonle Sap is regarded as the world’s biosphere reserve area in 1997. Tonle Sap Lake was recognized as Travelling to Cambodia, Tonle Sap is the name that you should not forget because you will certainly be impressed by Tonle Sap’s beauty. Tonle Sap means large fresh water lake. Typically, Tonle Sap is translated into Big Lake in other languages. In Vietnam, people are used to calling Tonle Sap is Bien Ho (Bien Ho means a big freshwater lake as the sea). Through the name of Tonle Sap, we all know that this lake is so large and it also has an important role to Cambodia. Typically, in dry season (from November to next May) this lake is quite small and shallow, it is just about 1 meter deep and its acreage is about 10,000 kilometer square. In rainy season (from June to October), water flows from Mekong river into Tonle Sap. It makes Tonle Sap deeper, about 9 meters deep with a larger acreage, about 16,000 square kilometers. Tonle Sap Lake in rainy season is so ideal for fish. Thanks to Tonle Sap with water flow from Mekong River, Cambodia people have fish to eat and sell. Tonle Sap is not only meaningful in Cambodia tourism but also in people’s lives. Travelling to Siem Reap, you should not miss visiting Tonle Sap and immerse yourself in the peaceful life here.
Tonle Sap seems to be larger when the sun sets on this River-source: internet
Tonle Sap is just far from Siem Reap city center 30 minutes driving. Comparing with a noisy Siem Reap, Tonle Sap is a quiet place. Travelling to Tonle Sap, you will have the opportunity to explore the floating villages of the Vietnamese community and the Cham people living here.
Kulen Mountain and Linga River
Kulen Mountain and Linga River is far from Siem Reap center about 50 kilometers. Here is one of five places where you should visit when travelling to Siem Reap. Kulen Mountain is a sanctuary of the ancient Khmer ethnic. This place still brings many mysterious relics. Moreover, legendary river named Linga is said to be sacred with many carved Linga in the riverbed. There have many domestic tourists, foreign tourists and pilgrims come here to pray for happiness, mercy and wash away the sins.
Sacred Linga River makes us interested-source: internet
There have hundreds of temples that are scattered around Angkor- the World Cultural Heritage; however; you should spend your priority to visit 5 places above first to admire and have the most overarching feeling about Siem Reap and then you can spend time to visit other temples like Ta Keo, Banteay Kdei, Pre Rup or Phnom Bakheng temple when you travel to Siem Reap. There are many temples in Siem Reap and you should spend 3 days in Siem Reap to travel and visit the most famous places there.
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