Luxury holidays in Cambodia
Reach Angkor Wat at sunrise, while the stone is still cool and the moat holds the light. Share your dates, and we book your private guide, temple times and Siem Reap hotel.
It comes off your final price, and is refunded in full if you don't go ahead.
Cambodia
3 days · 2 nights
Siem Reap
Two full days among the temples of Angkor with a private guide and driver, from the smiling faces of the Bayon and the towers of Angkor Wat to the root-bound walls of Ta Prohm. The last morning is on the water, by boat among the floating villages of Tonle Sap, before your flight out.
Cambodia
4 days · 3 nights
Siem Reap
A simple stay in Siem Reap: you are met at the airport and settled into your hotel, and the next three days are yours. Explore the temples and the town at your own pace or spend the time by the pool, before a midday check-out and your transfer back to the airport.
Thailand
13 days · 12 nights
Chiang Rai → Chiang Mai → Sukhothai → Ayutthaya → Kanchanaburi → Bangkok → Siem Reap
A week of guided touring takes you from Chiang Rai and the Golden Triangle through Chiang Mai, Sukhothai, Ayutthaya and Kanchanaburi to Bangkok. After a free day in the capital you fly on to Siem Reap in Cambodia for three nights to see its temples at your own pace.
The temples are the reason most travellers come, and the way you see them matters. A private guide and driver collect you in the dark, so you are inside Ta Prohm or on the causeway at Angkor Wat while the light is soft and the paths are empty. By late morning you are back at your hotel in Siem Reap for a swim and a long lunch, ready for a sunset boat on the Tonle Sap.
Cambodia also rewards a few days beyond the temples. In the Cardamom Mountains, a jungle camp is reached by zipline over the river, with guides who walk you into the forest. On the southern coast, villas on the Koh Rong islands look over clear water, an easy finish before the short flight home through Bangkok or Singapore.
Each day is timed around the soft early light and the quiet hours at the temples.
Walk the carved corridors and inner courtyards of Angkor Wat as the sun comes up, then sit down to breakfast beside the old royal pool of Srah Srang.
Glide around the moat of Angkor's ancient walled city in a traditional wooden boat as the sky turns from pink to violet, with drinks and canapés on board.
Give the capital more than a stopover, with a guide who shows you its galleries, design shops and riverside cafes alongside the history that shaped them.
Ride a private remork, a carriage pulled by a motorbike, between Siem Reap's best tables, cocktail bars and home-style supper spots.
Drive past rice paddies into the countryside to meet a local family and see how a clean water project has changed daily life in the village.
Give Angkor Wat and the jungle temples a morning each, then save an evening for the lake.
The largest temple of the Angkor complex, best seen at sunrise from across its moat, then explored gallery by gallery with your guide.
The Bayon's carved stone faces inside the walled city of Angkor Thom, and Ta Prohm, where tree roots wrap the ruins.
A relaxed riverside town of markets and restaurants, with stilt villages on the Tonle Sap lake a short drive away.
The cooler, drier season brings the easiest temple days, and the green season brings fuller moats and fewer people.
Dry, sunny and comfortable, ideal for long days at Angkor.
Dry and warming, with clear sunrises over Angkor Wat.
Hot and dry, so plan temple visits for the early morning.
The hottest month, with Khmer New Year celebrations mid April.
Very hot, with the first monsoon storms late in the day.
Green season begins, with short heavy showers and fewer visitors at the temples.
Monsoon rain most afternoons, with the moats and lake full and green.
Wet and humid, with quiet temples in the mornings.
The wettest month, with flooding possible around the Tonle Sap.
Rains begin to ease, and the countryside is at its greenest.
Dry season returns, and the temples are framed by green rice fields.
Cool, dry and the most popular month at Angkor, so book early.
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