Tbeng Cambodia Camping Tour – 6 Days

Description

Brief Introduction

Tour Route: Siem Reap – Tbeng village – Siem Reap
Tour Types: Explore and Experience
Guides: Local Guide (English Speaking Guide, Other Languages upon Request)
Transportation: Private first-class air-conditioned vehicles
Accommodation: Traditional longhouse accommodation

Brief Itinerary

Day 1: Tbeng Village Arrival
Day 2: Community services
Day 3: Habitat Restoration – Farming Skills
Day 4: Tbeng Camp – Phnom Koulen Mountain
Day 5: Phnom Koulen Mountain – Beng Mealea
Day 6: Departure

Full Itinerary

Day 1: Tbeng Village Arrival

Upon the arrival at Siem Reap International Airport, you will receive a warm welcome from our local guide and then transfer to the center city to check-in the homestays. It may take you 30 minutes to drive there, so our driver will supply you with a very interesting brief about Tbeng landscapes, its culture, customs, people as well as the lifestyle on the way. It is for sure you are so tired after a long flight, take a short rest before exploring Tbeng cuisine.

In the afternoon, local people will show you how to make the tastiest cuisine including fire chicken, taro, etc. Let’s enjoy dinner with the most delicious food made on your own.

Overnight in traditional longhouse!

Day 2: Community Services

After breakfast, we head off with our guide to take part in community service projects, helping others and making a life-lasting impact. At Camp Tbeng, we provide you with many distinguished service opportunities with a view to both giving you a chance to make a difference and experiencing a real lifestyle which you simply read about in the news. Have an opportunity to join construction projects to know more important infrastructure and help the local here get a better life. Have a picnic lunch with local people.

Afterward, you will participate in lots of activities with disabled children and children who have been orphaned, volunteering in local schools, beautification projects or active participation with local youth through play or the arts. The impact on the local community is significant, but your change is exponential. Overnight in the homestay!

Day 3: Habitat Restoration – Farming Skills

To remark more interesting experiences, our guide will pick you up after breakfast to explore how to restore habitat in the Tbeng Village. You will help locals by replenishing the landscapes by planting sources of food like banana and mango trees.

After a picnic lunch, it is an amazing time for you to experience traditional rural life as a real local person. You can directly try your hand at farming skills such as planting and harvesting crops, fishing, and riding buffaloes. You will have a chance to penetrate the harsh lives’ residents but they always keep an optimistic spirit. Overnight in the homestay.

Day 4: Tbeng Camp – Phnom Koulen Mountain

The fourth day is a gorgeous day out to join a cycling tour. After breakfast to absorb huge energy, you are ready to conquer Phnom Koulen Mountain by bike with our local guide (30km uphill). Phnom Kulen is known as the birthplace of the Khmer Empire where King Jayavarman II was crowned as ‘God-king’. Along the way to the peak of the mountain, you will admire 1000 uniquely carved lingas lying on the river bed and banks of the gentle River of the Lingas as well as showing Cambodian’s spirit.

Further down is a lovely waterfall where you and your families can dip into the refreshingly cool water. Especially, you will have a chance to admire the view of the film studio “Lara Croft: Tomb Raider movie” here. It is quite close to the picnic area for you to enjoy lunch. After that, you will uphill to the Preah Ang Thom Temple at the top of Koulen Moutain to admire the largest reclining Buddha made of sandstone in Cambodia. It is necessary to take your shoes off before entering the temple.

Overnight at your campsite of Phnom Koulen Mountain

Day 5: Phnom Koulen Mountain – Beng Mealea

Enjoy breakfast, and then transfer to Srah Damrei (Pond of Elephant) filled with massive sandstone-carved animals. You will have a strong impression on the ancient Khmer sculpture accompanied by a couple of lions and remnants of some other animals. Afterward, we will downhill to SrokSvayleou and explore a local market here. Have lunch in the market to taste some specialties here.

Cycle to Beng Mealea Temple built as a Hindu temple. Beng Mealea meaning “Lotus pond” preserves some carvings depicting Hindu motifs. In addition to its unique architecture, you will get a better understanding of the Hinduism.

Overnight in the homestay.

Day 6: Departure

Today we are free at our leisure until the time we come back to the airport for our flight to home.