Cambodia Cycling Tour 5 days: Journey from Phnom Penh to Siem Reap

Pick up at your hotel at 8:00 AM in Phnom Penh and we head north along National Road No. 4 for about 20 kilometers before we reach Bekchan. We’ll start our cycling trip on an unpaved road to Phnom Chetarest and the ancient capital Oudong. Oudong Moutains is still home to many of the old Royal Palaces. We pay a visit by climbing up over 500 steps, leading to a fairly newly built temple. The views from the summit of the surrounding countryside are impressive and worth the climb. Lunch will be served at a local restaurant before we continue on the back roads to Kampong Chhnang. . It is famous for its beautiful landscape and local villages which produce pottery in the midst of the rice fields. Learn how the community makes pottery the traditional way and observe how sugar is collected from the sugar palm trees. It is all about the way locals get by in their day to day activities. Some parts of the route will be completed by van. Check in hotel and have dinner at local restaurant. Overnight in Kampong Chnang
 

Breakfast served at our hotel before we head to our riding point by van and proceed to cycle from Moung Ruessie. Pay a visit to the high school of Moung Ruessie and learn about Cambodia Education system in deep. Continue our back road of cycling to Koas Krala and Phnum Thippadei, lots of interesting stops to visit the daily activities of local people en route. Keep cycling until we got to Wat Koun Khlong where we will get on our vehicle for our transfer to Battambang. Overnight at the hotel in Battambang
 

Today start our cycling tour from our hotel to Phnum Thmei, and take a short break at Ang Kamping Poy which is the manmade lake. Then continue to ride through this back road to view a very beautiful scenery of mountains, countryside of Battambang Province until we reach to Bavel district to get on our vehicle and transfer to Siem Reap.
 

Breakfast served at the local restaurant before start to transfer for 45km to the riding point at Svay Check. Cycle on back road to see the daily lives activities of local Cambodian people living near to Thailand border. We then end our cycling in Banteay Chhmar temple, one of Cambodia’s most important and least understood temples from the Angkorian period. The temple complex, its moat, baray and surrounding unspoilt environment comprises a unique archaeological site and a vital link in Cambodia’s cultural heritage. For these reasons, it is now one of Cambodia’s top priorities for inscription as a UNESCO World Heritage site. Its remoteness from Angkor Wat, in part, explains the lack of in-depth documentation and study of the temple.  After visit the temple of Banteay Chhmar we will have dinner and overnight with local family.
 

Today you have a short drive to the starting point of cycling.  We cycle through the rice paddies from Svay Check to Phnom Srok. En route you have chance to observe not only the rice paddies but also a lot of different remote villages, schools, pagodas. Stop for lunch at Ang Trapaeng Thmor which is one of the birding destinations in Cambodia, sometime we can see the birds as well. Visit to Phnom Srok Village where a lot of families doing weaving at home, proceed to Siem Reap by van.