Following on from a recent article in the travel section of the Guardian newspaper, What’s New in Cambodia?, we at Experience Travel have produced a new itinerary entitled Cambodia’s North East, a tour which offers the more adventurous traveller a fantastic opportunity to explore this hidden gem.
Close to the Laos border, Ratanakiri is a beautifully remote and untouched region of South East Asia, a million miles from the tourists at Angkor Wat and the noise and pollution of Bangkok.
The tour starts with a couple of days touring the spectacular Angkor temples. From there you get completely off the tourist trail, visiting pre-Angkorian ruins in Kampong Thom and Kampong Cham, taking a boat trip to spot Irrawaddy dolphins in the Mekong River, before spending a few nights in the remote market town of Ban Lung in the forests of Ratanakiri.
The tour finishes with a couple of nights in Phnom Penh.
For those who have already visited the Angkor Temples, this itinerary can be reduced by removing Siem Reap. While anyone with a few extra days to spare can extend the tour with a stay on the south coast or a trip down the Mekong River and into Vietnam.
Along with this new tour we have recently revamped and updated all of our Cambodian itineraries. We at Experience Travel believe that there is so much more to Cambodia than the temples of Angkor, as breathtaking as they are, and think that these itineraries show that. Please get in touch if you would like a personal consultation to create your perfect tailor made tour.
P.S. In the same section of the Guardian there was also an article highlighting Asia’s new backpacking hotspots, including both Battambang in Cambodia and Phu Quoc in Vietnam. I bring this to your attention because, after years of racking my brain, it provided a fantastic description of the wonderfully quirky Bamboo Train in Battambang – a flat, homemade bamboo platform placed on rail wheels and then powered by an outboard motor (so simple that I wonder how it took me so long!).’ A late afternoon ride on the train followed by a picnic with the sun seting over the paddy fields that surround the town, is a truly unique experience.
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