Battambang: Authentic Rural Life and Ancient Temples Tour in Siem Reap

A full-day experience in Siem Reap. The operator sums it up as visit a traditional blacksmith to see khmer tool making. The price covers Bottled waters, Donation and Live guide. It does not cover lunch, personal expenses and bamboo train ticket, so budget for those separately. Everything included is listed in full on this page; if something is not on that list, assume it is not in the price. Battambang is Cambodia's second city and the calmest of them, a riverside town of French shophouses about three hours from Siem Reap. The bamboo train, the norry, is a bamboo platform on wheels driven by a small motor down a single track; when two meet, the lighter one is lifted off the rails by hand. The original line at O Dambong was replaced by a purpose-built tourist track at Banan. At dusk, millions of wrinkle-lipped bats stream out of a cliff cave at Phnom Sampeau for about half an hour in an unbroken ribbon, and the same hill carries a killing-cave memorial from the Khmer Rouge years. This one is priced for the group rather than per head: 1 traveller costs $111 and 8 costs $130, so the more of you there are the less each of you pays. Adventure Travel Co. runs it. We book with them directly, so the guide who meets you works for the operator rather than for a reseller.