Evening Buffet and Apsara Dance in Siem Reap

This is a 3-hour experience in Siem Reap, built around Siem Reap. It is run by Angkor Pro Travel, an operator we book with directly rather than through a reseller, which is why we can hold your place with them before we treat your booking as final.

Apsara dance takes its name and its poses from the celestial dancers carved in their thousands on the Angkor walls, and the classical form was rebuilt after the Khmer Rouge years from the handful of teachers who survived. The hand positions are a fixed vocabulary, each one a meaning, and a trained dancer's fingers bend back further than looks possible because the training starts in childhood. Most Siem Reap shows come with a buffet; the serious performances are shorter and ticketed on their own. Phare, the Cambodian circus, is a different thing altogether, a school in Battambang that takes children from hard backgrounds and stages modern acrobatic theatre about Cambodian life.

The price covers 1. Fixed-time Apsara dance performance, 2. Service fees and taxes, 3. Appointment fee and 4. Social media photography opportunities. It does not cover 1. Alcohol and beverage expenses, 2. All personal expenses and any costs not mentioned in the and 3. Gratuity, 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.