How many days do you need in Siem Reap?
Three days. That is the length of the itinerary we built for Siem Reap.
Here is what each day holds. Every stop below carries its time, and every gap says how to get to the next stop, with the walk or drive time wherever both stops are mapped.
Siem Reap · 3 days Cambodia
Best time: November to February for dry, cooler days.
The small circuitDay 1
⛩️5:30 AMAngkor Wat at sunrise
The largest religious monument in the world, approached along the western causeway as the towers come up out of the dark.
🚗 ~7 min · 2.1 mi
📍9:30 AMAngkor Thom and the Bayon
The walled royal city, entered through a gate lined with stone figures, with the Bayon’s serene carved faces at its centre.
🚗 ~7 min · 2.1 mi
📍3:00 PMTa Prohm
The temple left partly to the forest, with silk-cotton roots grown through and over the galleries.
The outer templesDay 2
📍8:00 AMBanteay Srei
A small tenth-century temple in pink sandstone, twenty-five kilometres out, with the finest surviving carving at Angkor.
🚗 ~39 min · 11 mi
📍12:00 PMPreah Khan
A large flat monastic complex, less restored and much quieter, with corridors narrowing as you walk inward.
🚗 ~8 min · 2.3 mi
📍4:30 PMPre Rup
A steep laterite temple-mountain that catches the late light, and a calmer sunset spot than the usual hill.
The lake and townDay 3
📍8:30 AMTonle Sap floating villages
The great lake south of town, with stilt and floating settlements that rise and fall with a water level that swings several metres a year.
🚗 ~40 min · 12 mi
🖼️2:00 PMAngkor National Museum
Context for what you have walked through: the Khmer empire, its kings, and a gallery of a thousand Buddha images.
🚶 ~25 min · 🚗 ~3 min · 0.9 mi
⛴️6:00 PMOld Market and the riverside
The covered market and the lanes around it, then the river path once the heat drops.
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