OPTIONS that invite you to explore more while you are in Cambodia
OPTIONS for Angkor Temples
Travel with our Artist
Meet up at the airport and travel as a group with our artist who "knows the ropes" about flight connections and navigating his way through customs and other controls. A more relaxed way to travel. You must be able to manage your own luggage.
Our artist is planning to depart from Melbourne on Saturday, 17 October 2020 with Vietnam Airlines.
The flight is from Melbourne to Ho Chi Min, Vietnam (in transit) transfer to your connecting flight to Siem Reap. Contact us for details.
Meet up at the airport and travel as a group with our artist who "knows the ropes" about flight connections and navigating his way through customs and other controls. A more relaxed way to travel. You must be able to manage your own luggage.
Our artist is planning to depart from Melbourne on Saturday, 17 October 2020 with Vietnam Airlines.
The flight is from Melbourne to Ho Chi Min, Vietnam (in transit) transfer to your connecting flight to Siem Reap. Contact us for details.
Book Extra Nights
Arriving early or staying on for a few more days? Book extra nights at our preferred rates before you leave.
Book Extra nights now >
Arriving early or staying on for a few more days? Book extra nights at our preferred rates before you leave.
Book Extra nights now >
Night Life Dining & Street Food Adventure
A culinary night to experience a variety of the more interesting restaurants and quirky cocktail bars in and around the bright lights and gloomy alleyways of the party streets of Siem Reap. Variety is the key so we can start with a Street Food Tour to set the mood and move on to sample specialty dishes at one of our favorite dining venues. To take in the night life we finish in a late night cocktail bar.
Arty, interesting, Khmer fusion and quirky venues have an appeal for us. Our evening Food Trails are a fantastic way to savor some of Siem Reap's more elegant and eclectic cuisines.
$85 per person. Minimum 2 to 8 persons. A great night out that is a popular food and entertainment styled evening.
A culinary night to experience a variety of the more interesting restaurants and quirky cocktail bars in and around the bright lights and gloomy alleyways of the party streets of Siem Reap. Variety is the key so we can start with a Street Food Tour to set the mood and move on to sample specialty dishes at one of our favorite dining venues. To take in the night life we finish in a late night cocktail bar.
Arty, interesting, Khmer fusion and quirky venues have an appeal for us. Our evening Food Trails are a fantastic way to savor some of Siem Reap's more elegant and eclectic cuisines.
$85 per person. Minimum 2 to 8 persons. A great night out that is a popular food and entertainment styled evening.
Interesting and Unusual Temples
There are thousands of temples in and around Siem Reap and we visit the main ones in our itinerary. You can easily be "templed out" but many of us wish we had spent more time on some of the more unusual and unique ones we may have heard about.
We offer several extra special temples experiences that you may like to consider for your spare time on our Painting Holiday.
Bookings are essential.
Banteay Srei - The Petite, Pink Sandstone Women's Temple
• The Women's Temple is known for its intricate "3D"carvings and pink sandstone. Stop at a local village to see palm sugar produced in the traditional fashion. A great sketching and drawing opportunity or just wander about, well worth the visit.
$65 per person Minimum 2 persons Temple Pass required. Optional Temple guide $35
Beng Melea Jungle Temple Ruins
• Beng Melea - Jungle temple ruins as it was found in the mid 1800's by the french explorers survives today with minimal restoration.
It is set in what was a jungle clearing. This site has been included in many movies and famously, Tomb Raider with Angelina Jolie.
$85 per person. Minimum 2 persons. Temple Pass required. Optional Temple Guide $35
There are thousands of temples in and around Siem Reap and we visit the main ones in our itinerary. You can easily be "templed out" but many of us wish we had spent more time on some of the more unusual and unique ones we may have heard about.
We offer several extra special temples experiences that you may like to consider for your spare time on our Painting Holiday.
Bookings are essential.
Banteay Srei - The Petite, Pink Sandstone Women's Temple
• The Women's Temple is known for its intricate "3D"carvings and pink sandstone. Stop at a local village to see palm sugar produced in the traditional fashion. A great sketching and drawing opportunity or just wander about, well worth the visit.
$65 per person Minimum 2 persons Temple Pass required. Optional Temple guide $35
Beng Melea Jungle Temple Ruins
• Beng Melea - Jungle temple ruins as it was found in the mid 1800's by the french explorers survives today with minimal restoration.
It is set in what was a jungle clearing. This site has been included in many movies and famously, Tomb Raider with Angelina Jolie.
$85 per person. Minimum 2 persons. Temple Pass required. Optional Temple Guide $35
Cooks in Tuk Tuks Master Class in Khmer Cooking
We pick you up at your hotel and start with a local market visit to experience the energy of the local people doing business, shopping and buying food. Tour the food stalls with our chef looking at the interesting herbs, seasonal fruits and vegetables then return to our kitchen where you will cut, chop, mix and stir our selected Khmer traditional dishes.
An example is...
• Aromatic lightly spiced Banana Flower Salad
• Creamy Fish Amok with a rice pyramid
• Traditional Khmer dessert of Sago, Pumpkin and Coconut milk.
(Menus are subject to change based on seasonal ingredients)
There is tea break mid class and we sit down for luncheon and enjoy the fruits of our labour at 1:00pm.
The class begins at 9.30am $59 per person
(*Vegetarians are catered for if the Chef is advised prior to the class)
We pick you up at your hotel and start with a local market visit to experience the energy of the local people doing business, shopping and buying food. Tour the food stalls with our chef looking at the interesting herbs, seasonal fruits and vegetables then return to our kitchen where you will cut, chop, mix and stir our selected Khmer traditional dishes.
An example is...
• Aromatic lightly spiced Banana Flower Salad
• Creamy Fish Amok with a rice pyramid
• Traditional Khmer dessert of Sago, Pumpkin and Coconut milk.
(Menus are subject to change based on seasonal ingredients)
There is tea break mid class and we sit down for luncheon and enjoy the fruits of our labour at 1:00pm.
The class begins at 9.30am $59 per person
(*Vegetarians are catered for if the Chef is advised prior to the class)